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. 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. The 25-year-old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock to the jazz world." Scott Yanow. Performance & security by Cloudflare. I would love to see it. Tonight Show, 14 Feb 1957. LaFaro died in an automobile accident on July 6, 1961 in Flint, New York on U.S. Route 20 between Geneva and Canandaigua, four days after accompanying Stan Getz . On date night, people would end up at The Smith. LaFaro-Fernandez: When Scotty was in sixth grade we took our first piano lessons. Scotty was on the road at the time, in California. That left air and spaceand timewhich could do with some filling, some shaping. 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. We never got to enjoy it as a concert venue in our day, unfortunately. 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. In Meet Me at Jim & Andy's: Jazz Musicians and Their World, Gene Lees wrote, "The shock of LaFaro's death stayed with Bill for years, and he felt vaguely guilty about itHe felt that because of his heroin habit he had made insufficient use of [their] time togetherAfter LaFaro's death, Bill was like a mane with a lost love, always looking to find its replacement. Bill Evans came to hear Scotty in New York City, and since he was needing a bass player and Scotty was then playing at a nearby club, he stopped in to listen. Available Qualities. Styles. The rest is told in his gripping visuals, The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist. Fraternal guidance, in that this endeavor allowed fellow band members to do what they best did. Toggle filters. 1950s - 1960s. Security video shows a crash in the Reseda neighborhood of Los Angeles which left a driver dead. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. He got his first professional experience playing bass at Belhurst (with my fathers group). 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. 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]. Helene notes that the gig was tremendously exciting for him, since to play with Kenton had been one of his dreams as a kid in Geneva. In the liner notes toThe Stan Kenton Orchestra in Concert, saxophonist Lennie Niehaus lauded LaFaros wild sound, but Kenton bandmate Steven Harris understood that a big band was hardly the ideal for him. But he was best known for his collaborations and recordings with the Bill Evans Trio. It was written with so much love and insight. LaFaro went on to perform with Victor Feldman, Chet Baker, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, Stan Getz and Ornette Coleman. Smith Opera House is owned and operated by the Smith Center for the Arts, a private not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. Pianist Pat Moran, who led a trio that Scott toured and recorded with in 1958, says he was was very aware of his genius and used to love to go into clubs and intimidate bass playersHe was quite a character, lots of fun. Moran is little known today as Patti Moran McCoy, butin 1960 LaFaro was quoted ina profile written by Martin Williams forJazz Review, I dont even like any of my records except maybe the first one I did with Pat Moran., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HAbUcKTdcI. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. 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. [5] He left that organization to work in Los Angeles. He wanted the conversation back and forth between each of the players, and he wanted to play melody. "[12], In 1988, Insights label of RVC Corporation in Japan released Memories for Scotty. For much of 1958, LaFaro was with pianist/vibraphonist Victor Feldman's band. 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. Scottys death was hard on my Mom. Scotty also befriended the pianist-composer Victor Feldman, and recorded with him and drummer Stan Levey in January 1958. When Scotty was killed at age 25 (I was 24), I was devastated I couldn't play for months. A Dead Musician Directory Celebrity Page. 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. Thats his brand of intimacy: the sensation of the stolen moment. Active. The group attended the funeral in Geneva, which Kuhn adds was closed casket., LaFaro's death was devastating to Bill Evans. 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. 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. 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. So if you were all living in California, how was it that your brother was near Geneva when he died? So help yourself to his more, if you will. Scotty had the concept for a trio to be conversational instead of the classic structure, instead of bass and drummer just keeping time. A professor encouraged him to audition for an open spot in the Buddy Morrow Orchestra. Not long after he arrived on campus, he gave his clarinet away to a classmate. The 25-year-old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock . Motian operated the same way; if anything, he was even more of a painter than the leader. 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? The BMW then struck a fourth car which was traveling south on Corbin Avenue. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Stan was playing a melody, and Scott began doubling it. 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. At age 12 he was recommended for the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, where he was classically trained in violin. He waited until we got interested, and then he was totally supportive. LaFaro continued to divide his time between Getz, Ornette, and Evans in 1961. He was excited. 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]. Nearly six decades later, Helene LaFaro-Fernandez continues to keep her older brothers flame alive. In the mid 1950s, at the Los Angeles music scene, he became known as one of. What were Scotts childhood and teen years like here in Geneva? LaFaro-Fernandez: Scotty and I were born in New Jersey but we moved back to Geneva in 1942. It was then he fell in love with the tenor saxophone. We also spent time at the First Presbyterian Church choir. LaFaro achieved fame in the Bill Evans Trio, which he joined in 1959 and which featured Paul Motian on drums. More on his story here. What happened to your brother after Ithaca College? All that listening to the trio had another effect on me. Evans and Dolphy dont feature on a couple tunes, while LaFaro is the constant. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. 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. The music of Jazz Abstractions proceeds as a series of shadings, which tend to be called variants on the finished LP. In May 1960, the Bill Evans Trio joined in a program at Circle in the Square that was devoted to Gunther Schullers jazz compositions. In addition to hosting Jazz la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. [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. Tom holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he majored in English and African American Studies. 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. He said, Man, youve gotta hear this. 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. Scott LaFaro. 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. Member Of . John Tynan wrote inDownbeatthat the rhythm duo [LaFaro and Billy Higgins] were the baddest cats on the date. