He says that word of the accident reached Getz over the wire through his manager Jack Whittemore, and that all were incredulous at the news. He started playing piano in elementary school, bass clarinet in middle school, and tenor saxophone when he entered high school. 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. Before that grim July night, LaFaro had been a busy bassist. It has rolled corners on the bottom and very sloped shoulders on the top, making it easier to get in and out of thumb position. RE: Person I Knew is a tribute to bass legend Scott LaFaro, who died tragically in a car accident 50 years ago this year at the age of 25.Phil Palombi plays the EXACT bass that made Scotty a legend on the Bill Evans Trio, Live at the Village Vanguard Sessions!. It remains what is likely Evans' most well-known song,[citation needed] one that he would play throughout his career. Performers: Hampton Hawes, p; Harold Land, ts; Scott Lafaro, b; Frank Butler, d. 14 Mar 1958. 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? Each year during the first week of April, The Smith hosts the Scott LaFaro Day Celebration concert that features a contemporary bass player. 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. Q: Your family ended up following Scotty out to California. It was an idyllic childhood. Once he got the gig, his college days were over. We decided to move the family to California. He was a musician from age 4. Composer: Hawes My dad loved the director, so we had to go and have that experience as well. Performers: Thad Jones, tp; Herb Geller, as; Billy Taylor, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Elvin Jones, d. June 1959. Composer: Coleman 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. Scotty also befriended the pianist-composer Victor Feldman, and recorded with him and drummer Stan Levey in January 1958. He emphasized high notes, could play with great speed and his interplay with Bill Evans in their trio was mutually stimulating and influential. While driving home late one nighthis car went off the road and struck a tree. 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. He played a lot of top, cymbals, and Scotty wanted more drums, says Kuhn. This was Scottys home, and he would practice bass facing the corner in the living room because he could better hear the sound quality. 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. His records with Bill Evans are among the finest jazz trio discs . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. As was, really, LaFaro. DSD 128 fs (2) DSD 64 fs (2) . 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. Youre freeboomto lock in on LaFaro, and I do that quite a bit. 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. Not long after he arrived on campus, he gave his clarinet away to a classmate. I get 10 to 12 emails a day asking about Scotty. We never got to enjoy it as a concert venue in our day, unfortunately. 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. [citation needed], By late 1960, LaFaro was in demand as a bassist. 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. In the mid 1950s, at the Los Angeles music scene, he became known as one of. We would explore all around our neighborhood on West Street our house was where the elementary school is. The loss of LaFaro hit Evans hard, and he went into a brief seclusion. 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. AllMusic Quiz. Hes just so damn elegant. A jazz musicians legacy can be a multifarious slope. Everything. It will be observed on his birthday anniversary, April 3. 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 entire day's recordings were released in 2005 as The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961. But its a moment were meant to be a part of, that both surrounds us and is for us. Three of the tunes from their setBaubles, Bangles and Beads; Where Do You Go; and Airegin were released on CD in 1994. Providing entertainment, education, and the energizing force that pulls us all together in celebration of great work. They worked together with vocalist Dick Haymes, whose road show included dancers and a comic. His most recent books are an entry in the 33 1/3series on Sam CookesLive at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, a volume about the 1951 film Scrooge as the ultimate work of cinematic terror, and the story collection, If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope. When Scotty was in sixth grade we took our first piano lessons. Bassist Dave Green joins Alyn Shipton to pick the highlights of these, and to trace the other significant records in LaFaro's brief but brilliant career. The rest is told in his gripping visuals, The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist. "[12], In 1988, Insights label of RVC Corporation in Japan released Memories for Scotty. [9], Writing for AllMusic, music critic Thom Jurek wrote of the album: "While the Sunday at the Village Vanguard album focused on material where LaFaro soloed prominently, this is far more a portrait of the trio on those dates Of the many recordings Evans issued, the two Vanguard dates and Explorations are the ultimate expressions of his legendary trio. Gloria Gabriel was one of the dancers. Bassist Scott LaFaro of Geneva had already achieved acclaim when he died in a car accident at the age of 25. Yes, the Evans dynamic provided him with a perfect setting. 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. He waited until we got interested, and then he was totally supportive. Bassist Scott LaFaro of Geneva had already achieved acclaim when he died in a car accident at the age of 25. Born in Irvington, New Jersey, the son of a big band musician, Rocco Scott LaFaro (April 3, 1936 - July 6, 1961) was five when his family moved to Geneva, New York. LaFaro was taken from this world 60 years ago, on July 6, 1961, in Flint, New York, where he was involved in an auto accident a few days after playing with Stan Getz at Newport. Bill Evans Trio. May 23, 2021. You can read our interview with Holland. 