If you haven’t already, do yourself a favor and check out Bill Milkowski’s biography of the greatest bass player who ever lived, Jaco Pastorius. I have a previous printing of this book and have read it many, many times. The 3rd chapter is posted over at All About Jazz along with the following video of Jaco doing his Jaco thing:

Some other interesting Jaco bits:

1. Jaco Pastorius CD
2. Word of Mouth CD
3. Modern Electric Bass, Instructional DVD
4. Joni Mitchell – Shadows and Light, an amazing DVD with Pat Metheny and Jaco
5. Heavy Weather

And another video for good measure from Shadows and Light: