This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 08:03. Kuhn is uncertain about exactly where he met LaFaro, but says it was most likely when he heard the Evans trio at the Five Spot late in 1959. LaFaro-Fernandez, Helen; Ralston, Chuck; Campbell, Jeffrey R.; Palombi, Phil (2009). Scotty was on the road at the time, in California. The young bassist was friends to other artists and art during his all-too brief sojourn upon the mortal coil. 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. My dad loved the director, so we had to go and have that experience as well. By City News Service. She had lost her husband, then four years later lost her son, and she still had young kids to raise. The album included five tracks recorded in New York City during 1961 with pianist Don Friedman and drummer Pete LaRoca.[13]. So if you were all living in California, how was it that your brother was near Geneva when he died? LaFaro was honored in 2012 in Geneva, where a street was renamed Scott LaFaro Drive and an annual Scott LaFaroDay was inaugurated. Kuhn remembers hearing that it was a St. Christopher medal that LaFaro always wore that helped to identify his badly burned body. [3] He took up double bass at 18 before entering college because learning a string instrument was required of music education majors. 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. He lives in Boston and has contributed toJazzTimessince 2006. Performers: Thad Jones, tp; Herb Geller, as; Billy Taylor, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Elvin Jones, d. June 1959. In the latter case, Getz fired LaRoca and hired Roy Haynes, but Kenton wasn't about to be second-guessed. Click to reveal Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Brother man, I can all but hear Ornette saying, we are going to blow some minds tomorrow.. They worked together with vocalist Dick Haymes, whose road show included dancers and a comic. They spent so much time discussing music, listening to records, at the piano, they were inseparable. He was with Buddy Morrows band (1955-56), toured with Chet Baker (1956-57) and worked during the next few years with Ira Sullivan, Barney Kessel, Cal Tjader and Benny Goodman among others. The tendency is to associate him with classical predilections, but here he is at one of the zeitgeist-shaking avant-garde sessions, and boy, does he drive the sound. Bassist Marc Johnson, who was with Evans between 1978 and his death in 1980, wrote in the liner notes forPieces of Jadethat the Vanguard performance was the highest measure of Scotts musical vision. InJade Visions, he says, I must have listened to those recordingsthousands of timesTo this day, I still dont see how Scott articulated his ideas with such startling clarity and velocity., Johnson also speaks for the continuing hold that the recordings have on listeners touched by their emotional richness. He died near Geneva in an auto accident in 1961. Each year during the first week of April, The Smith hosts the Scott LaFaro Day Celebration concert that features a contemporary bass player. During World War II the club scene changed and he came back to Geneva where he could find work. The car, tree and garage all caught fire. After that touch of piano, he really started to enjoy music and develop a keen awareness of what it was all about. The 25-year-old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock to the jazz world." Scott Yanow. Friedman relates inJade Visions,He used to play my piano, and was very interested in minor 7thchords with the flat 5th. LaFaro went on to perform with Victor Feldman, Chet Baker, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, Stan Getz and Ornette Coleman. Born . Killed in a car accident aged just 25, Scott LaFaro was widely regarded as the most technically gifted bassist of the 20th Century. This is the best piano player Ive ever heard. It was Evanss 1956 debut album,New Jazz Conceptions. He emphasized high notes, could play with great speed and his interplay with Bill Evans in their trio was mutually stimulating and influential. In the mid 1950s, at the Los Angeles music scene, he became known as one of. 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. Then wed go home and have dinner and ice cream. Its the top of the sheet, instead of the coarseness of the winter blanket. ~ Scott Yanow. When Evans returned to the trio format later in 1962, it was with Motian and bassist Chuck Israels.[2]. When we were in junior high school, Godfrey Brown, the head of the high school music department, would come there to recruit for positions they needed to fill in the band and orchestra. Born 1936 in Newark, N.J., La Faro studied clarinet and tenor sax as a boy, but in college switched to bass. 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. You can read our interview with Holland. 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. He was excited. On December 19 and 20, he took part in John Lewis, Gunther Schuller, and Jim Halls Jazz Abstractions sessions, with buddy Bill Evans and Eric Dolphy. 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. While driving home late one nighthis car went off the road and struck a tree. We decided to move the family to California. 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. Not long after he arrived on campus, he gave his clarinet away to a classmate. Tom was honored by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting in 2019. Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, and others were also featured, and LaFaro drew notice from Dan Morgenstern inMetronomefor a solo remarkable for its technical skill and musical weight. The piece was Schullers Variants on a Theme by John Lewis (Django), which he would also appear on in December when Schullers work was recorded for the Atlantic Records release,Jazz Abstractions. Around this time he received a greeting card from Miles Davis suggesting that Davis wanted to hire him. He was a tremendous talent [who] wanted to go on to greener pastures.Over the next two years, Scotty toured the country with Chet Baker, and worked around L.A. with Hampton Hawes, Harold Land, Buddy DeFranco, Richie Kamuca, Joe Gordon, and Stan Kenton. Tom Reneys writings delve into the history and mystery of jazz, blues, and beyond. He played sessions at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, and roomed with fellow bassist Charlie Haden, who recalled the first time LaFaro mentioned Bill Evans. Musician. 