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. 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. 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. Scott Yanow, All-Music GuideScott LaFaros life and career were cut short in July of 1961. Free Jazz did that kind of splicing and segmenting for you, as part of, neatly enough, its original integrated sonic package. we do worse! In 2009 she published a biography about him, Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro. Composer: Urso Also, Club 86 was bringing in major stars as well. The last day was recorded for two albums, Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby.[8]. Brockton-born alto player and clarinetist Dick Johnson was also on the band. We all knew something important was going to happen with this guy., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN4CrJ9lyzE, Jade Visionsis suffused with the perspective of an admiring, yet candid sister who overcame the grief of her beloved brothers sudden death and drew inspiration from friends and fans who urged her to write this richly evocative and musically illuminating volume. What were Scotts childhood and teen years like here in Geneva? [5] He left that organization to work in Los Angeles. Dad (Joe LaFaro) never forced us to play music. Here is a verbal snapshot of that conversation, edited for clarity. [17], When I was in L.A., Scotty LaFaro and I roomed together. We think of LaFaro as a jazz bassist with leanings toward classical music; its the lan, I think. By. Published since 1970, JazzTimesAmericas Jazz Magazineprovides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the jazz scene. There is fealty and gratitude in Evans approach to that famed date, and we have our early summer day out with the best of chums, people we feel are our musical friends. According to Paul Motian, the death of LaFaro left Bill Evans "numb with grief", "in a state of shock", and "like a ghost". Ornettes group with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell played the Village Gate for three weeks in August and September followed by engagements in Philadelphia and Detroit. 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. An investigation is underway after two people were killed in a crash involving a big rig along the . You can read our interview with Holland here. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. The young bassist was friends to other artists and art during his all-too brief sojourn upon the mortal coil. I suppose technically, yes, though its also far more, and thats a LaFaro thing. Everyone would say Dont go to the creek! but we did anyway, and would come home with red shoes. He was playing mandolin and violin publicly by age 7. Showing all 2 results. LaFaro continued to divide his time between Getz, Ornette, and Evans in 1961. Does anyone have pictures of this bass, or have you seen it in person? It was released in 1962. He quoted Evans, who said, Im hoping the trio will grow in the direction of simultaneous improvisationIf the bass player, for example, hears an idea that he wants to answer, why should he just keep playing a background?, Scotty, of course, heard and answered plenty of ideas. Former Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Erickson has been charged in connection with a hit-and-run crash in Westlake Village that killed two . LaFaro-Fernandez, Helen; Ralston, Chuck; Campbell, Jeffrey R.; Palombi, Phil (2009). 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 . 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. This is the best piano player Ive ever heard. It was Evanss 1956 debut album,New Jazz Conceptions. My dad took Scotty to see anyone who came there, or to Syracuse or Rochester. Nearly six decades later, Helene LaFaro-Fernandez continues to keep her older brothers flame alive. A driver was killed when a car crashed into a home in the Hancock Park . What happened to your brother after Ithaca College? 52.119.1.55 Geller said Goodman was unhappy with his current bassist, and offered to recommend Scotty but cautioned, Bennys very conservative, dont do any of those fast things you can do. Composer: Mercer / Kosma / Prevert She had lost her husband, then four years later lost her son, and she still had young kids to raise. All is possible, and then all is no more. My mom was still pregnant with my last sister. That is what so many families Sunday ritual were like. April 3, 1936 in Newark, NJ. Nov 13, 2008 #2 Mark Carlsen Oct 4, 2004 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]. [3] He took up double bass at 18 before entering college because learning a string instrument was required of music education majors. In 2007, 46 years later, Roy introduced Helene to the great bassist Christian McBride. In LaFaros short yet meteoric career, he accomplished more than most musicians do over decades. A stacked bass makes for a stacked musical deck. According to Paul Motian, the death of LaFaro left Bill Evans "numb with grief", "in a state of shock", and "like a ghost". 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Performers: Bill Evans, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Paul Motian, d. 7 May 1960. 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 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. We would explore all around our neighborhood on West Street our house was where the elementary school is. He said, Man, youve gotta hear this. As weve already noted regarding the time period right around his tragic death, LaFaro packed a lot of art into his days. 