Composer: Hawes Evans and Dolphy dont feature on a couple tunes, while LaFaro is the constant. Toggle filters. Nov 13, 2008 #2 Mark Carlsen Oct 4, 2004 52.119.1.55 What happened to your brother after Ithaca College? 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." Composer: Gillespie That is what so many families Sunday ritual were like. I dont blame him, said Morrow. 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. 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. 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. 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. Scott LaFaro - Death. For the 1964 album with Monica Zetterlund, see, The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961, "Bill Evans Trio: Sunday At The Village Vanguard & Waltz For Debby", Plays the Theme from The V.I.P.s and Other Great Songs, Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings, Consecration: The Final Recordings Part 2, On Broadway Vol. The 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 . Let us be grateful that he didnt rest easy during what would prove to be the last Christmas season of his life, for in December 1960, he was called in for a couple of dates that we must look to every bit as much as the June 1961 Village Vanguard recordings to fully appreciate him. LaFaro-Fernandez, Helen; Ralston, Chuck; Campbell, Jeffrey R.; Palombi, Phil (2009). Helene makes no secret of LaFaros exacting standards and competitive personality, and she quotes many who testify to the same. Bill Evans. Scott LaFaro at Newport July 2, 1961 - Killed in a Car Wreck 4 days later. He became a professional musician in New York City during the Roaring 20s. LaFaro left Morrow and settled in Los Angeles in 1957. 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. Performers: Thad Jones, tp; Herb Geller, as; Billy Taylor, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Elvin Jones, d. June 1959. It is well remembered as the final performance by the Evans trio of the time, which included bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian. In 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. And how does it go? Other times, its distilled into a moment that seems to transcend itself, and thus it went for Paul Gonsalves, hero of a Newport afternoon. Also, the exertion of a formidable musical will to take what was there, in an act of guidance. This article is about the 1961 Village Vanguard recordings. Security video shows a crash in the Reseda neighborhood of Los Angeles which left a driver dead. The 25-year old Scott LaFaros death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock to the jazz world. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 08:03. Available Qualities. This is the best piano player Ive ever heard. It was Evanss 1956 debut album,New Jazz Conceptions. ~ Charles A. Ralston, A Site About Dead Musicians and how they got that way. LaFaro and his stellar bandmates pianist Don Friedman and drummer Pete LaRoca run through four jazz standards, including two takes of Sacre Blu. Mom needed the money. Dave Green joins Alyn Shipton to pick the essential recordings of fellow bassist Scott LaFaro's brief but brilliant career, including work with Bill Evans. In the mid 1950s, at the Los Angeles music scene, he became known as one of. By City News Service. 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 replaced Charlie Haden as Ornette Coleman's bassist in January 1961. Mom needed the money. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. He practiced from sheet music for the higher-pitched clarinet to improve his facility the upper register for bass. [1] For a time, Haden and LaFaro shared an apartment. He recorded with pianist Don Friedman as well. In Jade Visionshe says, Scott wasnt what one would consider a big band bass player. 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. 1950s - 1960s. I get 10 to 12 emails a day asking about Scotty. Member Of . But its a moment were meant to be a part of, that both surrounds us and is for us. An investigation is underway after two people were killed in a crash involving a big rig along the . Q: What kind of influence did your father have on your brothers music? LaFaro also played opposite bassist Charlie Haden in alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman's experimental double quartet on Free Jazz. 2023 Madavor Media, LLC. [5] He left that organization to work in Los Angeles. Christian said, Scottys playing was the bible for bass playersJimmy Blanton the old testament, Scotty the new., LaFaro spent the evening of July 5 with old friends in Geneva then drove 80 miles west with Frank Ottley to visit another friend in Warsaw who was house-sitting at a place with a good stereo. Pianist Prez was then a professor at the New England Conservatory; his student, Read More Explaining the Taubman Approach, Everyone knows that Joe Williams sang the hell out of the blues, but do you know what else he sang the hell out of? Well, Michael Cera did play a bassist in Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. 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. 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. Rocco Scott LaFaro, in a career that lasted only six years, developed skills on the upright bass that few have been able to match. Active. 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. There is also a street off of Seneca Street, just across from the Smith Opera House, that has been renamed Scott LaFaro Way. At that years Monterey Jazz Festival, LaFaro performed with both the Coleman Quartet and Gunther Schuller. So if you were all living in California, how was it that your brother was near Geneva when he died? The loss of LaFaro hit Evans hard, and he went into a brief seclusion. When did your brother start getting interested in music? We decided to move the family to California. 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. On Sundays our family would go to church, then go to the movies in the afternoon. He lives in Boston and has contributed toJazzTimessince 2006. On date night, people would end up at The Smith. 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. 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. Man, woman decapitated after car slams into big rig on 5 Freeway in San Fernando Valley. [17], When I was in L.A., Scotty LaFaro and I roomed together. ~ Scott Yanow. LaFaro achieved fame in the Bill Evans Trio, which he joined in 1959 and which featured Paul Motian on drums. It remains what is likely Evans' most well-known song,[citation needed] one that he would play throughout his career. On date night, people would end up at The Smith. [1] He played in groups at the College Spa and Joe's Restaurant[4] on State Street in downtown Ithaca. Performers: Stan Getz, ts; Steve Kuhn, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Roy Haynes d. Newport, 2 July 1961. 