While I was writing about fretless bass, I briefly mentioned Jaco Pastorius’ “Portrait of Tracy.” Now it’s time to dig into this tune properly.
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Donna Lee
Here’s a Charlie Parker recording that’s not widely known outside of jazz, but is absolutely foundational inside it: This recording features a very young Miles Davis on trumpet. Miles later said that he wrote the tune, and that its copyright attribution to Charlie Parker was a record label error. I believe him. It sounds more …