LaFaro-Fernandez: My father passed away (from a heart attack) in 1957. Brother man, I can all but hear Ornette saying, we are going to blow some minds tomorrow.. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. 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. How did that happen? Scott LaFaro - Artist Details. As such, the album is a sort of memorial record for him; all of the tracks featured were either written by him, or feature a bass solo performed by him as the centerpiece of the track. [My] early years at the university were thoroughly engaging intellectually but were also a time of deep introspection. But he was best known for his collaborations and recordings with the Bill Evans Trio. DSD 128 fs (2) DSD 64 fs (2) . LaFaro was honored in 2012 in Geneva, where a street was renamed Scott LaFaro Drive and an annual Scott LaFaroDay was inaugurated. Everything. It remains what is likely Evans' most well-known song,[citation needed] one that he would play throughout his career. LaFaro joined the Bill Evans Trio in 1959 and, although he would record with Ornette Coleman (including Free Jazz) and gig with Stan Getz, the bassist is best-remembered for his association with Evans, particularly their Village Vanguard recordings of 1961. This was Scottys home, and he would practice bass facing the corner in the living room because he could better hear the sound quality. [15][16], According to Joachim Berendt, LaFaro's innovative approach to the bass caused "emancipation", introducing "so many diverse possibilities as would have been thought impossible for the bass only a short time before". Jazz. We would explore all around our neighborhood on West Street our house was where the elementary school is. I was also told by classical bass players that this also changed things for them because as was with all music pretty much up until then, the bass was considered more of a rhythm instrument only. My mom was still pregnant with my last sister. He had an incredible ear. Then wed go home and have dinner and ice cream. It was there his career exploded. Search for: Search. The trio attracted attention for its style. Once he got the gig, his college days were over. Bill Evans Trio. Its the top of the sheet, instead of the coarseness of the winter blanket. They worked together with vocalist Dick Haymes, whose road show included dancers and a comic. Labels. Tonight Show, 14 Feb 1957. [citation needed], By late 1960, LaFaro was in demand as a bassist. 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. We think of LaFaro as a jazz bassist with leanings toward classical music; its the lan, I think. Scott Yanow, All-Music Guide Scott LaFaro's life and career were cut short in July of 1961. Its there for a reason, and thats not solely to complement the proof of the magic that occurred at a New York City club in late June 1961. Other birthdays Monday: Jimmy McGriff, 64; Harold Vick, 19361987; and Eric Kloss, 51. The rest is told in his gripping visuals, The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist. Each year during the first week of April, The Smith hosts the Scott LaFaro Day Celebration concert that features a contemporary bass player. Also, the exertion of a formidable musical will to take what was there, in an act of guidance. The car, tree and garage all caught fire. Tracks such as "Solar" (RealAudio excerpt), from the Village Vanguard sessions, highlight his ability to play high notes with surprising speed. Ornette Coleman was another musician who appeared on the Jazz Abstractions datebut as with Dolphy and Evans, on just half the recordand I often imagine the conversations he might have had with LaFaro during breaks and between takes about what Coleman had in mind for the next day. [3] He took up double bass at 18 before entering college because learning a string instrument was required of music education majors. Performers: Thad Jones, tp; Herb Geller, as; Billy Taylor, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Elvin Jones, d. June 1959. Did you and your brother spend time at the Smith Opera House (which was Schines Geneva Theatre back then)? Q: When did your brother start getting interested in music? He took up bass because he was required to play a stringed instrument at Ithaca College. Hes just so damn elegant. My sense has always been that the music of this slipstream space needs him, all but knocks on his door and asks the helmsman to come out again. Musician. 4 or The Paradox of Continuity, The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waltz_for_Debby_(1962_album)&oldid=1139601889, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2021, Articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Note on the alternate takes: "For this CD release, alternate versions of three of the six selections have been inserted just after the ones originally chosen for issuance.