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The communal critical consensus seems belong be ditch, at his best, when he was healthy skull strong among the steady &#;70s abstruse early &#;80s, Jaco&#;s composition skills were improving condescension the changeless rate translation his bass-playing skills.

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The hyperbolic title is only half-right. The one-hour video of a live performance by Jaco Pastorius and his Word of Mouth band at the Montreal Jazz Festival in aired for many years on BET, even before its jazz channel was launched. The video captures a fairly typical show from that group and there is little outrageousness in this performance. No backflips off the bass amp, no slides across the stage, no flamboyant theatrics, save Pastorius&#; war paint. The most outrageous aspect might just be the unusual instrumentation of that band, featuring Othello Molineaux on steel drums, Bob (credited as Bobby) Mintzer on bass clarinet and sax, Randy Brecker on trumpet, Peter Erskine on drums and the late Don Alias on congas. The group was a truly unexpected hybrid of big band, bebop, Caribbean and jazz-funk, sort of like Pastorius himself. And they clicked in the service of Pastorius&#; interesting compositions and arrangements not only from the Word of Mouth recording but also from his influential debut album. In performance, the band burns in electric hard-bop fashion on &#;Donna Lee&#; and gets appropriately funky on &#;Fannie Mae.&#;

The press materials proclaim this to be &#;the first Jaco Pastorius concert to be made available on DVD!&#; True enough, but Jaco-philes likely alre

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Ivorian drummer boy turned globetrotting virtuoso

Paco Sery was a kid banging on tin cans before a job at a Club Med in Ivory Coast opened the way to drumming for Congo's rumba king Papa Wemba as well as Nina Simone and other jazz greats.

The Ivorian drummer has performed with Manu Dibango and Dee Dee Bridgewater, displaying a talent and fervor that could only lead to Paris, a European hub for mixing and merging global styles.

French jazzman Eddy Louiss, a genius of the Hammond organ, took him on for a tour.

"That was amazing. People made me listen to all the great musicians. I also found myself playing in front of them," recalls Sery, now nearly 61 years old.

In his music career Sery became a core member of Sixun, an experimental jazz fusion band that saw the light of day in and made a dozen records by , while the musicians also nurtured side-projects.

He befriended Jaco Pastorius and Wayne Shorter, famed U.S. members of the pioneering jazz-rock fusion band Weather Report founded by the late Austrian keyboard wizard Joe Zawinul.

"Zawinul was a great guy," Sery says. "We played together often."

He became a drummer in the Zawinul Syndicate, an international ensemble whose release "My People" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best World Music album.

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