As sideman, bandleader or composer, Jaco Pastorius is one of those rare players who can legitimately be said to have revolutionized their instrument. With his lyrical, melodic fretless work, growling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few singer-songwriters have been quite so respected and revered by their peers as Joni Mitchell. David Crosby called Mitchell ...

“Some people get intimidated by jazz,” Joni Mitchell told Rolling Stone‘s Cameron Crowe in the summer of 1979. “It’s like higher mathematics to them.” Still, the singer-songwriter wasn’t letting that ...

Jaco Pastorius, the late jazz bassist who was a member of Weather Report from 1976 to 1981, a player on multiple Joni Mitchell albums and more, was given the documentary treatment this year with Jaco, ...

Singer Christine Tobin guides Alyn Shipton through the jazz-oriented repertoire of Joni Mitchell, including her work with Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius and Herbie Hancock. Show more Singer Christine ...

As a young woman growing up in Canada, Joni Mitchell was fond of American popular music and bought records whenever she could afford them. She would sometimes swap painting jobs for jazz albums. She ...

Everyone has albums they come back to again and again, albums they would take to their proverbial desert island. Such albums have made a deep connection to the heart, and to life experience, sometimes ...

Jaco Pastorius is dead. I mean no disrespect by this statement. I point here to the lasting condition of the departed bassist neither to celebrate his birthday nor to lament his death anniversary.

The Jaco material spans his solo career, his work with Weather Report and collaborations with some of music's biggest names like Joni Mitchell and Herbie Hancock. Also featured are two interpretations ...