NARAS Heroes: Jaco Pastorius is a documentary short honoring legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius, who brought an aura of rock and roll celebrity and transforming the electric bass guitar with with ferocious speed and lyrical articulation.

NARAS Heroes: Jaco Pastorius is a video documentary short honoring legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius, who made great accomplishments in music and the creative community, bringing an aura of rock and roll celebrity to an otherwise studious genre and transforming the electric bass guitar with with ferocious speed and lyrical articulation. Jaco Pastorius was born in Pennsylvania, but put Florida on the map of jazz globally. Raised in Fort Lauderdale, Pastorius expanded his explosive bass ideas into full-fledged works of complex and unexpected orchestrations, on par with Charles Mingus. But where Mingus was quiet and controlled, Pastorius was anything but. His flamboyance masked deeper psychological problems that led to his untimely death at the age of 35. During the '70s and '80s, he brought an aura of rock and roll celebrity to an otherwise studious genre, evoking the heyday of Gillespie and Davis. Along the way, with ferocious speed yet lyrical articulation, this former drummer transformed the electric bass guitar, doing for it what Jimi Hendrix had done for the electric six-string. He worked with artists ranging from Wayne Cochran and C.C. Riders to Pat Metheny and Joni Mitchell and won a GRAMMY Award in 1979 for his work on "8:30" with jazz giants Weather Report.