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 08:03. It originally appeared as a solo piano piece on Evans' debut album, New Jazz Conceptions. 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. Is that a jazz thing? Mangione remembersLaFaro calling Baker an American tragedy, and says, Over the years, [Scotts] using the term an American tragedy still strikes me as incredibly ironic and portentous [given what happened] that night., At about 1:45 on the morning of July 6, LaFaro apparently fell asleep at the wheel and veered off Route 5-20, hitting a tree and killing himself and Ottley instantly. Genres. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has We calculated our top 40 new releases of 2022 We calculated our top 10 historical/reissue You never quite knew what Chicago bassist Kelly Sill was going to play (or what he was going to say). In a December 29, 1960 letter addressed to his lover Gloria Gabriel, the dancer to whom he dedicated Glorias Step, he wrote, One important thing is that I realize day by day the true artist and musician is becoming more and more meaningless in terms of public comprehension. Search Music. 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. Postings here are the last known photographs or videos of a person. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. We were the kind that played a fraction, a millimeter behind. It was an idyllic childhood. 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. Everyone heard him. They spent so much time discussing music, listening to records, at the piano, they were inseparable. Performers: Ornette Coleman, as; Don Cherry, c; Scott Lafaro, b; Ed Blackwell, d. New York City, 31 Jan 1961. 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. Composer: Styne / Sondheim My dad loved the director, so we had to go and have that experience as well. With my mom and Scotty and my two sisters and then our own kids, we eventually had to build onto the house. I was also told by classical bass players that this also changed things for them because as was with all music pretty much up until then, the bass was considered more of a rhythm instrument only. The texture, however, is the back of the handthats the form of caress, rather than the rough-skinned palm. ", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIzbINNrqcQ. 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. The Jazz la Mode Blog has plenty to stimulate your interest and curiosity in American music. Nearly six decades later, Helene LaFaro-Fernandez continues to keep her older brothers flame alive. 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. 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. Though hed previously appeared onGolden Trombonewith Buddy Morrow,The Arrival of Victor Feldmanwas essentially the first LP that showcased his singular gifts. we do worse! Death. His death came just ten days after recording two live albums with the Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby, albums considered among the finest live jazz recordings. There is a creek that ran through the park, it would go up past Shuron Optical where they used this rouge chemical to make glass lenses, so the creek was always red. Providing entertainment, education, and the energizing force that pulls us all together in celebration of great work. He lives in Boston and has contributed toJazzTimessince 2006. Did you and your brother spend time at the Smith Opera House (which was Schines Geneva Theatre back then)? 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. And how does it go? 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. . I dont blame him, said Morrow. Composer: Coleman According to Paul Motian, the death of LaFaro left Bill Evans "numb with grief", "in a state of shock", and "like a ghost". LaFaro began by practicing his fingers off. Upon returning to L.A., LaFaro phoned his friend Herb Geller, who was then playing alto with Benny Goodman in New York. By City News Service. Its the top of the sheet, instead of the coarseness of the winter blanket. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he was an influential jazz bassist best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio. [My] early years at the university were thoroughly engaging intellectually but were also a time of deep introspection. 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. [1] With Evans and drummer Paul Motian he developed the counter-melodic style that would come to characterize his playing. When Evans returned to the trio format later in 1962, it was with Motian and bassist Chuck Israels.[2]. Q: What kind of influence did your father have on your brothers music? The car, tree and garage all caught fire. How did that happen? Geller recalls that at the end of Scottys first night with the clarinetist, the two went around to hear Bill Evans. Oscar Peterson Trio . This is the best piano player Ive ever heard. It was Evanss 1956 debut album,New Jazz Conceptions. My day consists of such a singular preoccupationthe physicology of music. Showing all 2 results. 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. Jim Hall. Nov 13, 2008 #2 Mark Carlsen Oct 4, 2004 1926). 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. Bud Powell. LaFaro was honored in 2012 in Geneva, where a street was renamed Scott LaFaro Drive and an annual Scott LaFaroDay was inaugurated. See all our current specials here. Also included is "Porgy", originally omitted for lack of space.[]" Sign in to continue reading, Sixty years after the bass greats untimely death, a look at his musical legacy beyond the Bill Evans Trio. 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. Scotty sort of led the way on the bass becoming a solo instrument in its own right. 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. Helene says that she and Scotty were taken to hear Tony Bennett, the Mills Brothers, Dizzy Gillespie and numerous others. We spoke with LaFaro-Fernandez by phone to give us a glimpse on her brothers formative years in Geneva. Shortly after, their collaboration began. Scotty grew up in Geneva, where his father Joe, whod played with the Paul Whiteman and Dorsey Brothers orchestras, earned a living as a violinist and shared his fondness for both classical music and big band jazz with his children. Evanss illness resulted in the cancellation of a long engagement opposite Thelonious Monk at the Jazz Gallery. Such is the legacy of bassist Scott LaFaro, though I would suggest that what was was more than we often think. He was playing mandolin and violin publicly by age 7. Friedman relates inJade Visions,He used to play my piano, and was very interested in minor 7thchords with the flat 5th. We decided to move the family to California. 4 or The Paradox of Continuity, The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waltz_for_Debby_(1962_album)&oldid=1139601889, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2021, Articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Note on the alternate takes: "For this CD release, alternate versions of three of the six selections have been inserted just after the ones originally chosen for issuance.[] In 2009 she published a biography about him, Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro. Your IP: He was his own thing. Composers. On Sundays our family would go to church, then go to the movies in the afternoon. California had affordable education, and we could all go to college. 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