“I FEEL LIKE IDREAMEDHIM”
The precocious talent of Mitchell’s other great Hejira collaborator,
JACO PASTORIUS
Pistorius: “Therewas nobodyI'd ratherhang with”
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N Boulder, Colorado in March 1976, Joni Mitchell had two revelations. She met Buddhist guru Chögyam Trungpa, and then, thanks to her guitarist Robben Ford, she heard an advance copy of the debut album by Jaco Pastorius, a 25-yearold Florida beach bum who was some kind of savant of the fretless electric bass. Mitchell’s subsequent road trip across the United States eventually took her down to the Sunshine State. “In a way, I feel like I dreamed Jaco,” Mitchell told
Interview
magazine in 1991. “I mean, he was exactly what I was waiting for, sonically: the big round sound and the different approach to the bottom end of music.”