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Jaco is the unofficial later title of a 1974 LP album on Paul Bley's Improvising Artists Label. It is notable for being the first professional recording showcasing the talents of Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny. The two had become friends in Miami the year before. Their collaboration continued on Metheny's debut Bright Size Life with Bob Moses, recorded in December 1975.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Vashkar"	Carla Bley	9:55
2.	"Poconos"	Paul Bley	1:00
3.	"Donkey"	Carla Bley	6:28

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Vampira"	Paul Bley	7:15
2.	"Overtoned"	Carla Bley	1:04
3.	"Jaco"	Paul Bley	3:45
4.	"Batterie"	Carla Bley	5:12
5.	"King Korn"	Carla Bley	0:29
6.	"Blood"	Annette Peacock	1:28

Personnel

Pat Metheny – guitar
Jaco Pastorius – bass guitar
Paul Bley – electric piano
Bruce Ditmas – drums

References

https://www.allmusic.com/album/r164647
ecmrecords.com. "album entry" Archived 2014-03-03 at the Wayback Machine

v t e Jaco Pastorius
As leader	Jaco Jaco Pastorius Word of Mouth Invitation Holiday for Pans The Birthday Concert Trio of Doom
With Weather Report	Black Market Heavy Weather Mr. Gone 8:30 Night Passage Weather Report Live and Unreleased Forecast: Tomorrow The Legendary Live Tapes: 1978–1981
with Herbie Hancock	Sunlight Mr. Hands
with Joni Mitchell	Hejira Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Mingus Shadow and Light
With others	Cliff Hanger Down by Law All American Alien Boy Land of the Midnight Sun Bright Size Life I'm Fine, How Are You? Upside Downside Ira Sullivan
Related	Discography Jaco (film)

v t e Paul Bley
Studio albums	Introducing Paul Bley Paul Bley Solemn Meditation Footloose! Barrage Touching Closer Ramblin' Mr. Joy Paul Bley with Gary Peacock Ballads The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show Open, to Love Paul Bley/NHØP Jaco Alone, Again Quiet Song Tears Tango Palace Sonor Questions Diane My Standard Fragments The Paul Bley Quartet The Nearness of You Blues for Red Notes (with Paul Motian) Partners (with Gary Peacock) BeBopBeBopBeBopBeBop Memoirs (with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian) 12 (+6) In a Row (with Hans Koch and Franz Koglmann) Right Time, Right Place (with Gary Burton) Changing Hands In the Evenings out There Paul Plays Carla Annette Hands On If We May Time Will Tell (with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips) Chaos (with Furio Di Castri and Tony Oxley) Sankt Gerold (with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips) Notes on Ornette Not Two, Not One (with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian) Basics Nothing to Declare About Time
Live albums	Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958 Coleman Classics Volume 1 Improvisie Dual Unity (with Annette Peacock) Japan Suite Axis Hot Live at Sweet Basil Solo in Mondsee Play Blue: Oslo Concert
Related articles	Discography

Pat Metheny

Group albums

As leader

Pat Metheny Group	Pat Metheny Group (1978) American Garage (1979) Offramp (1982) Travels (1983) First Circle (1984) The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) Still Life (Talking) (1987) Letter from Home (1989) The Road to You (1993) We Live Here (1995) Quartet (1996) Imaginary Day (1997) Speaking of Now (2002) The Way Up (2005)
Others	Bright Size Life (1976) Watercolors (1977) 80/81 (1980) Rejoicing (1984) Question and Answer (1990) Secret Story (1992) Flower Hour (1992) Trio 99 → 00 (2000) Trio → Live (2000) Day Trip (2008) Tokyo Day Trip (2008) Unity Band (2012) Kin (←→) (2014) The Unity Sessions (2016) From This Place (2020)

As group member/side man

Jaco (1974)
Ring (1974)
Dreams So Real - Music of Carla Bley (1975)
Passengers (1976)
Shadows and Light (1980)
Michael Brecker (1987)
Parallel Realities (1990)
Reunion (1990)
Till We Have Faces (1992)
Wish (1993)
Blues for Pat: Live in San Francisco (1995)
Tales from the Hudson (1996)
Like Minds (1998)
The Sound of Summer Running (1998)
Time Is of the Essence (1999)
Nearness of You: The Ballad Book (2001)
Upojenie (2002)
Portrait of Jaco: The Early Years, 1968–1978 (2003)
Pilgrimage (2007)
Quartet Live (2009)
Hommage à Eberhard Weber (2015)

Solo albums

Collaborations

As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981, Mays)
Song X (1986, Coleman)
Electric Counterpoint (1989)
I Can See Your House from Here (1994, Scofield)
Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) (1997, Haden)
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (1999, Hall)
Upojenie (2002, Jopek)
Metheny Mehldau (2006, Mehldau)
Metheny Mehldau Quartet (2007, Mehldau)
Tap:John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol. 20 (2013, Zorn)
Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016, Vu)

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