Invitation
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| Live album by Jaco Pastorius | ||||
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1983 |
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| Label (s) | Warner Music | |||
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8 (LP) / 9 (CD) |
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running time |
40:35 |
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| occupation | In the sextet (for the Big Band line-up see below):
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Invitation is a live album by American bassist Jaco Pastorius . It was recorded from September 1-5, 1982 during his tour with the Word of Mouth band at concerts in Japan. The album was released on the Warner Music label . After the version with eight songs, a remastering with nine tracks was released in 2000 .
About the album
At the end of his time with the fusion band Weather Report , Jaco Pastorius founded the big band Word of Mouth , with which he toured several times between 1981 and 1986. In 1981 he recorded his second solo album of the same name with this band, Word of Mouth . Invitation was recorded a year later during a concert in Japan with the big band, who did not use a harmony instrument .
“Invitation” is a piece by the Polish-American film and hit composer Bronislau Kaper . The song was originally written for the movie My life is mine ( A Life Of Her Own ) from 1950 written. It was named "Invitation" because it was used again in 1952 for a film with this name. The title is the namesake of the album.
The second track on the album is Pastorius' interpretation of the traditional American song " America the Beautiful ", the melody of which was composed by Samuel A. Ward. Pastorius used the typical for his bass playing, among others Harmonics . The following track, "The Chicken," was written by saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis ; the introduction called "Soul Intro" comes from Pastorius himself. The original of the track "Continuum" was published on Jaco Pastorius' debut album . This live version differs from the original version; so Pastorius played an intro of about two and a half minutes before the melody of the theme can be clearly heard.
The tune for the jazz standard " Sophisticated Lady " was written in 1932 by Duke Ellington . In this version of the piece, star guest Toots Thielemans can be heard on the harmonica .
"Fannie Mae" was originally written by Buster Brown , Clarence Lewis and Morgan Robinson. "Eleven" is a piece by Miles Davis and Gil Evans . In the original edition of the album, the two pieces were merged; in the remastering of 2000 they are separated as always in the Japanese edition. “Fannie Mae” (called “ Pac-Man Blues” in the Japanese edition ) is the only track on the album on which vocals can be heard. The text is a modification of the original text by Buster Brown.
Pieces of the album
- Invitation ( Kaper ) - 6:42
- America (Traditional) - 1:09
- Soul Intro / The Chicken (Pastorius / Ellis ) - 6:35
- Continuum (Pastorius) - 4:13
- Liberty City (Pastorius) - 4:11
- Sophisticated Lady ( Ellington ) - 4:53
- Reza / Giant Steps / Reza (Reprise) (Pastorius, John Coltrane ) - 10:02
- Fannie Mae / Eleven ( Brown / Evans / Davis ) - 2:36
Reviews
Scott Yanow described the album in Allmusic as the better of the two Word of Mouth recordings and gave it four and a half out of five points. He mentions the "rather unusual sound of the big band accompanying a bass guitarist."
Richard Cook and Brian Morton describe in the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Invitation as a "great album" that is "a celebration for bass guitar fans", but only awarded the album three stars. The authors criticize its “inconsistent sound”, especially in the piece “America”, which shows a strong Hendrix influence . Pastorius may show his roots in jazz with Coltrane's “Giant Steps” and Gil Evans' “Eleven”, but he offers a more “ eclectic mix” with the rest of the repertoire .
Cast of the big band
In addition to the sextet and Thielemans (see box above):
- Trumpet : Jon Faddis , Elmer Brown , Forrest Buchtel , Ron Tooley
- Trumpet : Wayne Andre , Dave Bargeron , Peter Graves , Bill Reichenbach junior
- Woodwinds : Mario Cruz ( tenor - and soprano saxophone , clarinet ), Randy Emerick ( baritone saxophone , clarinet, alto flute), Alex Foster (tenor, alto and soprano saxophone, clarinet, piccolo ), Paul McCandless (Tensorsaxophon, oboe , English horn )
- French horn : Peter Gordon , Brad Warnaar
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The album on the official homepage of Jaco Pastorius. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 17, 2010 ; accessed on October 2, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Album at Answers.com. Retrieved October 2, 2010 .
- ↑ See Bielefeld Catalog 1988.
- ↑ The Japanese release of the same label consisted of two LPs called Twins I and Twins II and contained 13 tracks. The titles Three Views of a Secret , Okonkole 'y Trompa Elegant People and Twins were also included here. Cf. Pastorius overall discography ( memento of the original from August 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Fannie Mae and Eleven were published separately in the new edition, unlike in the original
- ^ "Invitation" at JazzStandards.com. Retrieved October 2, 2010 .
- ^ "Sophisticated Lady" at JazzStandards.com. Retrieved October 2, 2010 .
- ↑ Scott Yanow: Review on Allmusic.com. Retrieved October 2, 2010 .
- ^ Cook & Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, London 2006, p. 1034 (8th edition).