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. comments . 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. [3] He took up double bass at 18 before entering college because learning a string instrument was required of music education majors. Bud Powell. Composer: LaFaro 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. Nearly six decades later, Helene LaFaro-Fernandez continues to keep her older brothers flame alive. They worked together with vocalist Dick Haymes, whose road show included dancers and a comic. After that touch of piano, he really started to enjoy music and develop a keen awareness of what it was all about. Tracks such as "Solar" (RealAudio excerpt), from the Village Vanguard sessions, highlight his ability to play high notes with surprising speed. That huge sound and strength of attack is finger-sprung alone. Gleason commented, It is, however, as a vehicle for bassist Scott LaFaro that the LP really impresses. Later in the year, he toured and recorded with the Cal Tjader-Stan Getz Sextet. 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. He heard what I was doing at the piano, and I heard what he was doing. Killed in a car accident aged just 25, Scott LaFaro was widely regarded as the most technically gifted bassist of the 20th Century. He played in a trio or quartet at Belhurst from the time he got back until he died. Before long he mastered the instrument, and he toured with trombonist Buddy Morrow and trumpeter Chet Baker. This Third Stream affair has jazz as a major tributary vein, and it has LaFaro to thank for it. Scott Yanow, All-Music GuideScott LaFaros life and career were cut short in July of 1961. Our Dad was from here. 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. 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. The BMW then struck a fourth car which was traveling south on Corbin Avenue. After three months at Ithaca College, he concentrated on bass. Q: Did you and your brother spend time at the Smith Opera House (which was Schines Geneva Theatre back then)? But we LaFaros have staying quality, and my husband and I just celebrated our 60th year in this house. After that touch of piano, he really started to enjoy music and develop a keen awareness of what it was all about. It was released in 1962. I quit very fast, but he was a natural. Q: When did your brother start getting interested in music? Performers: Ornette Coleman, as; Don Cherry, c; Scott Lafaro, b; Ed Blackwell, d. New York City, 31 Jan 1961. 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. 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. California had affordable education, and we could all go to college. Bill Evans Trio. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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]. Friedman relates inJade Visions,He used to play my piano, and was very interested in minor 7thchords with the flat 5th. 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. Stan was playing a melody, and Scott began doubling it. He was excited. Composer: Styne / Sondheim 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. The car, tree and garage all caught fire. Kuhn remembers hearing that it was a St. Christopher medal that LaFaro always wore that helped to identify his badly burned body. Q: Your family ended up following Scotty out to California. Victor Feldman. I was 19 and working. HOMETOWN Newark, NJ, United States of America BORN April 3, 1936 Similar Artists Paul Motian. Evans also went on hiatus after LaFaro's death for a period of several months. [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". 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. He waited until we got interested, and then he was totally supportive. 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. They spent so much time discussing music, listening to records, at the piano, they were inseparable. 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. Later we moved to Elmwood Place, and during the summer we would spend many of our days at the Brook Street Playground. He was his own thing. 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 visiting some friends west of Geneva and was driving home late when he crashed. ", 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. Scotty and I were born in New Jersey but we moved back to Geneva in 1942. Published since 1970, JazzTimesAmericas Jazz Magazineprovides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the jazz scene. 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. Born 1936 in Newark, N.J., La Faro studied clarinet and tenor sax as a boy, but in college switched to bass. 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 . 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. LaFaro-Fernandez: My father passed away (from a heart attack) in 1957. The texture, however, is the back of the handthats the form of caress, rather than the rough-skinned palm. Search for: Search. Read about our approach to external linking. My father passed away (from a heart attack) in 1957. Also included is "Porgy", originally omitted for lack of space.[]" The entire day's recordings were released in 2005 as The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961. One of the most substantial biographies Ive read in recent years is the 2009 publication that Helene LaFaro-Fernandez devoted to her brother Scott. Evans stopped performing for several months. Places to dine, drink, stay near the Smith Opera House, A word of caution about buying tickets on the secondary ticket market. 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. During World War II the club scene changed and he came back to Geneva where he could find work. 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. Helene says that she and Scotty were taken to hear Tony Bennett, the Mills Brothers, Dizzy Gillespie and numerous others. LaFaro-Fernandez: Dad (Joe LaFaro) never forced us to play music. 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. My mom was still pregnant with my last sister. 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. The Scott La Faro book was wonderful. 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. She had lost her husband, then four years later lost her son, and she still had young kids to raise. 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