Band formed by
Jaco Pastorius after his years with
Weather Report.
Since Jaco played with everybody who was anybody he had a huge talent pool to pull on for his band. As a result,
Word of Mouth albums are a
cornucopia of amazing musicians.
The first release, (Word Of Mouth, Warner Bros. BSK 3535 1982) had Jaco Pastorius playing bass guitar, with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter on soprano saxophone, Michael Brecker also on saxophone, Toots Thielemans on harmonica, Peter Erskine on drums, Jack DeJohnette also on drums, Don Alias on percussion, and many more.
Tracklist:
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Crisis
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3 Views of a Secret
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Chromatic Fantasy
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Blackbird
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Word of Mouth
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John and Mary
The group's
famous and busy members created an interesting recordin atmosphere.
jaco would lay down his bass line and send it out to his players. They would have to play and record their parts with just his bass line to work with.
In the end it was Jaco's instability that caused the dissolution of his own group. See Jaco Pastorius for more info.