Jaco Pastorius Big Band - Fannie Mae twice in a row (Live in Los Angeles, CA - January 11, 1982)

The Word of Mouth Big Band made their touring debut with two consecutive dates at Los Angeles's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Both days were captured by audience members, and while I have listened more to January 10 for its sound quality, 11 features these exciting versions of "Fannie Mae." Four minutes into the performance, Jaco plays a bass solo, uncommon for the song, followed by the horn theme, verse, and outro. And then — probably as a response to the enthusiastic crowd — they restart the song, but instead of "Fannie Mae," Jaco sings B. B. King's "Why I Sing the Blues" — but only for the first verse, which is why I don't consider this a proper rendition like I did initially; it's not uncommon to quote other blues songs, and I've also heard Jaco do this with "Kansas City." If you counted these back-to-back renditions as one, it still wouldn't rival the 19-minute version from the Word of Mouth's April 13, 1981, sophomore concert, which I'm yet to hear. The song got shorter as the tour went on, culminating in Yokohama Stadium's 2½-minute version used for Warner Bros.'s Twins II (Aurex Jazz Festival '82) and Invitation live albums. I've been building a chronology based on newspaper advertisements, tapes, among other sources, which dates the next performance to January 13 at Park West in Chicago, Illinois. I don't have a tape of this, but if you do, please contact me! Bobby Findley — trumpet Chuck Findley — trumpet Randy Brecker — trumpet Snooky Young — trumpet Ken Faulk — trumpet Bill Reichenbach Jr. — bass trombone Charlie Loper — trombone Peter Graves — trombone Dave Bargeron — tuba Bob Mintzer — tenor saxophone Gene Cipriano — tenor saxophone Marty Krystall? — tenor saxophone Randy Emerick — baritone saxophone Brad Warnaar — French horn Jaco Pastorius — bass Othello Molineaux — steel drums Don Alias — percussion Peter Erskine — drums 00:00 Fannie Mae 07:12 Fannie Mae (Encore?) Recorded at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los Angeles, California, USA), 1/11/1982. Still photo from Festival International de Jazz de Montreal at Theatre St-Denis (Montreal, Canada), 7/3/1982. https://linktr.ee/jacoarchive