Jaco Pastorius / Ira Sullivan Quintet - Ballye de Nina (1973) at "The Playboy Club"
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Ballye de Nina (Jaco Pastorius) (1973)
The Early Years Recording Track 8 of 15
- The most significant new recording on this CD came as a result of a last minute discovery of a never-before-know original composition by Jocko while playning live with the Ira Sullivan Quintet. Recorded on April 8th 1973, this composition, Ballye De Nina, was named after Jocko's three-year-old daughter Mary who was a dancing machine around the Hollywood apartment during that time. The title translated, "Little Girl Dance." A great addition to Jaco's discography
This incredible 13 minute performance finds Jocko playing with Ira Sullivan on Trumpet, Joe Diorio on guitar, Alex Darqui on Fendr Rhodes and Steve Bagby on drums. Immediately following the song Ira announces that it was written by their bassist Jocko Pastorius. I always felt that I needed to represent Joe Diorio in "Portrait Of Jaco" - The Early Years" as I knew he was another very big influences on Jocko. To me this recording represents the only missing piece to the puzzle that I regretfully wasn't able to find the first time around. Now I feel that Jocko's early years anthology is complete.
this brought back a lot memories of my longtime friend, jaco. this recording is from the miami beach playboy plaza hotel's very large lounge. I saw ira with jaco plenty of times. I also witnessed an extraordinary moment at one of these gigs. in 1972, while attending the university of miami, I helped promote a student concert featuring two of the all-time legends, ornette coleman and charles mingus. after the completion of the show--in the school cafeteria--mingus asked if we could drive over to miami beach at the playboy hotel as his longtime friend and amazing multi-instrumentalist ira sullivan was fronting a group featuring local south florida young musicians including a hot young bassist jaco pastorius, pianist mike gerber and drummer steve bagby. jumping into three cars were both groups minus coleman and his then-wife jayne cortez (charlie haden, dewey redman and ed blackwell; dannie richmond, charles mcghee, george adams and don pullen). we drove into the circular drive and valet parked and proceeded into the ballroom. although it was near-midnight, there were fewer than 20 other people in the place...and then after sullivan completed the tune, he said goodnight and thanks for coming. mingus being mingus looked up and motioned to a bleary-eyed sullivan, who immediately went wild with the knowledge that chaz and his group and 3/4 of the coleman quartet were in the house. after ira tried explaining to the manager that they needed to extend the time to accommodate another set, he was flatly denied until mingus said I will pay to keep this place open for another few hours..and that did the trick. and after lots of musical conversation...the sullivan ensemble (I kinda faintly remembered joe diorio as the fifth member as ira doubled on tenor and trumpet!) and played an amazing set for about 15 of us in the audience. mingus was totally smitten by the amazing talent of an electric bassist (very surprising as he was a connoisseur of acoustic bass, but far from being a believed in electrified instruments...something he toyed with soon, thereafter. jaco being jaco and mingus being mingus, two genius free-thinkers hit it off splendidly and the evening became a memory etched in my brain and rehashed over and over with pastorius, when we'd cross paths in the future (him playing with paul bley, a young university of miami student pat metheny and bruce ditmas; again when he joined weather report and I was their a&r person; and even into the years when I personally rehearsed the trio of doom prior to leaving for havana...and when he had his own groups as a leader). jaco always mentioned that moment as being so important and I know it is permanently etched into my mind as an historic meeting. mingus and jaco (obviously two of the contrabass geniuses meeting face-to-face). and as an aside, ira sullivan was a monster and major mentor to so many up-and-coming miami college students, including the above, mark egan, danny gottlied, phyllis hyman, carmen lundy, mark colby and many others. hope you all enjoy this memory of jaco...I have so many.
Jim Fishel, that is a great story! Was Jaco close to being be the bass player (technically speaking) he was on his solo album and with Weather Report? What do you think steered Jaco towards the direction of jazz and not funk (Little Beaver) or rock (Ian Hunter)? Bob Mover also credits Ira as being a huge influence on him.
thanks great anecdotal story
That's an incredible tale! Thanks for sharing Jim! I knew Ira and played with Bobby Herzog who wrote " Come on come over " on Jaco's solo album. Amazing I never met him as I came so close over the years.
wow, so that was a totally cool story. i lived there then, from '57 til '84 and used to hit all the jazz clubs; the airliner inn, the gold dust lounge, and would go to places like the lion's share and the unitarian church to watch ira and jaco. man, life was great back then, being young and being in a cool place like that. probably sat at a table right next to you on more than one occasion. peace.
@@normanhirschfeld3823 i don’t know Norman, should the video I’m commenting under give me the answer? And if the video doesn’t answer my question is it the person who posted the video’s fault? Talk about weird....
lived in miami at that time and was young and out and about. would regularly watch ira sullivan and jaco play around town, local little gigs like the lion's share restaurant in n dade and the unitarian church in south dade. an exciting time in an exciting place. lucky to be there and not over in nam.
Incredibly beautiful music, thank you!
bagby was a giant. the world doesn't know about him but he was as good as anybody ever. check out the duet album of him and joe diorio. super heavy.
graham hawthorne drums I know this is an old comment, but just wanted to point out that I did my masters in music business at the university of Miami back in the mid 2000’s, I was blessed to have had the opportunity to take lessons for a year with Steve to satisfy music school credits towards my degree. He had to be the greatest musician as you state, “the world doesn’t know about.” Steve’s memory deserves more recognition...to this day it still bothers that when he passed I was unaware of it and didn’t get to say my goodbyes, having already moved back to the Detroit area. At any rate I’ll never forget our Friday afternoons in the percussion studio, just playing and talking life, at the time he was ill and in retrospect, he knew he didn’t have much time left on earth. God Bless Steve, he not only made me a better drummer but also s better person. - Joel Bernier -UMiami ‘06
This was an Ira Sullivan band with Pastorius as their bassist.
+1 on the detailed fucking description. let alone the piece itself
Second that. Also I had the feeling that a Rhodes sounds great when the recording is less than optimal.
Woodchuck was an early funky soul trio in the early 70's.
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Ira Sullivan, Joe Diorio, Jaco Pastorius, Peter Graves - etc. MUSIC, thank you! More posts, plz
i love this sound. i love jitterbug waltz and ira. i love the depth jaco slams at this high trail. the rumble and the falls.
jocko ?
Yep, that's how he was credited on an album I had of, I believe, Ira Sullivan's from the mid 70's.
Brilliant. R.I.P a truly incredible musician!