Joni Mitchell’s ability to stay on pitch is out of this world.

@mwhite6522

7 ай бұрын

Notice before she starts singing she walks over and asks Brecker to play a B-flat.

@brentnichols3071

6 ай бұрын

Her being Joni Mitchell nonwithstanding, she does get a pitch from Michael and she wrote the song. Being built different is a major advantage she has.

I had the great pleasure of doing the sheet music arrangement for this song when I was working at Warner Bros. Music in NYC in the 70's. What a challenge! Had to slow it way down to get Jaco's notes accurate, but then, in those pre-digital days, it was so low it was impossible to hear the notes accurately. So then we had to speed it up. What a great album (Mingus).

@twangbarfly

9 жыл бұрын

GREAT story!!!!

@traciiprada

7 жыл бұрын

Hi donald d you remember who were in charge of horns section?

@JasperGS

7 жыл бұрын

LuisPrada17 I read somewhere jaco wrote the horns arrangement in s few minutes before rehearsal

@rangjungyeshe

6 жыл бұрын

That was Jaco too

@jsilence418

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing i often wondered about those brilliant people behind the scenes .

This might be my favorite performance of anything ever. Jaco dropping the walkingest bass line of all time but not forgetting to mess with Brecker by feeding him harmonic gore to try to solo over. I'm not surprised Michael gave Jaco the cold shoulder afterward but it was iconic so what are you gonna do.

All too wonderful, let’s not forget the outstanding Michael Brecker (r.i.p)

@dwftube

3 жыл бұрын

Too young - like so many of the greats - Jaco included. :(

@raymondchollet3199

3 жыл бұрын

What an incredible presence in my life. Both of them.

@Poeme340

3 жыл бұрын

When Michael and Jaco first blow in after Joni’s intro it is just pure laser-like genius.👍

What an incredible vocalist she is !!!

I can't get enough of the bass line that starts at 3:38. Gives me goosebumps every single time. RIP Jaco.

@Dmdmello

6 жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ he turns into fuckin metronome

@barkofink

4 жыл бұрын

Jaco's gimmick _Havona_ like

@fredoaksmusicheavyonthebas6010

2 жыл бұрын

Stripped it down bare bones and seen what Dude could do with it then gives him the dumb a** look at the end of the song

@richardlemrise496

Жыл бұрын

3:58

@stephensticht

Жыл бұрын

mother fuck Jaco had it there @ 3:38, glad I saw your comment. He used to come into the music store I did Saturdays at. Oakland Park, Fla. Amazing bass player and composer

Joni and Jaco - perfect together. One of the greatest live albums of all times.

@Antoniettacuo

3 жыл бұрын

Vero

@kumoyuki

7 ай бұрын

no doubt

I’m loving this Joni is a multi talented singer crossing all genre . This combination of Jazz musicians and the icing on the cake JACO!

Joni Mitchell must be considered to be amongst the very elite in jazz vocals. Any singer will tell you how difficult it is to sing this; what unbelievable control you have to have. And that bass line...what can one say. Pastorius was at the very top of his profession. Great song, great band. Thanks to all involved.

@BijahD

7 ай бұрын

Right - Joni and Jaco could not get better.....insane performance

@micahjared8082

5 ай бұрын

Jaco was from the planet Pastyourassandwayoveryourhead. Bass God sent from the Heavens. As we say on planet Earth ; RIP Jaco. Truth is Jaco didnt die. He was born a Myth and Legend. It was Destiny. Cheers Brother

Jaco was one of the most punk rock things to ever happen to jazz

@G8GT364CI

3 жыл бұрын

Is that an insult or a compliment?

@johnmorrison8618

3 жыл бұрын

@@G8GT364CI both

@cheapmusicgear

3 жыл бұрын

@@G8GT364CI if you’re a purist who likes the smell of their own farts a lot, sure it could be an insult. I personally think Jaco played a big role in the progression of popular music in general.

@G8GT364CI

3 жыл бұрын

@@cheapmusicgear You sound kind of dumb, I don't argue with people who use infantile terms.

@cheapmusicgear

3 жыл бұрын

@@G8GT364CI I would rather sound dumb than sound pompous

Wow,, what a band! The bit where Jaco, Don and Mike start going for it, the visuals start and I'm screaming 'show the fucking musicians!!

@Kinsale1333

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I know what you mean. But it is Joni's music and she had the right to present it the way she wanted. But she must have that live footage you reference someplace in her personal archive. I'd give my right arm to see it.

@BlackWhirlies

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kinsale1333 Totally agree!

@mcnowski

3 жыл бұрын

Did you notice at the end the sax player shakes his head at Jaco for show boating over his Sax solo?? hallarious.

@joannalewis5279

5 ай бұрын

This!!!

Super, great live. I love Joni, Jaco, Don, Pat and Michael.