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. 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. I would love to see it. But he was best known for his collaborations and recordings with the Bill Evans Trio. He practiced from sheet music for the higher-pitched clarinet to improve his facility the upper register for bass. HOMETOWN Newark, NJ, United States of America BORN April 3, 1936 Similar Artists Paul Motian. LaFaro-Fernandez: On Sundays our family would go to church, then go to the movies in the afternoon. 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. Death. jazz bass Another link(Born: April 3, 1936 in Newark, NJ, Died: July 6, 1961 in Geneva, NY)During his tragically short life, Scott LaFaro quickly developed into one of the most advanced bassists around, competing with Charlie Haden and Charles Mingus. Genre. LaFaro took the opportunity, and he was the trios helmsman. My day consists of such a singular preoccupationthe physicology of music. Fraternal guidance, in that this endeavor allowed fellow band members to do what they best did. The two albums released by Riverside Records from that fabled performance,Sunday at the Village VanguardandWaltz for Debby, have long stood as his epitaph. All rights reserved. Oscar Peterson Trio . The important thing is his art while he lived. Nearly six decades later, Helene LaFaro-Fernandez continues to keep her older brothers flame alive. Composer: Styne / Sondheim 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. Scott LaFaro was born 64 years ago today. LaFaro was honored in 2012 in Geneva, where a street was renamed Scott LaFaro Drive and an annual Scott LaFaroDay was inaugurated. There is a grave mistake a prospective listener can make with LaFaro, and when I say what that is, I may come off as somewhat risible, but one must do what is right: loving the Village Vanguard recordings so much that you sleep on the rest of what he achieved as a certain kind of jazz genius. 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. 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. He remembered that Scotty was dressed up for the Newport appearance. Your IP: Everyone would say Dont go to the creek! but we did anyway, and would come home with red shoes. Mr. Berg, whose career encompassed free jazz, soul jazz, jazz rock, and straight-ahead playing, was driving east on Route 27 with his wife when One may even ask the question whether it is possible to love jazz and not love Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby, and I dont think youre being a curmudgeon if you stamp a foot and issue an emphatic No, by Jove!. One of the most substantial biographies I've read in recent years is the 2009 publication that Helene LaFaro-Fernandez devoted to her brother Scott. What kind of influence did your father have on your brothers music? We also spent time at the First Presbyterian Church choir. Your family ended up following Scotty out to California. LaFaro began by practicing his fingers off. 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. Scott LaFaro - Death. 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.. 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. 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. Taking a tip from Red Mitchell, he trained himself to pluck the strings of his bass with his index and middle finger independently. Evans was an articulate interweaver of a pianist, a melodic speaker, a filigree lord rather than a rhythm king. Composer: Hammerstein II / Kern It was then he fell in love with the tenor saxophone. His death came just ten days after recording two live albums with the Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz . [My] early years at the university were thoroughly engaging intellectually but were also a time of deep introspection. My mom was still pregnant with my last sister. Friedman relates inJade Visions,He used to play my piano, and was very interested in minor 7thchords with the flat 5th. 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. Scott LaFaro at Newport July 2, 1961 - Killed in a Car Wreck 4 days later. We were like brothers., Six months before the session with Kuhn, LaFaro recorded with trumpeter Booker Little on April 13 and 15. LaFaro is a potent cup of teaa brilliant future is in store for this youthful bassist from Geneva, N.Y., (Film footage ofLaFarois extremely rare. Scotty was on the road at the time, in California. 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. 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. 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. Later in high school, kids would go to the movies with their friends, or boyfriends, or girlfriends. He became a professional musician in New York City during the Roaring 20s. And how does it go? We were the kind that played a fraction, a millimeter behind. 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. Q: So if you were all living in California, how was it that your brother was near Geneva when he died? He was visiting some friends west of Geneva and was driving home late when he crashed. Tales are told of how much John Coltrane practiced, but you could say the same about the bassist from Newark. 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. 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. LaFaro was killed in a car accident ten days after the recording. Geller recalls that at the end of Scottys first night with the clarinetist, the two went around to hear Bill Evans. 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. On date night, people would end up at The Smith. 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. More on his story here. [10] He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. [1] For a time, Haden and LaFaro shared an apartment. 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