Jaco Pastorius Truth, Liberty & Soul 45RPM (3 LP)

AAA Audiophile 200g 45rpm Triple Disc LP!
Sourced from First Generation Analog Recordings without Any Digital Corruption!
2xHD Mastering on Nagra Equipment by René Laflamme!
Cut All Analog at Bernie Grundman Mastering on Tube Cutting Equipment!
New York's "Kool Jazz Festival" invited great talents to the stage, including electric bassist Jaco Pastorius, former member of the band Weather Report, who is now one of the most important bassists in recent music history. Joining this performance on June 27, 1982 at Avery Fisher Hall was the big band "Word of Mouth" with harmonica virtuoso Toots Thieleman, recorded on 24 analog tracks with the mobile "Record Plant Truck". An extraordinary recording of an extraordinary concert.
This deluxe 45rpm edition is the first to be mastered from the original 2-track master tapes found some 30 years later; René LaFlamme is responsible for this.
There have been many guitar gods, but there's never been an electric bassist as deified as Jaco Pastorius. – Michael J. Agovino
This live album by Jaco Pastorius and the Word-of-Mouth Big Band, featuring harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans as special guest, was recorded in analog 24 tracks by the Record Plant mobile truck at Avery Fisher Hall in NYC on June 27, 1982, as part of George Wein's Kool Jazz Festival. This Deluxe 45rpm 200g edition is the first one to be mastered from the original 2 track master tapes that were found some 30 years later (the previous digital download versions were released from a digital remix of the 24 tracks). What we have here is the direct copy of the original pure analog 2 track mix.
The brightest star in the electric bass firmament, Jaco Pastorius burst onto the national scene in 1976 with his audacious self-titled album on Columbia Records, featuring a lineup of top jazz musicians. With his extraordinary fretless electric bass playing as the centerpiece, Jaco Pastorius created an immediate sensation with the public and the media. His signature approach employed Latin-influenced funk, lyrical solos on fretless bass, bass chords, and innovative use of harmonics. In Jaco's work with Weather Report and beyond, the self-described "greatest bass player in the world" (an assessment shared with virtually the entire music world) established a new identity and role for his instrument and became the torchbearer for a new way of playing both technically and conceptually. But behind it all was an ever present R&B and Latin-influenced groove and a screaming rock-'n'-roll attitude that he refined and incorporated into sophisticated jazz harmonic structures.
In addition to his extraordinary virtuosity, Jaco was also developing into an accomplished and sophisticated composer and arranger and those talents are gloriously on display on this album. The 3-time Grammy Award nominee was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1988, one of only seven bassists so honored (and the only electric bassist). His legacy as a bass innovator continues to this day, more than 30 years after his untimely death in 1987.
"Sonically, Truth, Liberty & Soul is also, hands down, the best-sounding Word of Mouth recording ever. So, Truth Liberty & Soul is not only a reminder of how much ground Pastorius broke in such a relatively short time on earth; it's also a reminder of how talented and broad-minded each and every member of his Word of Mouth Big Band was." - John Kelman, All About Jazz
"Sure, Truth, Liberty & Soul is for the Pastorius fanatics, but it's much more: this fantastically recorded document is a treasure trove of modern progressive jazz. The brilliant music found on it serves to underscore that Jaco was more than a brilliant, singular bassist (though that would have been enough); he was a great composer, arranger, and charismatic bandleader — a true jazz renaissance man." - Thom Jurek, AllMusic

Features:

• AAA Audiophile 200g Vinyl
• 3LP
• 45rpm
• Sourced from First-Generation Analog Recordings Without Any Digital Corruption
• 2xHD Mastering on Nagra Equipment by René Laflamme
• Cut All Analog at Bernie Grundman Mastering on Tube-Cutting Equipment
• Recorded at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, June 27, 1982, As Part of George Wein's Kool Jazz Festival
• Original Mobile Recording by Record Plant Remote Truck
• Sound Restoration by George Klabin & Fran Gala
• Made in Canada

Musicians:

• Jaco Pastorius, bass, vocals
• Bob Mintzer, tenor sax, soprano sax, bass clarinet
• Randy Brecker, trumpet
• Othello Molineaux, steel drums
• Don Alias, percussion
• Peter Erskine, drums
• Bob Stein, alto saxophone
• Lou Marini, tenor saxophone
• Frank Wess, tenor saxophone
• Howard Johnson, baritone saxophone
• Randy Emerick, baritone saxophone
• Alan Rubin, trumpet
• Lou Soloff, trumpet
• Jon Faddis, trumpet
• Ron Tooley, trumpet
• Kenny Faulk, trumpet
• David Taylor, trombone
• Jim Pugh, trombone
• Wayne Andre, trombone
• John Clark, French horn
• Peter Gordon, French horn
• David Bargeron, tuba
• Toots Thielemans, harmonica

Selections:

Side A
1. Invitation
Side B
1. Sophisticated Lady
2. Fannie Mae
Side C
1. Okonkolé y Trompa
Side D
1. Reza/Giant Steps
Side E
1. Mr.Fonebone
Side F
1. Soul Intro/The Chicken