This record is absurdly brilliant: the musicians, the interplay, Joni´s voice, the setlist... Since long ago I´m in love with Joni´s music. I have 120+ Joni´s tracks in my smartphone: superlative, mesmerizing, heart-touching!

That's just an amazing amount of talent on one stage. Have to listen a second time to appreciate how great Brecker is as well.

@bivmvideo

2 жыл бұрын

Smae here! had to pay it twice. Actually 4, been here b4.

@peterbustin2683

Жыл бұрын

Only a second time ?!

WOW, I only "stumbled" over this one just now, almost 13 years after the upload......and I'm stunned ! What a true musical gem this is. Everything in it is great, it all comes together so well.

I was last here two years ago. My love for this woman remains unabated.

Superb. Jaco is obviously amazing. Joni’s vocals here are virtuosity!

I’m not sure where this performance took place, but I saw Joni, Jaco, Michael et al perform this number at the UC Berkeley Jazz Festival in May of ‘79. It’s indelibly etched in my brain as is their rendition of Goodbye Porkpie Hat, and Woodstock.

Amazing, Joni's voice is incredible and pitch perfect and great phrasing, and Jaco is simply amazing.

@Filigraana

2 жыл бұрын

And her lyrics! 🤯

Joni sentirla cantare e suonare con Jaco, un jazz fresco, diverso dal genere di Joni è stata proprio una bella idea, con il sassofono che incalza, che bei ricordi!

2:09 I’ve always loved the psychosis of this jam with those familiar blues changes beneath. Untethered but grounded and familiar. Good pipes too, Joni.

Jaco, the best I ever seen.....And i seen them all. What tone & time.

Jes! Jaco, Joni & MB on top of their game... devastating!

What the FUCK was that? Seriously. The best music ever recorded. In no small way.

@JimGardner

9 жыл бұрын

Kris H. There isn't a single bass player in the world who can deliver a performance like this. He's on fire.

@honkmonky1989

8 жыл бұрын

+Jim Gardner He is on coke too... 1:29 OMG, in another galaxy, far far away.......

it's hard to think of any music I like as much as this. All the musical drivers at work here have my highest regard. Mingus, Joni, Jaco, brecker, and don alias. hat's off to them all.

The way Jaco re-imagined the bass is mind-blowing. No one had even imagined doing that kind of stuff with a bass. I don't know of any other musician doing something similar with any other instrument.

God must be a singing woman! 💖

The famous "Duel" between Jaco and Michael Breaker!

One of the raddest interpretations of the blues ever put on tape. Two absolute titans just going at it, with amazing backup by Don.

I love this music and the whole dvd SHADOWS AND LIGHT

This is one of my favourite Joni and Jaco numbers. I bought the DVD about ten years ago. It always annoyed me that they overlaid stock footage over some of the best bass playing Jaco ever did.

@catalystdrums123

7 жыл бұрын

Its in the DVD like that huh? I always assumed the uploader did that did get past copyright

@hurrapelle6508

7 жыл бұрын

it is unfortunately

@jsamc

6 жыл бұрын

idiots

@TylerMusicBoi

6 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know if they did it on the Laserdisc or VHS versions?

@madddogg7920

6 жыл бұрын

I would much rather watch the band perform. Jaco isn't the only brilliant musician on stage here. I did read that Joni Mitchell hired several members of The Weather Report as her backing band at this time so Jaco and his two bandmates are all very accomplished jazz musicians who are very tight and are very experienced at playing with one another. Showing the band without the overlaid Vegas footage would make for a much better visual presentation.

Jaco and Michael’s look after they finish. #priceless

Joni is such an amazing singer and songwriter. She is the sweetheart of 0ur generation.

I have to agree with the supporters of Jaco here. His playing is thoughtful and well placed. He has good eye contact and synchronization with the skins at the end and plays counterpoint to the vocal very well by playing harmony notes in his walk that are right off the chord and fall in the same structure just about every time.

Joni... one of the best jazz singers EVER!

JACO licks bring tears to me eyes!! HE'S THE BEST EVER!!

Jaco is superb here, like all the others on stage!

Some kind of band. Joni, Pat Matheney, Lyle Mays, Don Alias and Jaco Pastorious. How lucky we all are.

love this alot more than the album version

Si tan sólo toda la gente del mundo pudiera escuchar esto, me parece fantástico, larga vida a la música, larga vida a Jaco, larga vida a el Jazz.

I'm glad you put this video on. I'm a little mad, that I couldn't see Jaco play his parts, while you were showing that "Same ol, Las Vegas strip. Thanks for the post, steevo.

Gigantic Jaco.....Thanks....RIP...Was lucky with one of his shows in 1986 in Bolzano, Italy

This is SO off the Chain!!! Thank you. What a rhythm section!!! OMG, Joni just nails it!

who could have thought a song about playing slot machines could be so badass?

