For the 1964 album with Monica Zetterlund, see, The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961, "Bill Evans Trio: Sunday At The Village Vanguard & Waltz For Debby", Plays the Theme from The V.I.P.s and Other Great Songs, Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings, Consecration: The Final Recordings Part 2, On Broadway Vol. The 25-year old Scott LaFaros death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock to the jazz world. And how does it go? Before that grim July night, LaFaro had been a busy bassist. Evans also went on hiatus after LaFaro's death for a period of several months. Each year during the first week of April, The Smith hosts the Scott LaFaro Day Celebration concert that features a contemporary bass player. LaFaro achieved fame in the Bill Evans Trio, which he joined in 1959 and which featured Paul Motian on drums. I remained close friends with Scotty in New York, and would go over there to see and admire them, and Scotty and Paul would come over to the Five Spot, too. Scott LaFaro - Artist Details. The CD reissue of the album contains several outtakes. 1950s - 1960s. How did that happen? LaFaro and his stellar bandmates pianist Don Friedman and drummer Pete LaRoca run through four jazz standards, including two takes of Sacre Blu. Q: What kind of influence did your father have on your brothers music? The album was the fourth and final effort from the unitLaFaro died in a car accident just ten days after the live date at the Village Vanguard from which Waltz for Debby and its predecessor, Sunday at the Village Vanguard, were taken. All is possible, and then all is no more. LaFaro-Fernandez: Dad (Joe LaFaro) never forced us to play music. And youre out, Death letyou out, Death had the Mercy, youre done with your century, done with God, done with the path thru itAllen Ginsberg (b. There was great rapport. After Scotty joined the Buddy Morrow Orchestra, he traveled with them all over the country until they reached California, as he really wanted to be where the West Coast jazz scene was happening. He's seen here playing "Cherry" and "Chart of My Heart" with saxophonist Richie Kamuca's Quintet on a Stars of Jazz television broadcast on April 7, 1958. He was his own thing. LaFaro was killed in a car accident ten days after the recording. Around this time he received a greeting card from Miles Davis suggesting that Davis wanted to hire him. In 2009 she published a biography about him, Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro. Grit is not a LaFaro staple, but that does not mean texture isnt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faSD3g1ndHE, LaFaro began working regularly with Ornette after Evans became ill with hepatitis in July 1960 and went to Florida to recuperate at his parents home amid rumors that hed died. Mom needed the money. Dad (Joe LaFaro) never forced us to play music. A driver was killed when a car crashed into a home in the Hancock Park . Brooklyn, NY The other day at school someone mentioned Red Mitchell taking the bass which was in the car crash that killed Scott LaFaro back to Kolstein's in pieces, and Kolstein, fairly recently, restored it. Well, Michael Cera did play a bassist in Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. The album included five tracks recorded in New York City during 1961 with pianist Don Friedman and drummer Pete LaRoca.[13]. As weve already noted regarding the time period right around his tragic death, LaFaro packed a lot of art into his days. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_rZZusz90, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbTEgBEaEM4. Hentoff heard LaFaro as the most important new bassist since Paul Chambers and Wilbur Ware, and added, It may be necessary to add for those hearing LaFaro for the first time that his bass is not electronically amplified. At the time it was such a revolutionary idea, and it ushered in a sea change for jazz. Death. ai! There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. The Scott La Faro book was wonderful. Find him on the web at colinfleminglit.com (where he maintains the unique online journal, the Many Moments Moreblog) and on Twitter @colinfleminglit. Once he got the gig, his college days were over. He heard what I was doing at the piano, and I heard what he was doing. LaFaro-Fernandez: Scotty and I were born in New Jersey but we moved back to Geneva in 1942. He replaced Charlie Haden as Ornette Coleman's bassist in January 1961. Your family ended up following Scotty out to California. The BMW then struck a fourth car which was traveling south on Corbin Avenue. The 25-year-old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock to the jazz world. Remembering Geneva's jazz legend Scott LaFaro: An interview with his sister Helene LaFaro-Fernandez - Smith Center for the Arts Smith Center for the Arts CONTACT US 82 Seneca Street Geneva, NY 14456 315-781-5483 BOX OFFICE Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES by appointment boxoffice@thesmith.org 1998 Kevin Crosby. My day consists of such a singular preoccupationthe physicology of music. A record like this could easily have become just a mood disc: sound as fuzzy, woolly painting, in which the experiment becomes an end unto itself, the gesture, the gambit, being everything. Scottys death was hard on my Mom. He was a musician from age 4. Free Jazz did that kind of splicing and segmenting for you, as part of, neatly enough, its original integrated sonic package. He died near Geneva in an auto accident in 1961. Little must have loved LaFaros contributions, because he himself was one