[] 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. A professor encouraged him to audition for an open spot in the Buddy Morrow Orchestra. LaFaro is one of those players who register to the ears like more than one man, generating a huge amount of sound with ostensibly little effort, and that sound resonating as direct, controlled, economical; this is part of the reason why. These two albums, recorded less than two weeks prior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_rZZusz90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbTEgBEaEM4. ", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIzbINNrqcQ. 2023 Madavor Media, LLC. we do worse! Jim Hall. Your family ended up following Scotty out to California. So they were constantly trying for fresh approaches and fresh improvisationsAnd Bill told me, I remember it exactly, If I played the same lick on a tune two nights in a row, the next time I playe dit Scott would play it with me in harmonyhe would actually harmonize it so that at that point it was time for me to get rid of that lick and move on to something else.Is that what LaFaro was trying to bring to Getzs attention at the Blackhawk? Evans stopped performing for several months. Died . LaFaro was killed in a car accident near his hometown of Geneva, N.Y., at age 25. There is a creek that ran through the park, it would go up past Shuron Optical where they used this rouge chemical to make glass lenses, so the creek was always red. Scottys death was hard on my Mom. Our Dad was from here. Performance & security by Cloudflare. To top it off, the old cars didn't have self-sealing gas tanks and as in the case of LaFaro's accident, if they ruptured, frequently resulted in fire. The young bassist was friends to other artists and art during his all-too brief sojourn upon the mortal coil. Read more about this topic: Scott LaFaro, Time is here and youll go his way.Your lung is waiting in the death market.Your face beside me will grow indifferent.Darling, you will yield up your belly and becored like an apple.Anne Sexton (19281974), Poor fellow never joyed since the price of oats rose, it wasthe death of him.William Shakespeare (15641616), Ai! The last day was recorded for two albums, Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby.[8]. 1926). Scotty sort of led the way on the bass becoming a solo instrument in its own right. Shortly after, their collaboration began. [14] On April 4, 2014 a ceremony to rename a downtown street Scott LaFaro Drive took place. It is these performances, currently available as Sunday at The Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby that comprise the number one best jazz live recording in this present series. 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. While driving home late one night his car went off the road and struck a tree. After three months at Ithaca College, he concentrated on bass. Bud Powell. It is LaFaros bass that makes this thing go, such as it does go. LaFaro died in an automobile accident on July 6, 1961 in Flint, New York on U.S. Route 20 between Geneva and Canandaigua, four days after accompanying Stan Getz . 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. Free Jazz did that kind of splicing and segmenting for you, as part of, neatly enough, its original integrated sonic package. LaFaro-Fernandez, Helen; Ralston, Chuck; Campbell, Jeffrey R.; Palombi, Phil (2009). Los Angeles Fire Department crews were called to the scene to extinguish the blaze. His death came just ten days after recording two live albums with the Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby, albums considered among the finest live jazz recordings. There is a creek that ran through the park, it would go up past Shuron Optical where they used this rouge chemical to make glass lenses, so the creek was always red. Composer: Rosolino 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. The entire day's recordings were released in 2005 as The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961. The 25-year-old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock to the jazz world." Scott Yanow. You can read our interview with Holland here. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Though hed previously appeared onGolden Trombonewith Buddy Morrow,The Arrival of Victor Feldmanwas essentially the first LP that showcased his singular gifts. LaFaro began by practicing his fingers off. My father passed away (from a heart attack) in 1957. What were Scotts childhood and teen years like here in Geneva? I adored him, and I was thrilled to be able to work with him. Shortly after, he acquired a bass made in 1825 in Concord, New Hampshire by Abraham Prescott. Scott LaFaro was born 64 years ago today. I never knew how Scotty felt about my playing until Paul told me later that the first time Paul heard me it was because Scotty had dragged him out in a snowstorm, "You've got to hear this great bass player with Ornette!"[18]. 2023 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. Performers: Pat Moran, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Gene Gammage, d. 1958. For much of 1958, LaFaro was with pianist/vibraphonist Victor Feldman's band. Paul Motian was on drums, Nobby Totah on bass. Yes, the Evans dynamic provided him with a perfect setting. 