This Is Jazz 40: The Jaco Years

Compilation by Weather Report

Released 4 May 1998

Alex Acuña
drums (drum set) [4]
Alex Kazanegras
engineer [1-2]
Brian Risner
assistant [4], engineer [8], mix [7], recording [7]
Chester Thompson
drums (drum set) [9]
David Mancini Jr.
assistant [1-2]
Don Alias
congas [9], percussion [9]
George Massenburg
engineer [8]
Jaco Pastorius
arranger [1-2], assistant [7], bass [1-2, 7-8], co [1-2, 4, 8], drums (drum set) [2], electric bass guitar [4, 9], mix [7], producer [4], timpani [2], vocal [1-2]
Jerry Hudgins
assistant [4], engineer [8], mix [8]
Joe Zawinul
Rhodes piano [9], analog synthesizer [4], grand piano [4, 9], keyboard [1-2, 7-8], mix [7], orchestrator [4], percussion [7], piano [7], producer [1-2, 4, 7-9], synthesizer [2, 7-9, 9]
Peter Erskine
drum machine [7], drums (drum set) [7-8]
Robert Thomas, Jr.
percussion [7-8]
Ron Malo
engineer [4, 9]
Tony Williams
drums (drum set) [1]
Wayne Shorter
Lyricon [9], assistant [4, 7], co [9], producer [4], saxophone [8], soprano saxophone [1-2, 4, 7, 9], tenor saxophone [1, 7, 9]