is a composition by bassist Jaco Pastorius

Jaco Pastorius

John Francis Anthony Pastorius III , known as Jaco Pastorius, was an American jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged as a virtuoso electric bass player....

. It appears on his landmark self-titled debut album

Jaco Pastorius (album)

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, and is widely recorded as a tribute by bassists such as Joe Ferry, Marcus Miller

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, Victor Wooten

Victor Wooten

Victor Lemonte Wooten is an American bass player, composer, author, and producer, and has been the recipient of five Grammy Awards....

, Brian Bromberg, and others. It is considered by many a bass guitar standard, and is often used as a benchmark for a bassist's abilities.

The song is played almost exclusively with natural harmonics, giving it a dreamy, unfamiliar tone for the bass, which is common in Pastorius's style.

The song has been sampled as well, most notably, SWV

SWV

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's "Rain", Cannibal Ox

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's "Pigeon", Amon Tobin

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's "Daytrip", Master P "Ghetto Love", Chingy

Chingy

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 and Tyrese

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's "Pulling Me Back", Wagon Christ's Mr. Mukatsuku, Steve Spacek's "Hey There

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"and Hotstylz Faucet.