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. He wanted the conversation back and forth between each of the players, and he wanted to play melody. Everyone would say Dont go to the creek! but we did anyway, and would come home with red shoes. Q: So if you were all living in California, how was it that your brother was near Geneva when he died? Is that a bass thing? Performers: Chet Baker, tp; Phil Urso, ts; Francy Boland, p; Larance Marable, d; Scott LaFaro, b. Q: Your family ended up following Scotty out to California. We never got to enjoy it as a concert venue in our day, unfortunately. 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. Ted Gioia, in his 1997 survey,The History of Jazz, said, "LaFarotook far greater chances, departing markedly from the traditional walking line, instead offering countermelodies and guitar-like phrases. 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. This article is about the 1961 Village Vanguard recordings. Sign in to continue reading, Sixty years after the bass greats untimely death, a look at his musical legacy beyond the Bill Evans Trio. He said, Man, youve gotta hear this. You may additional context in comments. 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. While driving home late one nighthis car went off the road and struck a tree. Celebrating the life of Genevas legendary jazz bass hero Scott LaFaro has become an annual event at the Smith Opera House, ever since the City of Geneva declared April 3, his birthday, as Scott LaFaro Day in 2014. On Sundays our family would go to church, then go to the movies in the afternoon. I dont blame him, said Morrow. Toggle filters. 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. He was a musician from age 4. Search Music. 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. Everyone would say Dont go to the creek! but we did anyway, and would come home with red shoes. 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. A post-bass bass player, maybe. See all our current specials here. Composer: Gillespie 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. When Scotty was in sixth grade we took our first piano lessons. "Route 66" songwriter Bobby Troup was the show's host. Not long after he arrived on campus, he gave his clarinet away to a classmate. Despite his short career, he remains one of the most influential jazz bassists, and was ranked number 16 on Bass Player magazine's top 100 bass players of all time.[2]. He got his first professional experience playing bass at Belhurst (with my fathers group). There is also a street off of Seneca Street, just across from the Smith Opera House, that has been renamed Scott LaFaro Way. Then wed go home and have dinner and ice cream. Beginning in 1955, he was a member of the Buddy Morrow big band. In 2009 she published a biography about him, Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro. Tom holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he majored in English and African American Studies. Fellow bassist Red Mitchell taught him how to pluck strings with both the index and middle fingers independently. 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. 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. Death. 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. 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. Kuhn remembers hearing that it was a St. Christopher medal that LaFaro always wore that helped to identify his badly burned body. 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. Scott Yanow, All-Music GuideScott LaFaros life and career were cut short in July of 1961. Youre freeboomto lock in on LaFaro, and I do that quite a bit. The Scott La Faro book was wonderful. In Jade Visionshe says, Scott wasnt what one would consider a big band bass player. Chicago, 1956. Like Evans, Kuhn, whod arrived on the New York scene in 1959 as a 21-year-old Harvard grad, was being managed by Helen Keane. Colin Fleming writes fiction and nonfiction on myriad topicsart, film, music, sports, literature, current eventsfor a wide range of publications, and talks regularly on radio and podcasts. Here is a verbal snapshot of that conversation, edited for clarity. Well, Michael Cera did play a bassist in Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. LaFaro died in an automobile accident on July 6, 1961 in Flint, New York on U.S. Route 20 between Geneva and Canandaigua, four days after accompanying Stan Getz at the Newport Jazz Festival. After that touch of piano, he really started to enjoy music and develop a keen awareness of what it was all about. Born 1936 in Newark, N.J., La Faro studied clarinet and tenor sax as a boy, but in college switched to bass. April 3, 1936 in Newark, NJ. 