of those players between spheres: neither a bopper nor a hard-bopper nor an out-and-out New Thing guy. You can read our interview with Holland here. The entire day's recordings were released in 2005 as The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961. After three months at Ithaca College, he concentrated on bass. Toggle filters. Scott LaFaro was born 64 years ago today. After that touch of piano, he really started to enjoy music and develop a keen awareness of what it was all about. Everyone would say Dont go to the creek! but we did anyway, and would come home with red shoes. Such is the legacy of bassist Scott LaFaro, though I would suggest that what was was more than we often think. That show typically includes stories about LaFaro, who forever changed the jazz worlds concept of what bass playing could accomplish with his counter-melodic style. The trio attracted attention for its style. With my mom and Scotty and my two sisters and then our own kids, we eventually had to build onto the house. For Evans, Misery offered a glimpse of a relationship to come., Two months later, on December 28, 1959, the Bill Evans Trio made its premiere recording for Riverside,Portrait in Jazz. LaFaro started his professional career playing a German-made Mittenwald double bass but it was stolen in the Spring of 1958. Performers: Thad Jones, tp; Herb Geller, as; Billy Taylor, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Elvin Jones, d. June 1959. The 25-year old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock to the jazz world. Waltz for Debby is a live album by jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans and his trio consisting of Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Paul Motian. But he was best known for his collaborations and recordings with the Bill Evans Trio. Three of the tunes from their setBaubles, Bangles and Beads; Where Do You Go; and Airegin were released on CD in 1994. He said, Man, youve gotta hear this. LaFaro died in an automobile accident on July 6, 1961, in Seneca, New York, [5] on U.S. Route 20 between Geneva and Canandaigua, [9] four days after accompanying Stan Getz at the Newport Jazz Festival. Everyone heard him. [10] LaFaro is best known as the bassist in Bill Evans' groundbreaking trio, and also worked with Chet Baker, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins and the Stan Kenton Orchestra. But LaFaro had a pronounced Dolphy streak too, in that both musicians were playmakers, facilitators, helping others to raise their games by playing theirs at the highest level. Our Dad was from here. Evans was an articulate interweaver of a pianist, a melodic speaker, a filigree lord rather than a rhythm king. Friedman relates inJade Visions,He used to play my piano, and was very interested in minor 7thchords with the flat 5th. Then wed go home and have dinner and ice cream. It is well remembered as the final performance by the Evans trio of the time, which included bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian. In Jeff Campbells essay, Scott LaFaro: The Complete Musician (an addendum toJade Visions), he singles out the trios performance of So What, saying that LaFaro and Kuhn engage in a brief musical dialogue just prior to the return of the theme[improvising] melodic ideas that are intertwined in a conversational manner. Campbell notes that LaFaros accompaniment on Whats New is much more activethan the traditional conventions of ballad playing., It is an interesting fact, Campbell asserts, That the earliest example of LaFaros active, conversational ballad accompaniment was with Steve Kuhn and not Bill Evans. When I ran this claim by Kuhn, he said, I dont agree with that necessarily. See all our current specials here. It was then he fell in love with the tenor saxophone. Jazz. Composer: Urso Then wed go home and have dinner and ice cream. Right there on stage, Stan stopped playing and yelled, MF, Ive got the melody! Notwithstanding flair-ups of this kind, Kuhn says that Getz held LaFaro in the highest regard. Lets call it the chimerical voice of the rhythm sectionas well as what could often be the lead instrument when LaFaro was in your band. Bill Evans Trio. Beginning in 1955, he was a member of the Buddy Morrow big band. Having followed him out to Los Angeles in the late 1950s along with the rest of the LaFaro family, LaFaro-Fernandez still lives in California and continues to answer daily inquiries about her brother, conduct interviews, and ensure his legacy will inform musicians and fans for generations to come. So if you were all living in California, how was it that your brother was near Geneva when he died? When Scotty came east to play with Goodman, he shared a cold-water flat in the East 70s with Freidman that went for $18 a month. [5] He left that organization to work in Los Angeles. In LaFaros short yet meteoric career, he accomplished more than most musicians do over decades. Rocco Scott LaFaro (April 3, 1936 July 6, 1961)[1] was an American jazz double bassist known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio. On date night, people would end up at The Smith. July 6, 1961 in Seneca, NY. Brockton-born alto player and clarinetist Dick Johnson was also on the band. The loss of LaFaro hit Evans hard, and he went into a brief seclusion. Having followed him out to Los Angeles in the late 1950s along with the rest of the LaFaro family, LaFaro-Fernandez still lives in California and continues to answer daily inquiries about her brother, conduct interviews, and ensure his legacy will inform musicians and fans for generations to come. Tom Reneys