Pinocchio
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A Wayne Shorter tune originally recorded in 1967 by
the Miles Davis Quintet for the Nefertiti album. This
was Peter Erskine's first recording with the group. In
Woodard's retrospective, Erskine recalled,
"Whenever I think of the way Tony played that with
Miles [on Nefertiti]," Erskine says, "there was so
much finesse and it was so slippery. Ours was
definitely a harder, electronic version of it. So I was
crestfallen when they went in to listen to the way it
sounded and said, 'Hey, we're done. Let's just use
this.' I was, 'Wait, wait...' And Jaco turned to me and
said, 'You have to join the band the same way I did,
with the first take.'"
Erskine told much the same story to Brian Glasser:
"One of the first things we did in the studio was
'Pinocchio,' which was actually just a soundcheck for
the engineer--it was the very first thing we put on tape
that morning, and I was dismayed during playback
because I was playing all over the place, partly just to
give the engineer variety. I was certainly a little self-
conscious that this would be my take on the great
'Pinocchio'! And then Jaco turned to me and said,
'Let's just use this,' and I was, 'No, no!' And he said,
'Well, you have to join the band the same way I did:
first take,' because, of course, his first take was
'Cannonball.' And I said, 'Okay, fair enough.'"
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