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Frederic Monino: Around Jaco
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Bassist Frédéric Monino offers this tribute to Jaco Pastorius twenty years after the latter's senseless death-- and I use the word senseless advisedly; Pastorius' murder made no sense. Monino's disc furthermore appears amidst important retrospectives of his greatest band, Weather Report: the box set Forecast: Tomorrow (Columbia/Legacy, 2006); and Weather Report co-leader Joe Zawinul's Brown Street (Heads Up, 2007). There are at least three potential pitfalls to such a project. The first is that Monino as a ...
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