"This is where Ray Peterson’s utterly incredible new book comes in. The Jaco Pastorius Bass Method is essentially what the bass world got cheated out of, but has been looking for forever: a chance to study bass with Jaco."
"What is most striking though, are the last 4 or 5 pages. Ray Peterson establishes a sort of “call to arms” against the legacy of Jaco Pastorius as a lunatic who happened to be incredibly talented with a bass in his hands. He recalls about a million ways in which Jaco was someone you would loved to have hung out with, as opposed to the Milkowski school of tragedy. The last pages of the book are actual scans of paged from Jaco’s practice book, where there are a plethora of ideas to practice that just don’t seem like the kinds of thing that I would just come up with, that’s for sure."
