| "Portrait of Tracy" | ||||
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Jaco Pastorius in 1980 |
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| Song by Jaco Pastorius from the album Jaco Pastorius | ||||
| Released | August 1976 | |||
| Recorded | Camp Colomby Studios and Columbia Recording Studios C&B, New York City, New York. | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion, Post-bop | |||
| Length | 2:23 | |||
| Label | Epic/Legacy (Sony Music) | |||
| Producer | Bobby Colomby | |||
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is a composition by bassist Jaco Pastorius. It appears on his landmark self-titled debut album, and is widely recorded as a tribute by bassists such as Joe Ferry, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten, Brian Bromberg, and others. It is considered by many a bass guitar standard, and is often used as a benchmark for a bassist's abilities.
The song is played almost exclusively with natural harmonics, giving it a dreamy, unfamiliar tone for the bass, which is common in Pastorius's style.
The song has been sampled as well, most notably, SWV's "Rain", Cannibal Ox's "Pigeon", Amon Tobin's "Daytrip", Master P "Ghetto Love", Chingy and Tyrese's "Pulling Me Back", Wagon Christ's Mr. Mukatsuku, Steve Spacek's "Hey There"and Hotstylz Faucet.