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. I quit very fast, but he was a natural. 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. My mom was still pregnant with my last sister. Labels. 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. He was in his second year at college to study music when he joined Buddy Morrow's band and went on a cross country tour. 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. Just about any jazz fan knows that on June 25, the 25-year-old had been in NYC as part of Bill Evans trio at the Village Vanguard, cutting the Sunday live date that will be reissued and repackaged so long as the earth continues to spin. comments . 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. Those six numbers with LaFaro making up what became the Booker Little album are a masterclass in postbop bass. AMAGANSETT, N.Y. - Acclaimed tenor saxophonist Robert Berg was killed Thursday when a cement truck skidded across a snow-slicked road and rammed into his sport utility vehicle, East Hampton police said. Former Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Erickson has been charged in connection with a hit-and-run crash in Westlake Village that killed two . He remembered that Scotty was dressed up for the Newport appearance. Later we moved to Elmwood Place, and during the summer we would spend many of our days at the Brook Street Playground. Though hed previously appeared onGolden Trombonewith Buddy Morrow,The Arrival of Victor Feldmanwas essentially the first LP that showcased his singular gifts. Postings here are the last known photographs or videos of a person. It was an idyllic childhood. ai! Is that a jazz thing? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The 25-year-old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock . Bassist Scott LaFaro of Geneva had already achieved acclaim when he died in a car accident at the age of 25. 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. The bass was badly damaged in the automobile accident that killed him, but was eventually restored and is sporadically used in performance to honor LaFaro. Performers: Hampton Hawes, p; Harold Land, ts; Scott Lafaro, b; Frank Butler, d. 14 Mar 1958. And how does it go? He became a professional musician in New York City during the Roaring 20s. The highlight of the session was Scotts original, Misery (to Lady Day). Evans biographer Peter Pettinger said of the dedication to Billie Holiday, Not much happens, but a wavelength is established. Q: Did you and your brother spend time at the Smith Opera House (which was Schines Geneva Theatre back then)? Helene makes no secret of LaFaros exacting standards and competitive personality, and she quotes many who testify to the same. The loss of LaFaro hit Evans hard, and he went into a brief seclusion. My mom was still pregnant with my last sister. 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. LaFaro continued to play this bass until his death. Composer: Hawes Composer: Gillespie Security video shows a crash in the Reseda neighborhood of Los Angeles which left a driver dead. 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. Scott Yanow, All-Music GuideScott LaFaros life and career were cut short in July of 1961. As weve already noted regarding the time period right around his tragic death, LaFaro packed a lot of art into his days. A Dead Musician Directory Celebrity Page. He felt such a strong passion for the bass that he became obsessed with practicing, spending countless hours in the rehearsal rooms at Ithaca College. Put one way: Scott LaFaro was up for it. Those years of self-discovery can be challenging at times and those moments found their perfect expression in the Village Vanguard SessionsI listened to that music for so many hours that it became my constant silent companion and a beacon of hope.. 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. 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. What were Scotts childhood and teen years like here in Geneva? 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. He wanted the conversation back and forth between each of the players, and he wanted to play melody. Shortly after, their collaboration began. MTV, EMA and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc. 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The music of Jazz Abstractions proceeds as a series of shadings, which tend to be called variants on the finished LP. Our Dad was from here. Later we moved to Elmwood Place, and during the summer we would spend many of our days at the Brook Street Playground. Haynes shared with Scotty a fastidiousness about clothing, and hed just been named toEsquiresBest-Dressed list. Scotty had the concept for a trio to be conversational instead of the classic structure, instead of bass and drummer just keeping time. Died . LaFaro began by practicing his fingers off. Geller recalls that at the end of Scottys first night with the clarinetist, the two went around to hear Bill Evans. 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. Scotty also befriended the pianist-composer Victor Feldman, and recorded with him and drummer Stan Levey in January 1958. Thats his brand of intimacy: the sensation of the stolen moment. 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 legendary performance at the Village Vanguard. Such is the legacy of bassist Scott LaFaro, though I would suggest that what was was more than we often think. Also in 2009, the University of North Texas Press published Jade Visions, a biography of LaFaro by his sister Helene LaFaro-Fernandez, with an extensive discography. Jim Hall. Evans and Dolphy dont feature on a couple tunes, while LaFaro is the constant. You can read our interview with Holland here. Little, another ill-fated star of the period who died at 23 in October 1961, described LaFaro in the liner notes as distant, but closea paradox that resolves only for those who were simpatico. He also recognized Scottys distinctiveness as an innovator who was much more of a conversationalist behind you than any other bassist I know[Hes] technicallyabout the greatest bassist we have. Remarking on the solo LaFaro plays on Bee Tees Minor Plea, the trumpeter said, The bass is a crude and rude instrument, but Scott makes it into something else. Helene says Scotty would have loved being described as something else, since I could remember how excited [he] was when he brought around to play for me the first record of Ornettes he owned,Something Else.. He took up bass because he was required to play a stringed instrument at Ithaca College. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. 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. ), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gzwXQGvXgc, LaFaro signed on with Stan Kenton for a tour in the spring of 1959. 1926). 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. But its a moment were meant to be a part of, that both surrounds us and is for us. But you always knew that Read More Kelly Sill, Several years ago, one of Danilo Prezs students was suffering from tendinitis. 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. LaFaro took the opportunity, and he was the trios helmsman. [10] Obsessively he played "I Loves You Porgy", a song that had become synonymous with him and LaFaro. Pianist Walter Norris described him as a "wild fire," and said "he never used any stimulants to enhance life, but his every moment was seriously lived to the fullest." Here is a verbal snapshot of that conversation, edited for clarity. Motian operated the same way; if anything, he was even more of a painter than the leader. Composer: Hammerstein II / Kern The trio attracted attention for its style. The Jazz la Mode Blog has plenty to stimulate your interest and curiosity in American music. In 2009, Resonance Records reissued five tracks from Memories for Scotty on Pieces of Jade, together with twenty-two minutes of LaFaro and Bill Evans practising "My Foolish Heart" during a rehearsal in 1960. In Jade Visionshe says, Scott wasnt what one would consider a big band bass player. Performers: Pat Moran, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Gene Gammage, d. 1958. Providing entertainment, education, and the energizing force that pulls us all together in celebration of great work. 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]. Bassist Scott LaFaro of Geneva had already achieved acclaim when he died in a car accident at the age of 25. Gloria Gabriel was one of the dancers. Its no knock on Charlie Hadena formidable pioneer himselfto say that if hes a bass player, LaFaro is something else, to use the Coleman argot. 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. 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 heard what I was doing at the piano, and I heard what he was doing. 1998 Kevin Crosby. Search Music. Well, Michael Cera did play a bassist in Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. The title track, a musical portrait of Evans' niece, became a staple of his live repertoire in later years. He started playing piano in elementary school, bass clarinet in middle school, and tenor saxophone when he entered high school. Killed in a car accident aged just 25, Scott LaFaro was widely regarded as the most technically gifted bassist of the 20th Century. Victor Feldman. The 25-year-old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock to the jazz world. Oscar Peterson Trio . Our Dad was from here. In 2007, 46 years later, Roy introduced Helene to the great bassist Christian McBride. It was then he fell in love with the tenor saxophone. Already a member? I was 19 and working. LaFaro spent most of his days practicing his instrument. Youre freeboomto lock in on LaFaro, and I do that quite a bit. They needed a bass clarinetist, and he promised Scotty that he would be allowed to play clarinet and eventually the tenor sax if he took that position. 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. Toggle filters. 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. Hes just so damn elegant. He insisted that Stan fire LaRoca and hire Roy Haynes, and Stan was so impressed with how strong and unique he was that he acceded to his wishes.. 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 trios legendary performance at the Village Vanguard. And there truly couldn't be a better way to . 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. LaFaro-Fernandez: 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. It was there his career exploded. On Sundays our family would go to church, then go to the movies in the afternoon. Jan. 30, 2021 1:47 PM PT. LaFaro continued to divide his time between Getz, Ornette, and Evans in 1961. Brockton-born alto player and clarinetist Dick Johnson was also on the band. 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. Often controversial, always entertaining, JazzTimes is a favorite of musicians and fans alike. This Third Stream affair has jazz as a major tributary vein, and it has LaFaro to thank for it. There was great rapport. It was an idyllic childhood. Scotty and I rented a house for Mom and the girls, I got married a few months later and (soon) we all moved into a new house in a new development in West Hills. A driver was killed when a car crashed into a home in the Hancock Park . Such is the legacy of bassist Scott LaFaro, though I would suggest that what was was more than we often think. He got his first professional experience playing bass at Belhurst (with my fathers group). In his liner notes, producer Orrin Keepnews focused on the phenomenon of Bill Evans thepianist, but the lone paragraph devoted to the other members of the trio noted that they werent limited toconventional rhythmic backing, and cited Autumn Leaves, as a harbinger of things to come. It is well remembered as the final performance by the Evans trio of the time, which included bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian. A stacked bass makes for a stacked musical deck. 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. California had affordable education, and we could all go to college. Evans stopped performing for several months. 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. Composer: Styne / Sondheim What kind of influence did your father have on your brothers music? He was his own thing. Composer: Urso [7], In June 1961, the Bill Evans trio began two weeks of performances at the Village Vanguard in New York City. Q: What kind of influence did your father have on your brothers music? He recorded with pianist Don Friedman as well. Scott LaFaro was born 64 years ago . Available Qualities. In addition to hosting Jazz la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. 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