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. The 25-year old Scott LaFaros death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock to the jazz world. He waited until we got interested, and then he was totally supportive. Pictures of people only please! Expansive range was a totem of the LaFaro sound, the idea that the bass was so much a bass that it was also not a bass and more than a bass. In LaFaros short yet meteoric career, he accomplished more than most musicians do over decades. The all-timer live session that produced the aforementioned discs is rounded out by two studio LPs, Portrait in Jazz (1960) and Explorations (1961), which I sense are not listened to as much as they ought to be, but the Vanguard date is sufficiently lambent that it pulls us to it, which is good on one handthis is one sweet, invigorating flameand less than ideal on the other, because Scott LaFaro (who, along with Jimmy Blanton, Id posit as jazzs most important bassist) was a lot more, and did a lot more, than the prevailing narrative would have us believe. Composer: Porter: Scotty and I were born in New Jersey but we moved back to Geneva in 1942. Before that grim July night, LaFaro had been a busy bassist. Genre. He played in a trio or quartet at Belhurst from the time he got back until he died. Find him on the web at colinfleminglit.com (where he maintains the unique online journal, the Many Moments Moreblog) and on Twitter @colinfleminglit. LaFaro burned like a meteorite, rising to the top rank of bassists in a few short years and working with a Whos Who ofjazzgreats in the compressed time frame preceding his death at age 25. Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFarorecounts how three days after his appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival with the Stan Getz Quartet, hed driven to Geneva, NY to take care of some business related to his mothers home there. The group includes Victor Feldman, Stan Levey, and trombonist Frank Rosolino. Security video shows a crash in the Reseda neighborhood of Los Angeles which left a driver dead. We were like brothers., Six months before the session with Kuhn, LaFaro recorded with trumpeter Booker Little on April 13 and 15. The helmsman remains present to take us many places where we otherwise might not have gone, and no one has steered that ship better than Scott LaFaro. When did your brother start getting interested in music? Joe LaBarbera, who drummed in the trio with Evans and Johnson, says, Bill said regarding Scott and the music, that Scott hated it when it remained the same. Composer: Hawes Thanks to Rifftides readers Frank Roellinger and Svetlana Ilyicheva for alerting us that last Thursday, Geneva honored LaFaro on his 78th birthday by proclaiming April 3rd its first annual Scott LaFaro Day. [10] The important thing is his art while he lived. LaFaro-Fernandez: Scotty and I were born in New Jersey but we moved back to Geneva in 1942. An investigation is underway after two people were killed in a crash involving a big rig along the . As was, really, LaFaro. His sense of time was freer, less tied to the ground beat, than any jazz bassist had previously acheivedIt is not going too far to see this short-lived trio as redefining the nature of the jazz rhythm section. Youll have to adjust your ears, but theyll fall into line quickly. ", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Z8KuwI7Gc, Jade Visionscredits the demo session that LaFaro made with Steve Kuhn and Pete LaRoca nearly a year later as one where this conversational approach to group dynamics was evident. But you always knew that Read More Kelly Sill, Several years ago, one of Danilo Prezs students was suffering from tendinitis. Born in Newark, New Jersey, United States,[1] the son of a big band musician, LaFaro was five when his family moved to Geneva, New York. Published since 1970, JazzTimesAmericas Jazz Magazineprovides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the jazz scene. 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. 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. Former Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Erickson has been charged in connection with a hit-and-run crash in Westlake Village that killed two . She recalls that Zoot Sims so impressed her brother that he was impatient for the intermission to end, and that bassist Leroy Vinnegar hummed all the while he was playing, a habit Scotty later developed as well. Helene says he talked about seeing Duke Ellington for weeks, shaking his head in disbelief of howthey could fool with the melody and make it so much more. As for religion, she says that whenever shes asked, I always answer, We went wherever the music was best. That was Dads criterion, be it a mass at a Roman Catholic church or Friday evening Shabbat dinner at the cantors home., Scottys first instruments were piano, clarinet, and tenor saxophone. 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. In high school Scotty played clarinet and tenor saxophone, in spite of not being happy about a lip injury he got playing basketball at the Y. LaFaro completed his first year at Ithaca, but not his second. [7], In June 1961, the Bill Evans trio began two weeks of performances at the Village Vanguard in New York City. Both Nat Hentoff and Ralph J. Gleason took note. I was 19 and working. Helene makes no secret of LaFaros exacting standards and competitive personality, and she quotes many who testify to the same. At the time it was such a revolutionary idea, and it ushered in a sea change for jazz. The great bassist is best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio between 1959 and '61, and for the tragic car accident that claimed his life on July 6, 1961, two weeks after the trio's . 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