(JazzPlanet) Jaco Pastorius - The Birthday Concert (Eac Flac Cue)

Jaco Pastorius - The Birthday Concert









Artist: Jaco Pastorius
Title Of Album: The Birthday Concert
Label Warner Bros.
Recorded live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1981
Release Date Sep 26, 1995
Genre Jazz
Style: Jazz/Fusion
Source: Original CD
Size Torrent: 462 Mb

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Tracklist

1. Soul Intro/ The Chitken (8:00)
2. Continuum (2:34)
3. Invitation (17:43)
4. Three Views Of A Secret (5:56)
5. Liberty City (8:11)
6. Punk Jazz (4:35)
7. Happy Birthday (1:48)
8. Rexa (10:36)
9. Domingo (5:39)
10. Band Intros (2:37)
11. Amerika (1:43)

Personel

* Jaco Pastorius – Bass
* Don Alias – Congas
* Dave Bargeron – Trombone, Tuba
* Dan Bonsanti – Saxophone, Woodwind
* Michael Brecker – Sax (Tenor)
* Randy Emerick – Sax (Baritone)
* Peter Erskine – Drums, Liner Notes
* Kenneth Faulk – Trumpet
* Russ Freeland – Trombone
* Peter Gordon – French Horn
* Peter Graves – Trombone (Bass)
* Mike Katz – Trombone
* Gary Lindsay – Saxophone, Woodwind
* Bob Mintzer – Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
* Othello Molineaux – Drums (Steel)
* Brett Murphey – Trumpet
* Brian O'Flaherty – Trumpet
* Jerry Peel – French Horn
* Oscar Salas – Percussion


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review

After Jaco’s tragic death, the market was flooded with posthumous releases. Most of them were pretty terrible. The Birthday Concert (issued on the Warner Brothers label) is a notable exception.

To a large degree, The Birthday Concert duplicates the set list of Invitation, the official live set that was put out while Jaco was still alive, but The Birthday Concert is superior in pretty much every way.

There are a number of reasons for that. For one thing, the material is still fresh. The Birthday Concert even predates Jaco’s classic studio date, Word of Mouth. Jaco was young, playing his best, and obviously enthusiastic about his new material. And plus, it was his birthday.

On The Birthday Concert, the main soloist is tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker, and he’s allowed to blow like crazy, to the extent that he’s almost coheadlining the concert.

Brecker’s most incredible feature is Invitation, the Bronislau Kaper standard, treated to Jaco’s lean and awesome arrangement for quintet: besides Jaco and Brecker, the remaining members of the quintet are Peter Erskine on drums, Don Alias on congas, and Bobby Mintzer, also on tenor. Brecker smokes on Invitation, as does the rest of the band. The greatest treat for me is listening to the interaction between Brecker and Jaco, unique in Jaco’s catalog and indeed in music history. For me, this is the best version of Invitation I’ve ever heard, by a long stretch.

Brecker also shines on The Chicken, written by Pee Wee Ellis, the hornman with James Brown. The intro could have been used as opening music for the old Saturday Night Live show, if you know what I mean. It’s a pure New York soul type of arrangement. One thing that distinguishes this version from the one on Jaco’s live album Invitation is the exuberance of the performance. The other is Brecker’s solo. It’s got the expected soul, but Brecker goes the extra mile, turning the tune inside out with his quest to see how much harmonic theory he can cram into his performance. It’s a treat.

The other highlight is Punk Jazz, which was originally covered on the Weather Report date Mr. Gone. Zawinul cheesed up Jaco’s composition with synths and didn’t allow Shorter any amount of solo space. It was a waste of a good tune. That injustice is redressed on The Birthday Concert. Thanks to Jaco’s astute arrangement, you can now enjoy the brass flavors and the way the interior harmonic passing tones move in unpredictable and delightful ways.

There are big band versions of Three Views of A Secret and Liberty City on The Birthday Concert that don’t really add much to the perfection of the ones contained on Jaco’s Word of Mouth release, but they’re still wonderful, and it’s fun to hear them live, with Michael Brecker once again featured on tenor sax.

For fans of Jaco, it’s interesting to listen to Domingo, which was obviously inspired by the big band charts of Stan Kenton. You can understand why Jaco left this tune off the Word of Mouth and Invitation albums. It’s not his strongest work as an arranger. Also, it belongs to the past, and Jaco was really all about innovating in the present and dragging the past into the future, as he did on his solo versions of Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy, Bird’s Donna Lee, and The Beatles’ Blackbird.

I won’t lie to you. There’s some filler on The Birthday Concert, but you know what? There is so much strong material here, it’s more than worth the price of the CD.