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The SBL Podcast

064 - In Conversation with Zev Feldman - Jaco Pastorius Truth Liberty & Soul

The SBL Podcast

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🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In today’s podcast we get the lowdown on a stunning new album featuring Jaco Pastorius live in New York City. Released on May 26th, Jaco Pastorius - Truth, Liberty & Soul - Live in NYC showcases a previously unreleased performance by Jaco and the New York incarnation of his Word of Mouth Big Band. The original recording engineer, Paul Blakemore, was onboard to revisit the original 24-track tape reels, having first captured the gig on June 27th 1982 for a NPR Jazz Alive! radio broadcast, b...

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Scott Devine here and I'm back with another episode of the SBL podcast.

0:05.3

And today, it's a bit of a different one.

0:07.4

We've got Zev Feldman, who is from Resonance Records,

0:11.8

and he's going to be telling us about an awesome project that they've been going on.

0:16.5

Essentially, they've just put out an amazing new live album of the Jacko

0:20.5

and the New York version of the Word of Mouth band.

0:23.0

So this is like, this is actually like, it's an album with Jacko on it.

0:27.0

This isn't like a remake of an album.

0:28.7

This is actually Jacko and the New York version of the Word of Mouth big band.

0:33.1

Now, it's called Jacko Postori's Truth, Liberty and Soul live from New York City.

0:37.4

And the gig was actually recorded at and Soul live from New York City.

0:42.7

And the gig was actually recorded at Avery Hall in New York back in June, 1988.

0:48.3

And this is when Jacko was in really good shape before he went out to Japan and, you know, he had all them problems.

0:53.8

I'm not sure whether you've watched the documentary, but you should definitely check that out if you haven't already.

0:59.1

The new version of the big band was really great as well. Pete Ruskin was there, Toot Thielman's, Don Elias, you know, those guys just blew it, you know, they just blow me away

1:05.4

every time I check them out on any recording and obviously when Jacko's on the recording,

1:09.6

it helps. The gig was originally recorded

1:12.7

for a radio broadcast as well but this recording showcases the entire gig. Remixed from the original

1:18.8

24 track tape by the same, check this out by the same engineer. Now Zev is going to talk us

1:25.8

through the entire project as well, which also included

1:29.3

input from Bob Mincer, John Pastorius, Robert Trehalio, and Peter Erskine himself as well. So it's

1:35.7

going to be a really, really interesting chat this guys. And Nick from, obviously Nick from

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