The late great Michael Brecker and Jaco P.....two absolute monsters of jazz. Always missed.

Aint Joni just thebest thing everto come out of Canada 💓

it's just air, they take it and toke it, move it and stroke it... trill, still, sing, pop, vibrate & thrill... as long as they live and after die as long as tape and digital sigh we get to know them man oh my. thank YOU Renato Spallucci

Me criei ouvindo Jaco, e até hoje ele me inspira. Uma das grandes apresentação com Joni Michael.

what an inspired pairing - kindred spirits Joni's superb lively vocals / Jaco's phenom. bass. the greatest !

joni and jaco ... that's the band ... from a to z ... love and paradise ... ure amazing

Great song. I do wish that they hadn't laid the Vegas footage over the band performance, though. Jaco and the rest of the guys are all masters and I would rather watch them play than watch stock footage of Vegas that I can get almost anywhere. I'm not familiar with any of the musicians in this video aside from Joni and Jaco but the way the bass and the sax intertwine with each other is simply brilliant. Awesome stuff.

Aaaaaaaahhhh!!! Calidad!! Las Calidades de aquellos años pioneros!! Tin Navio

3:38 = the greatest showcase of improvisational and musical talent in the history of humanity

How can one not love this women?

The rhythm & the vocals. JONI.

Amazing musicians

Just blow me away!!! Thanks so much for posting!!!

Thank you, Renato. That was absolutely wonderful.

This song reminds me of Novak Djokovich, six time champion of Australian Open tennis match. Nobody can beat him. He's the dry cleaner from Des Moines. He cleans up! Pitching with purpose...... Give it to Joni to describe this type of flamboyant swagger! Money collector...

I so totally agree with the top commentators-- please please Joni- release the unedited footage of this inspired band!!

Well that’s just incredible. Joni and Jaco both. Wow.

i would love to listen to an isolation of just the vocals & bass. The interplay is almost like Bach counterpoint

@MichaelWilliams-hf1ql

7 жыл бұрын

That was the mastery of Jaco Pastorius, the greatest bass player that ever walked the planet, his Fender and Joni's voice are married in the heavens for all time.

@zachariesmith7174

4 жыл бұрын

ahaha I've tought about the same thing: sounds like counterpoint

@dwaynehendricks7842

3 жыл бұрын

Whacha got against Mr. Brecker?

@raymondchollet3199

3 жыл бұрын

Lisrening to jaco since 85. A jimi hendrix of bass. He defined big time bass!

@G8GT364CI

3 жыл бұрын

@@raymondchollet3199 He also defined loud, obnoxious overplaying unfortunately at times too like in this video.

One of my favorite Joni tunes! Great lyrics, great Bass Line and Drums and Sax!

yeah...I saw this show when they were at Red Rocks...probably the best concert I ever saw...and THAT is saying something.

This concert just gather the best of those years and contemporerary jazz: Jaco, Joni, Mchael,Pat.

I can't get enough of it .............

I Love you Joni Joni Mitchell

I had the good fortune to know Jaco and jammed with him once, when I moved from NYC to Ft Lauderdale circa 67, to attend Northeast high school. I had been a drummer in a band, and the culture shock of the clash of 2 cultures, (NYC vs 67 Lauderdale,) made me a depressed 15 year old. The first time I met Jaco I thought, this kid here is the definition of free being. I also noticed how straight he was. The rest of us miscreants were smoking cigarettes, ingesting god knows what, and drinking lots of beer. Not Jaco. Very upset at his death, but appreciate having shared his orbit.

Sadly, they're all gone, except for Joni, herself. Jaco (bass), of course, was the first to go (1987), followed by Don Alias (drums), in 2006, and Michael Brecker (tenor sax) a year later, in 2007. What an incredible noise all three made together here. RIP all.

@CapeBass508

3 жыл бұрын

Pat Metheny is still alive..

@jeffwolinski2659

3 жыл бұрын

And Lyle Mays is gone as well. All of our heroes are leaving us as we get older.

@marshhen

4 ай бұрын

Hey! Pat Metheny is very much alive, come on.

@bangcolt

2 ай бұрын

@@marshhenis Pat Metheny playing on this track?

Jaco Pastorius master !!!!!

Freaking unreal Jaco Pastorius III killing it so ingenious

This is how I want to remember Jaco. Although during that time he had just started to do drugs but I still think he was at his peak/very best musically. So creative with his bass lines, still in shape physically and his technique and sound was just amazing. RIP Jaco...

@christopherking3937

4 жыл бұрын

Johnny5 The intonation on that fretless is frighteningly good. The swing is also something to die for.

I could be wrong..but I've always felt Brecker was kinda pissed with Jaco at the end of the tune..his (mike's) expression is like "man you fuckin' overplay" it's my solo on the outtro..I think Jaco seems to sense this and look's surprised by his (mike's) reaction..

@djmalcoiv

3 жыл бұрын

it is said that jaco was extremely egocentric, he intentionally raised the volume of his amplifiers to make the bass sound stand out over other instruments, even his voice, and it was precisely, supposedly, for this reason that he died, when he wanted to go on stage where santana played, to play the bass, he used to turn up and take the bass from the bassists and play for them.

@NickyBendix

3 жыл бұрын

Agree, and Brecker had good reason to be annoyed,

@samhardingham5591

3 жыл бұрын

He's definitely too loud in this one. I love Jaco but some of his later stuff isn't that great

@WinstonTexas829

3 жыл бұрын

Jaco plays all over everyone else on this tune & right in the frequency range of the singer & sax player. Bad taste & impossible to work with regardless of the genius of the individual.

@samhardingham5591

3 жыл бұрын

@@WinstonTexas829 its not a tune, its his solo

Oh my God the music out there!

hmmm, a couple points. Greatest blues bass line ever played by an electric bassist!!! We can't judge Jaco for his volume on this performance, his level was the decision of the live sound mixing engineer and the mixing engineer responsible for producing this DVD! I don't think brecker shook his head in disgust, it felt more like 'holy F, we just did that at a folk music concert!' That was Awesome! the way Jaco would let those harmonics ring for bars and then drop into the chord change was beyond!

Michael Jordan was the Jaco Pastorious of basketball!

Love Joni, Jaco, Michael and Don. Absurd video editing, as they should have just stuck to filming the artists. Still enjoyable. Massive Talent.

@bmoremike - OMG you're right. Shocking that we don't have these great artists with us anymore...sad..

WOW ! Magnifique et rare ! MERCI ! ! !

Época boa!!!!!

There’s this and then everything else. I heard Prince say Joni was his favorite...that’s enough for me My God is this the summit

Jaco was a massive loss for us all! So sad💔😭🙏🏼

Fantastic!

tears. Joni and Jaco!

Bass players take note. He is THE man.

@drbas81

10 жыл бұрын

"bass player" :D

@GuyOnTheInternet53

8 жыл бұрын

+Jim Gardner bass players need to find their own music, that goes for any musician, there will never be another jaco.

@madddogg7920

6 жыл бұрын

No one will ever replace Jaco but we can all certainly appreciate what he did and learn from him.

@Meddled

4 жыл бұрын

Jim Gardner choose a bright tone and overplay constantly. Got it.

@Thabassmon

3 жыл бұрын

@@Meddled lol

Ufa! Amazing Jaco....

must get me a polyester suit and a kick ass bass, pastorius music personified , like whaaat .

There is way too much to speak about right here. 2 Legends going back to back. You have watch this clip very closely to see what is going on. I witnessed this show and Joni brought these guys together but besides Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays there were no friends aboard. You can see how Jaco challenges the sax player Michael Brecker. There is no love loss, at the end of the piece Jaco turns back to him in acknowledgement but Brecker turns away from him. PRICELESS

@mikearmando

8 жыл бұрын

+JackinTheWoods You are correct I noticed that also. It looked like Michael Brecker was upset at the end of the gig with Jaco. Jaco played great, nothing was going to hold him back. It was up to the rest of the band to respond to his playing.

@tuskedbeast

6 жыл бұрын

When forming the band, Jaco had wanted to ditch Brecker, who was second choice after Wayne Shorter wasn't available.

@jgmiller804

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah there is definitely a moment there at the end where Brecker kind of shakes his head. Hard to know exactly he was disappointed about though

She did this at the Mississippi River Festival on the Campus of Southern Il U. She blew the grounds out this night. So did the Band. Gawd. I think I was around 22 and I am not anymore...

Jaco, my god ... Went so young RIP

Like this has always been amazing beyond words so why did the editor decide to put in B roll of people parking at a casino in the build up to what is probably the best ensemble performance in history?

stellar line-up

3:40 Jaco looking at Brecker like "Hey I am playing the most fuckin perfect on time groovin bass line ever, are you going to play something great or not??"

@ChromaticHarp

3 жыл бұрын

Jaco was WAY OVERPLAYing! Brecker looked PISSEF!

@LageYouTube

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChromaticHarp Yeah, Jaco sounded amazing though

Jaco was a stud... too good for this world

I love how when she sings without a guitar she plays anyway...Jaco Baby!

This is amazing.

@kushking420

7 жыл бұрын

Groovy as Fuck.

HOT!!! SURPRISED THE BAND CATCK ON FIRE 🔥❤️

top song top musicians great scat line

Perfecta combinacion!!!,..

4:03 Always wondered if Michael Brecker was giving crap to Jaco or not for that last bass part. Obviously Jaco didn't give a shit lol cool song