While the electric bass guitar was used intermittently in jazz as early as 1951, beginning in the 1970s bassist Bob Cranshaw, playing with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and fusion pioneers Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke began to commonly substitute the bass guitar for the upright bass.

His replacement was Jaco Pastorius, a virtuoso fretless bass guitarist from Florida who had been in touch with Zawinul for several years, and who came in to play on " Cannon Ball " and his own composition " Barbary Coast ".

Thompson returned for the final Black Market sessions, but left again after failing to gel as a rhythm section with Pastorius ( whose style was much busier than that of Johnson ).

By now Weather Report was a quartet of Zawinul, Shorter, Pastorius and Erskine and ( for the first time ) had dispensed with the auxiliary percussionist role which had been integral since the band's inception.

Another featured performance was by the Trio of Doom ( in which Pastorius played alongside John McLaughlin and Tony Williams ).

By now, Pastorius was displaying signs of the mental instability and substance abuse problems which would ultimately wreck his career, and the close relationship between him and Zawinul was becoming strained as Zawinul tired of Pastorius ' showmanship onstage ( beginning to feel that it detracted from the music ).

Pastorius was by now thoroughly frustrated with Zawinul's approach, especially now that the keyboard player had increasingly taken control of basslines by both writing them out for Pastorius to play from manuscript and by also playing or doubling most of them on his ARP Quadra synthesizer.

By late 1981 Pastorius was putting together the Word of Mouth Big Band ( which included Erskine ) for concert dates in Japan, on the assumption that 1982 would be a Weather Report rest year.

He was predeceased by mid-period group bass player Jaco Pastorius, who died on September 21, 1987 following a fatal beating in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The first major emigration of Germans to America resulted in the founding of the Borough of Germantown in northwest Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania on October 6, 1683 by a group of settlers organized by Francis Daniel Pastorius, an agent for a land purchasing company based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and was composed largely of Quakers and Mennonites from the Rhineland.

Early in his career, Miller was accused of being simply imitative of Pastorius, but has since more fully integrated the latter's methodology into his own sound.

Jaco Pastorius, an innovative fretless electric bass player, joined the group in 1976 on the album Black Market, was co-producer ( with Zawinul ) on 1977's Heavy Weather, and is prominently featured on the 1979 live recording 8: 30.

" Francis Daniel Pastorius was the first bailiff.

The village of Chestnut Hill was part of the German Township laid out by Francis Daniel Pastorius and came to include the settlements originally known as Sommerhausen and Crefeld, as well as part of Cresheim.

Bassist Jaco Pastorius was probably the most famous user of Acoustic bass amplifiers, using two 360 / 361 units onstage.

The project had been aborted due to conflicts between Williams and Pastorius as well as what was at the time a mutual dissatisfaction with the results of their performance.

Word of Mouth was the second album by Jaco Pastorius, released in 1981 while the bassist was a member of Weather Report, and also the name of a big band group that Pastorius assembled and with whom he toured from 1981 to 1986.

Pat Metheny also has released notable solo, trio, quartet and duet recordings with musicians such as Jim Hall, Dave Holland, Roy Haynes, Toninho Horta, Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Pedro Aznar, Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Haden, John Scofield, Jack DeJohnette, Herbie Hancock, Bill Stewart, Ornette Coleman, Brad Mehldau, Joni Mitchell and many others.

1979 also saw the formation of the very short-lived Trio of Doom, consisting of McLaughlin with Jaco Pastorius ( bass ) and Tony Williams ( drums ).

McLaughlin also remastered and released a shelved 1980 project called The Trio of Doom, featuring jazz / fusion luminaries Jaco Pastorius and Tony Williams.

), wrote an analytical teaching book on Jaco Pastorius ' playing and also plays the Chapman Stick

He has also authored four books, " Music Theory for Bassists ", " Dictionary Of Bass Grooves ", " Rock Bass ", and " A Portrait of Jaco: The Solos Collection " ( a book of transcriptions of Jaco Pastorius ' bass solos ) for the Hal Leonard Corporation.

A late 70s jazz fusion trio of John McLaughlin ( guitar ) Jaco Pastorius ( bass ) and Tony Williams ( drums ) unashamedly returned to the original concept of the power trio with their short-lived " Trio of Doom " album.

In 1979 he formed a short-lived funk fusion power trio named the Trio of Doom with Tony Williams on drums and Jaco Pastorius on bass.

* Jaco Pastorius – Electric bass on all tracks except " Rumba Mamá ", mandocello on " Birdland " and " The Juggler ", vocals on " Birdland ", drums on " Teen Town ", steel drums on " Palladíum "

Jaco Pastorius overdubbed a mandocello on the Weather Report hit " Birdland.

In 1974 he made his recording debut on two sessions for pianist Paul Bley's and Carol Goss ' Improvising Artists label, along with fretless electric bassist Jaco Pastorius.

