From USA Today:
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – If it sounds strange that a metal master is financing a movie about a jazz virtuoso, there's a thing or two you need to learn about Metallica's Robert Trujillo and the late bass ace Jaco Pastorius.
"Jaco was my hero growing up. Hearing him was like hearing Eddie Van Halen doing Eruption for the first time: You thought, 'What instrument is that?' " Trujillo says.
"I loved jazz fusion and branched out from there," he says. "But Jaco had an edge that far exceeded his jazz persona. He was funk, he was rock, he was soul. And his whole attitude was punk."
Read the full USA Today article HERE.
Another article on the subject can be found at NoTreble.com.