Found this on the UK's 'Guitarist' Magazine site http://www.guitarist.co.uk/print.asp?ID=143&type=int
[Way back in 1978, Clive Williamson, then a BBC radio journalist, found himself interviewing Jaco Pastorius for a jazz programme. At the time, Jaco was touring the UK with Weather Report...] > > > CW: I first heard your very distinctive sound on Joni Mitchell's > Hejira and Don Juan albums. How did you become involved > in those recordings? > Jaco: "Joni told me that a guitar player named Robben Ford - > who was playing with her - they were touring when my solo record > had come out, and he played her the album and she was knocked > out! She just tried to get a hold of me, and that was it, really. I just > went and played! I didn't even know anything about Joni Mitchell. > I hadn't even heard her music. In fact I hadn't heard any of Weather > Report's music before I joined the group. You know, > I'm a father, my daughter's almost eight, and from when she was > born, I've had no time to listen to music, so I don't know that much > about what's going on. I knew Miles Davis' music and Coltrane, > and James Brown and the Beatles. I know that stuff dead, Frank > Sinatra's too; that was what I was listening to, but once my kids > were born I was working around the clock, didn't have time to listen > to music. Also, music started changing and I didn't like where it was > going for a while. It really needed some direction, but now it's got > Weather Report! (laughs) So I didn't know [Joni's] music, but it was > really fun coming in from nowhere, and adding this thing! It was a > nice combination, especially on the Hejira album. The cut 'Hejira', > itself, I really like. I think that was the first thing I played with her. > [and talking about co-producing Weather Report's 'Heavy Weather' album] > Everything else I'd played on (like with Joni) had just been as a > sideman. But I got to get this sound - like on Joni's, was it 'Jericho'? > The tune before or after 'Jericho' I can't remember, er - 'Talk To Me', > that sort of a sound. I tell them to get that sort of a sound for my bass > from the desk, and I've got to hope they'll get that out on the record > sounding good. Like in Joni's case, Henry Lewy and her work good > together in the studio, and me and Joe work together: this is our > second project together and this only my second time from a > producer's standpoint. [Copyright Future Publishing 02/98] PaulC NP Eleanor - Shawn Colvin and Dave Matthews (wow!!- sounds like Nick Drake came down to sing on the chorus - lovely cello)