writings delve into the history and mystery of jazz, blues, and beyond. I return to the idea of the helmsman, because LaFaro always plays as if hes en route to some vital destination, and hes helping to take other musicians there, and, of course, those of us who are listening in. The Getz Quartet, with either Henry Grimes or Jimmy Garrison spelling LaFaro (Kuhn cant recall for certain), was playing that week at Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks. Ornette drew mixed reviews everywhere including Monterey, where his performance of Youll Never Know elicited a scathing review from John Tynan, who said it was patently bad, disturbed, and utterly unhappy. Still, he singled out LaFaro for his brilliant technique and ideas [that] were remarked on by all., Scotty was given to introspective thoughts about where the music was going and what he recognized as the increasing distance between jazzs new direction and the public. All rights reserved. Also, the exertion of a formidable musical will to take what was there, in an act of guidance. A jazz musicians legacy can be a multifarious slope. Put one way: Scott LaFaro was up for it. While driving home late one night his car went off the road and struck a tree. Scott LaFaro was born 64 years ago . At that years Monterey Jazz Festival, LaFaro performed with both the Coleman Quartet and Gunther Schuller. He would have played twenty-four hours a day if he couldHe was learning a mile a minute., Morrows outfit had a big hit with Night Train. The bandleader told Helene, We were a band which was dedicated at the time to mainly rhythm and blues. She writes, What he said not only had an impact on me, but seemed to sum up much of what I had been hearing as I talked to musicians. It remains what is likely Evans' most well-known song,[citation needed] one that he would play throughout his career. Labels. LaFaro-Fernandez: After Scotty played at the Newport Jazz Festival with Stan Getz (July 1961), he went to Geneva to try to convince the people who had been renting our house to buy it. Includes Obituary, Biography, Discography, Photo, and Links. Joining Palombi on this date are Don Friedman and Eliot Zigmund. Stan said fine. Kuhn and drummer Pete LaRoca were Scottys choices, but in the midst of a two-week engagement at the Sutherland Hotel on Chicagos Southside, LaFaro had got tired of LaRocas playing. Chuck and Gap Mangione were among the locals hanging out that night, andJade Visionsincludes Gaps recollection of listening to Chet Bakers recording of Grey December with Scotty. Bassist Scott LaFaro would die in a car accident just ten days after this album's recording, at the age of 25. The three not duplicated here were played only once that day. You know how some people (and you may be one of them) like to go on YouTube and listen to isolated Beach Boys backing vocals and John Bonham drum parts? Other birthdays Monday: Jimmy McGriff, 64; Harold Vick, 19361987; and Eric Kloss, 51. 1.1 Gloria's Step [Take 2] 1.2 My Man's Gone Now 1.3 Solar 1.4 Alice in Wonderland [Take 2] 1.5 All of You [Take 2] 1.6 Jade Visions . Pianist Prez was then a professor at the New England Conservatory; his student, Read More Explaining the Taubman Approach, Everyone knows that Joe Williams sang the hell out of the blues, but do you know what else he sang the hell out of? In May 1960, the Bill Evans Trio joined in a program at Circle in the Square that was devoted to Gunther Schullers jazz compositions. Kuhn remembers hearing that it was a St. Christopher medal that LaFaro always wore that helped to identify his badly burned body. Pictures of people only please! Scott Yanow, All-Music GuideScott LaFaros life and career were cut short in July of 1961. The top of the instrument is a three-piece plate of slab-cut fir; the back is a two-piece plate of moderately flamed maple with an ebony inlay at the center joint; the sides are made of matching maple. Died . This Third Stream affair has jazz as a major tributary vein, and it has LaFaro to thank for it. The young bassist was friends to other artists and art during his all-too brief sojourn upon the mortal coil. It was released in 1962. Tonight Show, 14 Feb 1957. Security video shows a crash in the Reseda neighborhood of Los Angeles which left a driver dead. While his music education began in grade school with piano and then clarinet and tenor saxophone in junior high and high school, he didnt start playing bass until his senior year, and only because a string instrument was required for his enrollment at Ithaca College, where his intent was to major in clarinet and tenor saxophone. Hes just so damn elegant. Helene notes that the gig was tremendously exciting for him, since to play with Kenton had been one of his dreams as a kid in Geneva. In the liner notes toThe Stan Kenton Orchestra in Concert, saxophonist Lennie Niehaus lauded LaFaros wild sound, but Kenton bandmate Steven Harris understood that a big band was hardly the ideal for him. Perhaps one thinks of the contrast, as I do: the balmy New England coast, sailboats alongside the bandstand, and then the hard, unforgiving asphalt of the interstate. In addition to hosting Jazz la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. Fellow bassist Red Mitchell taught him how to pluck strings with both the index and middle fingers independently. Evanss illness resulted in the cancellation of a long engagement opposite Thelonious Monk at the Jazz Gallery. 