Jaco Experience
... As talented as these greats were and remain, none were able to link with my creative soul in the way that Jaco Pastorious did. I still remember my first taste of Jaco. ... The lead trumpet player had been especially impressed with a solo I’d taken on bass, and he said “Yeah, you’ve definitely got some Jaco in ya”. ... “You don’t know Jaco? ... ) This “Jaco” had literally taken the limits of his expressional medium and exponentially stretched them, which was something that I’d previously had no concept of. ... And the reason is that my limited concept to approaching the function and expression therein of the bass does not begin to compare to what it became through the influence of Jaco Pastorius.