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Jaco Pastorius
Invitation
Album US 1983 on Warner Bros. Records label
Jazz (Fusion)
Recorded live at Budokan (Tokyo), Yokohama Stadum (Yokohama), Festival Hall (Osaka)
Musicians
 | Jaco Pastorius b, 1951-1987 US bass, producer, arranged by, remix, album by, composed by, soul intro, composed by, reza (reprise) |
 | Randy Emerick fl, ts, bs, baritone saxophone |
 | Bill Reichenbach tb, US bass trombone |
 | Peter Graves tb, bass trombone |
 | Peter Erskine dr, *1954 US drums, timpani, gong |
 | Brad Warnaar frh, *1950 US french horn |
 | Peter Gordon frh, *1945 FR french horn |
 | Toots Thielemans h, g, *1922 BE harmonica |
 | Don Alias perc, 1939-2006 US percussion |
 | Othello Molineaux st-d, *1939 TT steel drums |
 | Paul McCandless ob, eh, *1947 US tenor saxophone |
 | Alex Foster as, US tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone |
 | Bob Mintzer ts, *1953 US tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, arranged by |
 | Mario Cruz cl, US tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone |
 | Wayne Andre tb, 1931-2003 US trombone |
 | Dave Bargeron tb, tu, *1942 US trombone, tuba |
 | Elmer Brown tr, trumpet |
 | Forrest Buchtel tr, fh, US trumpet |
 | Randy Brecker tr, fh, *1945 US trumpet |
 | Ron Tooley tr, trumpet |
 | Alfred Ellis ts, as, fl, composed by, the chicken |
 | John Coltrane ts, 1926-1967 US composed by, giant steps |
 | Jon Faddis tr, *1953 US trumpet, solo on "reza" |
Producers
| Simon Levy art direction |
| Mitch Gibson engineer, assistant |
| Vince Oliveri engineer, assistant |
| Yoshihisa Watanabe engineer, assistant |
| Yutaka Tomioka engineer, assistant |
| Peter Yianilos remix, engineer, mixing |
| Brian Risner remix, engineer, recording |
| Gary Panter illustration |
| Katsuji Abe photography by |
| Shigeru Uchiyama photography by |
| Michael Knuckles remix |
Album Tracks 
| No | |
Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Invitation | Jaco Pastorius | Bronislaw Kaper | 6:42 |
| 2 | | Amerika | Jaco Pastorius | 1:09 | |
| 3 | | Soul Intro / The Chicken | Jaco Pastorius | Jaco Pastorius, Alfred Ellis | 6:35 |
| 4 | Continuum | Jaco Pastorius | Jaco Pastorius | 4:13 | |
| 5 | | Liberty City | Jaco Pastorius | Jaco Pastorius | 4:11 |
| 6 | | Sophisticated Lady | Jaco Pastorius | Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish | 4:53 |
| 7 | Reza / Giant Steps / Reza (Reprise) | Jaco Pastorius | John Coltrane, Jaco Pastorius, Jaco Pastorius | 10:02 | |
| 8 | | Fannie Mae | Jaco Pastorius | Bobby Robinson, Buster Brown, Clarence Lewis | 2:36 |
| 9 | Eleven | Jaco Pastorius | Gil Evans, Miles Davis | 0:25 |
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