Welcome to the all-new site for Jaco! We’re glad you’re here.
We’ve updated the Music section to include more details about the albums (and more albums).
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This is just the beginning. We have a lot more planned, and a lot coming your way.
— Mary, John, Felix & Julius
Thanks for sharing your Dad`s legacy with all of us. Nice work (and words).
Nice update to the site. I’ve had this page bookmarked for many years. Glad to see an update, please don’t let it get stale like previous efforts.
I would like to contact the family. Your legacy is being ripped off currently on EBAY. A listing for a private recording of Jaco is starting bids at 99 000 dollars. Seller threatens to double the starting bid if it doesn’t sell now. If Jaco was talented and crazy, I am even more so, and LOVE the mans work and “personality.” (So I am a virtuoso and a bit of a flake, and not famous. So what ? BUT I STILL DEFEND JACO !!!)
\I COMMENTED to the seller…”Truly carnivorous. At that price you will only offer it to “the elite” the very ones that ultimately destroyed great musicians such as he (who NEVER have that kind of cash).
Truly exploitative, why don’t you just offer it to his children ??? They can offer it as a download on their site or better yet on PLEDGERS site. Like Allan Holdsworth has done. Selling this at this price is totally WRONG, and EVIL.
YOU SHOULD DONATE IT TO A MUSEUM. Bad karma will become of these actions here, I Promise. GOD BLESS. A soul in psychic and spiritual defense of JACO. ”
///THIS IS WHAT THE SELLER WROTE TO ME..AND ITS BRUTAL…
“I paid for it, I bought it at an auction when nobody could have cared less about Yeager, his music etc.
Where were they all? Huh? People could have come, it was even advertised, so I was there, I saw what was these in the storage unit, what I was suppose to walk away? And why should I donate it? For what?
People don’t know the value of this, how many rare recordings like this exist?
Donate it? Are you serious, talk about corrupt, all charities and fake bull, I have my own charity cause I do give to BTW, its called Jim Beam Costa Rican young prostitutes that I help occasionally sometimes 12 at a time, how about that charity?
Mind your own business, what I do with what I paid for is nobody’s business but mine!!!!”
\This is what I wrote back to the seller…
“You present many interesting questions. Obviously you have made an important niche for yourself, and enjoy tactile sensations of comfort with your material success. But, to quote Shakespeare, turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest. Am I serious ? Yes, I WAS serious. If you believe you will live forever, then I understand the concept of using the life force to engage fruitlessly in wasting time with communicating with the intention of conveying a message with the qualities of dishonesty. OF COURSE I AM SERIOUS. I never “kid around.” Call me. xxxx xxxx xxxx. I entice you. I INVITE formally you, in the name of JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHY, to COME here and discuss it in person with me. ONE NOTE, ONE LOOK WILL ANNIHILATE all impurities in the Souls who have made the unfortunate decision to expound the nature of a Vulture. I have asked several questions. I am a potential purchaser. Your item is in most likelihood fraudulent and you have been reported to ebay. It is moronic to hide your details, as I have already dealt with harlequins in every walk of life. Your credibility as a biological ENTITY is at stake. If your item could be ascertained as “authentic through 100 per cent proof and photographic evidence,” you would potentially have had a customer right here. Have you botched this opportunity? Good luck to you. PS it would be great to read EVERYTHING I wrote and then you could have answered my SEVERAL QUESTIONS. PEACE. Need a dictionary ? Lets go, baby. If you perchance spewed rhetoric, then disregard the provocation which YOU in fact, have engendered.
Maybe you could sell it to the morons in METALLICA who have held JACOs BASS HOSTAGE for a million or so dollars. STAY HEALTHY, your body is the only thing you will OWN when we DIE, DIE, DIE to the physical plane. In spiritual Warfare, sincerely, with the POWER and GLORY and ETERNAL LOVE OF JESUS CHRISTOS ALMIGHTY…a copy of this message will be forwarded to the survivors of Jaco Pastorius” Sorry for the wordiness, but this is what happened. ONCE UPON A TIME, I was beat up just like Jaco…and will never forget that like Frank Zappa used to quote Edgard Varese, saying “THE PRESENT DAY COMPOSER REFUSES TO DIE!!!”
send any comments to [email protected] JOHN MARSHALL
here is the listing on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Jaco-Pastorius-Billy-Yeager-Rare-Recording-/171809677676