Covers have been recorded by such artists as Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Pat Metheny, Buddy Rich, Jaco Pastorius, Mike Stern, Greg Howe, Tommy Flanagan ( who played on the original recording ), McCoy Tyner, Kenny Werner, Kenny Garrett, Woody Herman, New York Voices, and Taylor Eigsti, Gary Bartz.

Zawinul and Shorter had assumed that Chester Thompson would be departing alongside his friend Johnson, and for the second set of sessions they replaced him ( on Jaco Pastorius ' recommendation ) with the former Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer Narada Michael Walden.

The studio sessions made use of a variety of drummers – Pastorius played the kit on two tracks and further contributions came from Tony Williams, Steve Gadd, and Peter Erskine ( the latter an ex-Stan Kenton / Maynard Ferguson drummer recruited to the project by Pastorius ).

* " Continuum " ( song ), a song by Jaco Pastorius released on his self titled album, August 1976

* Jaco Pastorius ( 1983 ),

John Scofield ( born December 26, 1951, Dayton, Ohio ), often referred to as " Sco ", is an American jazz-rock guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham, Medeski Martin & Wood, George Duke, Jaco Pastorius, John Mayer, and many other well-known artists.

* Joachim Pastorius ( 1611 – 1681 ), historian

Influences for Palladino for bass guitar include The Shadows Jet Harris ; Motown bassist James Jamerson ; Stevie Wonder ’ s keyboard-bass, jazz innovator Jaco Pastorius ; British folk / rock upright bassist Danny Thompson ; Norman Watt-Roy ( of Ian Dury & the Blockheads ); Larry Graham ; Michael Henderson ; Bootsy Collins ; Paul Jackson ; Anthony Jackson ; Doug Rauch ( of Carly Simon and Santana ), and Billy Cobham.

Heavy metal bass players such as Geezer Butler ( Black Sabbath ), Alex Webster ( Cannibal Corpse ), Cliff Burton ( Metallica ), jazz fusion bassist Jaco Pastorius ( Weather Report ), and Les Claypool ( Primus, Blind Illusion ) used chime-like harmonics and rapid plucking techniques in their bass solos.

* Jaco Pastorius: Jaco Pastorius ( Sony, 1975 ), Word of Mouth ( Warner, 1981 )

Other notable individuals are author Jean M. Auel, historian Max Dimont, politician Emil Hurja, guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, U. S. Communist Party leader Gus Hall ( originally Arvo Gustav Halberg ), mathematician Lars Ahlfors, musicians Dave Mustaine and Jaco Pastorius, computer scientists Linus Torvalds and Alfred Aho, co-founder of Apple Mike Markkula, astronaut Timothy L. Kopra, officer Larry Thorne, musician Einar Aaron Swan, ice hockey player Matt Niskanen and serial killer Aileen Wuornos.

* Barbary Coast ( composition ), an instrumental composition by Jaco Pastorius, which was his first work as a member of Weather Report.

These included: Al Anderson ( Bob Marley & The Wailers ), Bob Berg, South African pianist Dollar Brand ( Abdullah Ibrahim ), Ron Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Mark Gray, Art Gore, Herbie Hancock, Carter Jefferson, Kraig Kilby ( The Whispers, Etta James ), Geoff Lee, Raphe Malik, Rene McLean, Bob Mintzer, Nobuku Miyamoto, Jaco Pastorius, Sun Ra, Dewey Redman, Sam Rivers, Lady Jane Robertson, Glenn Spearman, Cecil Taylor, Harry Whitaker, Benny Yee ; as well as New York-based Japanese expatriates, acoustic double bassist and Rising Sun group leader Teruo Nakamura, pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, drummer Keiji Kishida, electric jazz guitarist Shiro Mori, trumpeter Shunzo Ono, percussionist Nobu Urushiyama, electric guitarist Masuo Yoshiyaki, and trumpeter Terumasa Hino.

At that time, he played with Jaco Pastorius ( his main influence ), Mike Stern and Belgian jazzmen like Toots Thielemans, Ivan Paduart, Steve Houben, Philip Catherine and Pierre Van Dormael.

Mary, 16 years James's junior, came from an early-immigrated German family: by tradition, her ancestors had been closely associated with Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germantown ( now part of Philadelphia ), the first permanent German settlement in Pennsylvania.

After studying piano as a child ( starting when he was five years old ), he began as a teenager to perform with musicians such as Mark Murphy and Jaco Pastorius.

* Jaco Pastorius ( 1951 – 1987 ), a notable jazz bassist

* Jaco ( album ), the unofficial title of the Pastorius / Metheny / Ditmas / Bley album

In the 1970s he made first solo recordings and collaborated with Elvin Jones ( 1975, 1978 ), Jaco Pastorius and Alphonse Mouzon ( 1976 ), John Surman, Barre Phillips and Stu Martin ( 1977 ) and others.