Editing Jaco Pastorius (section)

==Awards and honors==
Pastorius received two Grammy Award nominations in 1977 for his self-titled debut album: one for [[Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Group|Best Jazz Performance by a Group]] and one for [[Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist|Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist]] ("Donna Lee").<ref>{{citation| work = Awards and Shows| title = Grammy Awards 1977| url = http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1977-225.html| access-date = July 1, 2013}}</ref>  In 1978, he received a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist for his work on Weather Report's album ''Heavy Weather''.<ref>{{citation| work = Awards and Shows| title = Grammy Awards 1978| url = http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1978-226.html| access-date = July 1, 2013}}</ref>

''[[Bass Player (magazine)|Bass Player]]'' magazine gave him second place on a list of the one hundred greatest bass players of all time, behind [[James Jamerson]].<ref name="greatest">{{cite web|title=The 100 Greatest Bass Players of All Time | url= http://www.bassplayer.com/artists/1171/the-100-greatest-bass-players-of-all-time/61989 | website = BassPlayer.com | access-date =11 June 2017|date=24 February 2017}}</ref> After his death in 1987, he was voted, by readers of ''[[DownBeat]]'' magazine, to its [[DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]], joining bassists [[Jimmy Blanton]], [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]], [[Ron Carter]], [[Charles Mingus]], [[Charlie Haden]], and [[Milt Hinton]].<ref>{{citation| work = DownBeat| title = DownBeat Hall of Fame| url = http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=1020| access-date = July 1, 2013}}</ref>

Marcus Miller said "Jaco's composing was as unique as his playing."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2009-03-05|title=JacoPastorius.com : Guest Artists : Marcus Miller|url=http://www.jacopastorius.com/features/guestartists/marcusmiller.asp|access-date=2020-10-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305053240/http://www.jacopastorius.com/features/guestartists/marcusmiller.asp|archive-date=March 5, 2009}}</ref>

Many musicians have composed songs in his honour, such as Pat Metheny's "Jaco" on the album ''[[Pat Metheny Group (album)|Pat Metheny Group]]'' (1978),<ref name="songbook">{{cite book|last1=Metheny|first1=Pat|title=Pat Metheny Song Book | date=2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corp.|location=Milwaukee, WI | isbn=0-634-00796-3 | page = 439 | edition=Songbook}}</ref> "Mr. Pastorius" by [[Marcus Miller]] on [[Miles Davis]]'s album ''[[Amandla (album)|Amandla]]'', and Rod Argent's "Pastorius Mentioned" on his 1978 album ''Moving Home''. Others who have dedicated compositions to him include [[Randy Brecker]], [[Eliane Elias]], [[Chuck Loeb]], [[John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin]], [[Bob Moses (musician)|Bob Moses]], [[Ana Popović]], [[Dave Samuels]], and the [[Yellowjackets (band)|Yellowjackets]].<ref name="Milkowski 2005" />

On December 2, 2007, the day after his birthday, a concert called "20th Anniversary Tribute to Jaco Pastorius" was held at [[Broward Center for the Performing Arts]] in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with performances by the Jaco Pastorius Big Band and appearances by Randy Brecker, [[Dave Bargeron]], Peter Erskine,  [[Jimmy Haslip]], [[Bob Mintzer]], [[Gerald Veasley]], Pastorius's sons John and Julius Pastorius, Pastorius's daughter Mary Pastorius, [[Ira Sullivan]], [[Robert Thomas Jr.|Bobby Thomas Jr.]], and Dana Paul. Almost twenty years after his death, Fender released the Jaco Pastorius Jazz Bass, a fretless instrument in its Artist Series.

He has been called "arguably the most important and ground-breaking electric bassist in history" and "perhaps the most influential electric bassist today".<ref name="directions">{{cite book|last1=Belew|first1=Adrian|last2=Di Meloa | first2 = Al | last3 = Fripp | first3 =Robert|last4=McLaughlin|first4=John|editor1-last=Casabona|editor1-first=Helen|title=New directions in modern guitar|date=1986|publisher=Hal Leonard|location=Milwaukee, WI|isbn=0881884235}}</ref><ref name="everything">{{cite book|last1=Starr|first1=Eric|last2=Starr|first2=Nelson|title=Everything Bass Guitar Book|date=2008|publisher=F+W Media | location = Holbrook, MA|isbn=9781605502014}}</ref>

William C. Banfield, director of Africana Studies, Music and Society at [[Berklee College]], described Pastorius as one of the few original American virtuosos who defined a musical movement, in addition to [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[Louis Armstrong]], [[Thelonious Monk]], [[Charlie Christian]], [[Bud Powell]], [[Charlie Parker]], [[Dizzy Gillespie]], [[John Coltrane]], [[Sarah Vaughan]], [[Bill Evans]], [[Charles Mingus]], and [[Wes Montgomery]].<ref name="banfield">{{cite book|last1=Banfield|first1=William C.| title = Cultural codes : Makings of a Black Music Philosophy| date=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press | location = Lanham | isbn = 9780810872868| page =161}}</ref>

A public park is named for, and dedicated to, Jaco in the city he grew up in, [[Oakland Park, Florida]].