"Jaco" was born John Francis Pastorius III, the first of three sons born to John Francis Pastorius II and Stephanie Katherine Haapala Pastorius. He had Finnish, German, Swedish, and Irish ancestry.

On Dixie Highway, just north of Oakland Park Boulevard, sits the Jaco Pastorius mural. Chances are you’ve passed it a dozen times, probably without much thought. Next time, pay attention — you’re ...

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Jaco's Corner had been a gathering place in Olympia since 1920. Tim Dominick tdominick@thestate.com Jaco’s Corner bar and grill in Columbia, which had been operated by three generations of the Jaco ...

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There’s an old joke about an anthropologist who discovers a tribe in the jungle who play drums non-stop, day and night, for weeks on end. Then suddenly, one day, the drumming stops. Panic ensues. When ...

When I tell people, "I saw Jaco play," I'm sometimes held in the same kind of reverential wonder that I shower on those who saw John Coltrane. Such is the reverence for his prolific, genre-busting ...

This article appears in Chapter 3 of Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius by Bill Milkwoski (Backbeat Books, 2005). By the fall 1969, Jaco would find out what it was like to run ...

Artists “I’d rather go in and just be Jaco”: The genius of Jaco Pastorius in one of the greatest jazz songs of all time Artists “Miles said, ‘Play it like you don’t know how to play the guitar!’”: ...

The first question most people ask when visiting Jaco's Bayfront Bar and Grille is a simple one: Who's Jaco? The sketched photograph of founder David Hambrick's beloved soft-coated wheaten terrier, ...