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. Dont get fancy, no double beatsPlay whats written.LaFaro flew east, passed the audition, and signed on for a six-week tour of one-nighters with Goodman. The group attended the funeral in Geneva, which Kuhn adds was closed casket., LaFaro's death was devastating to Bill Evans. 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. Often controversial, always entertaining, JazzTimes is a favorite of musicians and fans alike. Bill had first heard Scotty with Chet Baker three years earlierNot long after we were back off the Goodman tour, there was a call waiting for Scottythat Bill wanted him to work with him., The first meeting of what became known as the trio took place at a Tony Scott recording date on October 28 and 29, 1959. It was there his career exploded. . Fraternal guidance, in that this endeavor allowed fellow band members to do what they best did. 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. Active. I still have people from all over the world knocking at my doorstep, wanting to see where Scotty played. The BMW then struck a fourth car which was traveling south on Corbin Avenue. Member Of . 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. The Jazz la Mode Blog has plenty to stimulate your interest and curiosity in American music. Tom was honored by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting in 2019. Scott LaFaro - Artist Details. Sound-carver. LaFaro-Fernandez: When Scotty was in sixth grade we took our first piano lessons. 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 would be playing in the hotel room and hit a quadruple stop that was a harmonious sound, and then set the bass on its side and it seemed the sound just rang and rang for so long. He became a professional musician in New York City during the Roaring 20s. Well, Michael Cera did play a bassist in Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. 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. 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. 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. 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. This article is about the 1961 Village Vanguard recordings. 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. So help yourself to his more, if you will. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. LaFaro died in an automobile accident in the summer of 1961 in Flint, New York on U.S. 20 between Geneva and Canandaigua, two days after accompanying Stan Getz at the Newport Jazz Festival. 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. 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. This Third Stream affair has jazz as a major tributary vein, and it has LaFaro to thank for it. 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. Composer: Mercer / Kosma / Prevert 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. ai! Already a member? At age 12 he was recommended for the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, where he was classically trained in violin. 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. 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. 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Scott died instantly and the world lost a talented andinnovative musical voice. 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. That is what so many families Sunday ritual were like. 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. A stacked bass makes for a stacked musical deck. Bud Powell. But he was best known for his collaborations and recordings with the Bill Evans Trio. 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. Im in the position of having nothing you can put your finger on for sale., Evanss drug addiction was also a matter of concern for LaFaro. He wanted the conversation back and forth between each of the players, and he wanted to play melody. Toggle filters. Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings. Tom holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he majored in English and African American Studies. He got his first professional experience playing bass at Belhurst (with my fathers group). 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. This was Scottys home, and he would practice bass facing the corner in the living room because he could better hear the sound quality. 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. 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. 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. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNqSL3xGW70, The Evans Trios appearance at the Village Vanguard opposite Lambert, Hendricks & Ross in June 1961 culminated with the legendary recordings made on the last day of the two-week engagement, Sunday, June 25. This album is widely considered to be one of the best in the Evans canon, and the type of emotive interplay between the musicians that at some points seemed almost deconstructed has served as a model for piano trio play. Q: What kind of influence did your father have on your brothers music? LaFaro started his professional career playing a German-made Mittenwald double bass but it was stolen in the Spring of 1958. Today would be the 78th birthday of the great Scott LaFaro, who died in a car accident in 1961. LaFaro began by practicing his fingers off. 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. 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. 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. Rocco Scott LaFaro, in a career that lasted only six years, developed skills on the upright bass that few have been able to match. Free Jazz did that kind of splicing and segmenting for you, as part of, neatly enough, its original integrated sonic package. This brings about the situation of whether I should spend these hours and months developing what I seem to be able to foresee, or should I dump it and get another job as an entertainer again. Scotty also befriended the pianist-composer Victor Feldman, and recorded with him and drummer Stan Levey in January 1958. 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. My dad took Scotty to see anyone who came there, or to Syracuse or Rochester. Scott LaFaro was born 64 years ago today. He remembered that Scotty was dressed up for the Newport appearance. 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. Published since 1970, JazzTimesAmericas Jazz Magazineprovides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the jazz scene. It was an idyllic childhood. California had affordable education, and we could all go to college. Evans and Dolphy dont feature on a couple tunes, while LaFaro is the constant. [10] We would explore all around our neighborhood on West Street our house was where the elementary school is. 52.119.1.55 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. Become a member and get exclusive access to articles, live sessions and more! 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 is still so wild to me that he was so influential. For many, that Evans association, with drummer Paul Motian, is the LaFaro legacy. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. Evans was an articulate interweaver of a pianist, a melodic speaker, a filigree lord rather than a rhythm king. LaFaro also played opposite bassist Charlie Haden in alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman's experimental double quartet on Free Jazz. Scott was extremely picky and choosy, and he wanted to call the trio. [14] On April 4, 2014 a ceremony to rename a downtown street Scott LaFaro Drive took place. Also, Club 86 was bringing in major stars as well. 