1926). Killed in a car accident aged just 25, Scott LaFaro was widely regarded as the most technically gifted bassist of the 20th Century. Both Nat Hentoff and Ralph J. Gleason took note. Many believe that Evans never fully recovered from the loss, as well as that it contributed to his pattern of heroin usage, an addiction that would later kill him. Also, Club 86 was bringing in major stars as well. LaFaro left Morrow and settled in Los Angeles in 1957. Evans, according to Motian, would play "I Loves You Porgy," a song with which he and LaFaro became synonymous, almost obsessively, but always as a solo piece. LaFaro is heard soloing while George Duvivierplays the bass riff that Percy Heath had introduced on the first recordings of "Django" by the Modern Jazz Quartet. In his playing you can hear how happy Evans is to have this helmsman at the back of the boatI think it helped him see better at the front. 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Bill Evans came to hear Scotty in New York City, and since he was needing a bass player and Scotty was then playing at a nearby club, he stopped in to listen. HOMETOWN Newark, NJ, United States of America BORN April 3, 1936 Similar Artists Paul Motian. Does anyone have pictures of this bass, or have you seen it in person? The group attended the funeral in Geneva, which Kuhn adds was closed casket., LaFaro's death was devastating to Bill Evans. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. Search Music. ", In 1966, Evans spoke with George Clabinabout what he called his "complexand quick relationship" with Scotty, and said his technique was "built throughintuitive insightand fire, as some kind of a spark in him which took over and he would just grab the bass and he would work and work and work and work and he would just lay it down. Composer: Hawes Showing all 2 results. He was playing mandolin and violin publicly by age 7. Also included is "Porgy", originally omitted for lack of space.[]" LaFaro's death took an enormous emotional toll on Bill Evans, who was, according to drummer Paul Motian, "numb with grief," "in a state of shock," and "like a ghost" after LaFaro's death. In sum, LaFaro visited Geneva, his home town, spent some time with some local friends, drove one of them to visit a mutual friend, left to return to Geneva, fell asleep at the wheel, hit a tree near Flint, NY, seven miles east of Geneva, and burned to death. I was 19 and working. The 25-year-old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock . I adored him, and I was thrilled to be able to work with him. LaFaro-Fernandez: On Sundays our family would go to church, then go to the movies in the afternoon. 52.119.1.55 He stuck with his new hire, offered Scotty the option of plane fare to New York or L.A., and showed him the door. What a natural setting for a multi-ecosystem guy like LaFaro, the dream bassist for a project of this nature, which is jazz, classical, painterly, open yet demonstrative. In Meet Me at Jim & Andy's: Jazz Musicians and Their World, Gene Lees wrote, "The shock of LaFaro's death stayed with Bill for years, and he felt vaguely guilty about itHe felt that because of his heroin habit he had made insufficient use of [their] time togetherAfter LaFaro's death, Bill was like a mane with a lost love, always looking to find its replacement. Sometimes its defined by contrasting stylistic paths that amalgamate into a career, as with Miles Davis. New England Public Media | He played in a trio or quartet at Belhurst from the time he got back until he died. This year The Smith is excited to have National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Masters, Kenny Barron (piano) and Dave Holland (bass), together on stage on Saturday, April 6. Those six numbers with LaFaro making up what became the Booker Little album are a masterclass in postbop bass. For when Jazz Abstractions wrapped, December 21 dawned, and that meant LaFaroalong with Dolphywas boomeranging back to A&R Studios for the landmark waxing of the legendary, epoch-rattling Free Jazz, with a lineup of Dolphy on bass clarinet, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Charlie Haden on bass, and Ed Blackwell on drums in the right channel, and Coleman on alto, Don Cherry on pocket trumpet, Billy Higgins on drums, and LaFaro in the left. It is still so wild to me that he was so influential. The 25-year-old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock to the jazz world." Scott Yanow. In 1959, after working with trumpeter Chet Baker, bandleader Stan Kenton, vibraphonist Cal Tjader,[6] and clarinetist Benny Goodman, LaFaro returned east and joined Bill Evans, who had recently left the Miles Davis Sextet. Evans and Dolphy dont feature on a couple tunes, while LaFaro is the constant. Scott LaFaro - Death. Dave Green joins Alyn Shipton to pick the essential recordings of fellow bassist Scott LaFaro's brief but brilliant career, including work with Bill Evans. John Tynan wrote inDownbeatthat the rhythm duo [LaFaro and Billy Higgins] were the baddest cats on the date. Performers: Pat Moran, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Gene Gammage, d. 1958. He was visiting some friends west of Geneva and was driving home late when he crashed. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. This year The Smith is excited to have National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Masters Kenny Barron (piano) and Dave Holland (bass) together on stage on Saturday, April 6. Bassist Scott LaFaro of Geneva had already achieved acclaim when he died in a car accident at the age of 25. But its a moment were meant to be a part of, that both surrounds us and is for us. My mom was still pregnant with my last sister. 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