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Pastorius was born in Pennsylvania, but soon moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was raised. He played music throughout his youth, and in 1974, he began playing with his friend Pat Metheny. In 1976, he was invited to join fusionJazz fusion (sometimes referred to simply as fusion is a musical genre that loosely encompasses the merging of jazz with other styles, particularly rock, funk, R&B, and world music. It basically involved jazz musicians mixing the forms and techniques of j band Weather ReportWeather Report was a seminal jazz fusion band of the 1970s and 1980s. The band was originally a spin-off from the group of musicians centered around Miles Davis in the late sixties and early seventies. The stable core of the group was the duo of pianist J, where he played alongside Joe ZawinulJoseph Zawinul (born July 7, 1932 in Vienna, Austria as Josef Zawinul is one of the front runners in the development of jazz fusion along with Chick Corea, John McLaughlin and Miles Davis. In 1971 he formed a band, Weather Report, with Wayne Shorter. and Wayne ShorterWayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz composer and saxophonist. In the 1950s and early 1960s he played with Horace Silver, Maynard Ferguson and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, for whom he eventually became musical director. From 196 until 1981Events January-February January Sarawak Chamber found January 1 Greece enters the EEC January 1 Palau becomes self-governing January 4 Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 16 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette D. His first solo albumAn album is a packaged collection of related things. The most common types of albums are record albums and photo albums''. Photo albums collect a series of photographs in a book. Some albums have compartments which the photos may be slipped in to; older s was released in 1976 to generally good reviews. He toured with his Word of MouthWord of Mouth was the title of a 1981 album by Jaco Pastorius, released while the bassist was a member of Weather Report. The title of the album is the namesake for the Pastorius tribute album Word of Mouth Revisited''. Track listing #"Crisis" #"3 Views o Big Band from 1980 to 1984.

Pastorius also recorded some highly regarded albums with singer Joni Mitchell.

In the mid- 1980s, Pastorius began to experience mental problems, symptoms of manic depression. These were worsened by heavy drug and alcohol use. His musical performaces sometimes suffered as a result. He fell out of public favor and became an outcast in the music business. In 1987, he was beaten into a coma after an altercation with a bouncer at the Midnight Club in Fort Lauderdale. He suffered irreversible brain damage and died on September 21 of that year.