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. Is that a bass thing? It was then he fell in love with the tenor saxophone. Our Dad was from here. 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. During World War II the club scene changed and he came back to Geneva where he could find work. Thats his brand of intimacy: the sensation of the stolen moment. Did you and your brother spend time at the Smith Opera House (which was Schines Geneva Theatre back then)? And there truly couldn't be a better way to . It was then he fell in love with the tenor saxophone. Tracks such as "Solar" (RealAudio excerpt), from the Village Vanguard sessions, highlight his ability to play high notes with surprising speed. 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. Stan was playing a melody, and Scott began doubling it. Not long after he arrived on campus, he gave his clarinet away to a classmate. Brother man, I can all but hear Ornette saying, we are going to blow some minds tomorrow.. LaFaro died in an automobile accident in the summer of 1961 in Flint, New York on U.S. 20 between Geneva and Canandaigua, two days after accompanying Stan Getz at the Newport Jazz Festival. 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." Youre freeboomto lock in on LaFaro, and I do that quite a bit. 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. 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. [1] He played in groups at the College Spa and Joe's Restaurant[4] on State Street in downtown Ithaca. Evans, LaFaro, and Motian were committed to the idea of three equal voices in the trio, working together for a singular musical idea and often without any musician explicitly keeping time. 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. MTV, EMA and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc. 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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. It is LaFaros bass that makes this thing go, such as it does go. Composer: Hawes Q: What were Scotts childhood and teen years like here in Geneva? 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. Here is a verbal snapshot of that conversation, edited for clarity. Bill Evans Trio. All is possible, and then all is no more. For much of 1958, LaFaro was with pianist/vibraphonist Victor Feldman's band. 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? 1998 Kevin Crosby. In addition to hosting Jazz la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. It was there his career exploded. Tracks. 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. Taking a tip from Red Mitchell, he trained himself to pluck the strings of his bass with his index and middle finger independently. He took up bass because he was required to play a stringed instrument at Ithaca College. Bassist Scott LaFaro of Geneva had already achieved acclaim when he died in a car accident at the age of 25. Man, woman decapitated after car slams into big rig on 5 Freeway in San Fernando Valley. Scott LaFaro was an American jazz musician whose technique on the double bass left an indelible impression on future artists even though he died in a car accident in 1961 when he was just 25 years.. 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. The important thing is his art while he lived. Then wed go home and have dinner and ice cream. 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. 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 . Shortly after, their collaboration began. 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.. [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. 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. Scotty sort of led the way on the bass becoming a solo instrument in its own right. He used a Zen epigram in the closing of his letter to Gloria: Im trying to remember a bit of Zen I like so well: If you seek the fruits ofgood actionso shall they escape you. I try to smile everyday with that., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uugimR8honE, When I asked Kuhn if Scotty had similar anxieties about touring with Getz, he said no, but he recalled a bandstand incident between the bassist and the tenor player whom Kuhn called extraordinarily paranoid. One night at the Blackhawk in San Francisco, he said, they clashed. Friedman relates inJade Visions,He used to play my piano, and was very interested in minor 7thchords with the flat 5th. Little was as star-crossed as LaFaro, and hes usually talked about in conjunction with altoist Eric Dolphy as often as LaFaro is with Evans. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 08:03. Beginning in 1955, he was a member of the Buddy Morrow big band. Jan. 30, 2021 1:47 PM PT. Performance & security by Cloudflare. Later we moved to Elmwood Place, and during the summer we would spend many of our days at the Brook Street Playground. The loss of LaFaro hit Evans hard, and he went into a brief seclusion. They worked together with vocalist Dick Haymes, whose road show included dancers and a comic. Scottys death was hard on my Mom. Everything. [7], In June 1961, the Bill Evans trio began two weeks of performances at the Village Vanguard in New York City. While driving home late one nighthis car went off the road and struck a tree. Composer: Gillespie ~ Scott Yanow. We spoke with LaFaro-Fernandez by phone to give us a glimpse on her brothers formative years in Geneva. I adored him, and I was thrilled to be able to work with him. The Sampson Air Force Base was so big that it brought in big names like Duke Ellington. That left air and spaceand timewhich could do with some filling, some shaping. 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! Performers: Ornette Coleman, as; Don Cherry, c; Scott Lafaro, b; Ed Blackwell, d. New York City, 31 Jan 1961. 2023 Madavor Media, LLC. . LaFaro's freewheeling, harmonically advanced bass style with the Bill Evans Trio (1959-1961) opened a door to a wholly new approach to the instrument that influenced a generation of players who followed in his wakeEddie Gomez, Dave Holland, and Marc Johnson, to name just a few. Oscar Peterson Trio . 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. [3] He took up double bass at 18 before entering college because learning a string instrument was required of music education majors. We never got to enjoy it as a concert venue in our day, unfortunately. Shortly after, he acquired a bass made in 1825 in Concord, New Hampshire by Abraham Prescott. 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. I get 10 to 12 emails a day asking about Scotty. LaFaro spent most of his days practicing his instrument. Later in high school, kids would go to the movies with their friends, or boyfriends, or girlfriends. ~ Charles A. Ralston, A Site About Dead Musicians and how they got that way. Hes just so damn elegant. 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. 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. The young bassist was friends to other artists and art during his all-too brief sojourn upon the mortal coil. LaFaro achieved fame in the Bill Evans Trio, which he joined in 1959 and which featured Paul Motian on drums. I was 19 and working. 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 He says they formed an immediate friendship, and that musically, Id never felt such an instant connection. 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. Stan Levey. 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