Later we moved to Elmwood Place, and during the summer we would spend many of our days at the Brook Street Playground. [5] He left that organization to work in Los Angeles. This was Scottys home, and he would practice bass facing the corner in the living room because he could better hear the sound quality. By City News Service. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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. Tom Reneys writings delve into the history and mystery of jazz, blues, and beyond. 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 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. Q: Your family ended up following Scotty out to California. A jazz musicians legacy can be a multifarious slope. He stuck with his new hire, offered Scotty the option of plane fare to New York or L.A., and showed him the door. The Jazz la Mode Blog has plenty to stimulate your interest and curiosity in American music. Three of the tunes from their setBaubles, Bangles and Beads; Where Do You Go; and Airegin were released on CD in 1994. The entire day's recordings were released in 2005 as The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961. Everyone would say Dont go to the creek! but we did anyway, and would come home with red shoes. After that touch of piano, he really started to enjoy music and develop a keen awareness of what it was all about. Scottys death was hard on my Mom. 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 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. Beginning in 1955, he was a member of the Buddy Morrow big band. Later in high school, kids would go to the movies with their friends, or boyfriends, or girlfriends. One of the most substantial biographies Ive read in recent years is the 2009 publication that Helene LaFaro-Fernandez devoted to her brother Scott. [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 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 at the Newport Jazz Festival. Composer: Mercer / Kosma / Prevert Also included is "Porgy", originally omitted for lack of space.[]" LaFaro left Morrow and settled in Los Angeles in 1957. Steve Kuhn, who felt a brotherly kinship with Scotty and says his sudden death was the first major loss of my life, describes him as very strong-willed. (He also says that LaFaro, who was a fan of Formula One and sports car racing, drove a little too friskily for my taste.) A case in point was LaFaros departure from Kenton, which was precipitated by his displeasure with the bands new drummer, a situation that would repeat itself in 61 when he insisted that Stan Getz replace drummer Pete LaRoca. 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. He wanted the conversation back and forth between each of the players, and he wanted to play melody. 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. I quit very fast, but he was a natural. Lafaro's innovative bass playing, which combined virtuoso technique with a counter-melodic conception, was captured in all its glory at the Vanguard on June 25, 1961. My mom was still pregnant with my last sister. He got his first professional experience playing bass at Belhurst (with my fathers group). Before long he mastered the instrument, and he toured with trombonist Buddy Morrow and trumpeter Chet Baker. Q: So if you were all living in California, how was it that your brother was near Geneva when he died? Places to dine, drink, stay near the Smith Opera House, A word of caution about buying tickets on the secondary ticket market. For many, that Evans association, with drummer Paul Motian, is the LaFaro legacy. He replaced Charlie Haden as Ornette Coleman's bassist in January 1961. 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. 2023 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. LaFaro-Fernandez: When Scotty was in sixth grade we took our first piano lessons. 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 . 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. Scotty sat in. 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. It is LaFaros bass that makes this thing go, such as it does go. It is still so wild to me that he was so influential. 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. He waited until we got interested, and then he was totally supportive. Smith Opera House is owned and operated by the Smith Center for the Arts, a private not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. Born 1936 in Newark, N.J., La Faro studied clarinet and tenor sax as a boy, but in college switched to bass. Jim Hall. Toggle filters. Rocco Scott LaFaro, in a career that lasted only six years, developed skills on the upright bass that few have been able to match. 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. 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. That is what so many families Sunday ritual were like. [14] On April 4, 2014 a ceremony to rename a downtown street Scott LaFaro Drive took place. Genres. Scott LaFaro - Artist Details. Composer: LaFaro Following the Vanguard engagement, LaFaro played with Getz, Steve Kuhn, and Roy Haynes at Newport on July 2. In addition to hosting Jazz la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. As was, really, LaFaro. Become a member and get exclusive access to articles, live sessions and more! Find him on the web at colinfleminglit.com (where he maintains the unique online journal, the Many Moments Moreblog) and on Twitter @colinfleminglit. Nearly six decades later, Helene LaFaro-Fernandez continues to keep her older brothers flame alive. Mom needed the money. Free Jazz did that kind of splicing and segmenting for you, as part of, neatly enough, its original integrated sonic package. We would explore all around our neighborhood on West Street our house was where the elementary school is. LaFaro-Fernandez: My father passed away (from a heart attack) in 1957. We never got to enjoy it as a concert venue in our day, unfortunately. I dont blame him, said Morrow. He would practice for hours: he had all these Sonny Rollins solos he had written out in bass clef! Such is the legacy of bassist Scott LaFaro, though I would suggest that what was was more than we often think. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a154b16ff047cd4 He worked from sheet music for the clarinet, with its much higher pitch, to improve his command of the bass upper register. By. 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. A driver was killed when a car crashed into a home in the Hancock Park . After three months at Ithaca College, he concentrated on bass. During World War II the club scene changed and he came back to Geneva where he could find work. Hes just so damn elegant. Its the top of the sheet, instead of the coarseness of the winter blanket. Performers: Hampton Hawes, p; Harold Land, ts; Scott Lafaro, b; Frank Butler, d. 14 Mar 1958. Former Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Erickson has been charged in connection with a hit-and-run crash in Westlake Village that killed two . 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." He remembered that Scotty was dressed up for the Newport appearance. 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. Born . 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. See all our current specials here. The 25-year-old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock . 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. I was 19 and working. Friedman first heard LaFaro with Buddy Morrow, and then they worked together with Chet Baker. 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. The music of Jazz Abstractions proceeds as a series of shadings, which tend to be called variants on the finished LP. Scott LaFaro was born 64 years ago . 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. 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. 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. Around this time he received a greeting card from Miles Davis suggesting that Davis wanted to hire him. Evanss illness resulted in the cancellation of a long engagement opposite Thelonious Monk at the Jazz Gallery. [1] He played in groups at the College Spa and Joe's Restaurant[4] on State Street in downtown Ithaca. LaFaro went on to perform with Victor Feldman, Chet Baker, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, Stan Getz and Ornette Coleman. As weve already noted regarding the time period right around his tragic death, LaFaro packed a lot of art into his days. 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. All is possible, and then all is no more. We were the kind that played a fraction, a millimeter behind. Evans stopped performing for several months. Tonight Show, 14 Feb 1957. My day consists of such a singular preoccupationthe physicology of music. 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. Not long after he arrived on campus, he gave his clarinet away to a classmate. 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.. "Route 66" songwriter Bobby Troup was the show's host. 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. The young bassist was friends to other artists and art during his all-too brief sojourn upon the mortal coil. 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 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. 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.. 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. I get 10 to 12 emails a day asking about Scotty. ai! His records with Bill Evans are among the finest jazz trio discs . 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. In 2009 she published a biography about him, Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro. So even a low speed accident which would be survivable in today's cars, would be a mess in an older car. In spring 1960, he featured on a half-dozen tracks that trumpeter Booker Little cut for his second session as leader. LaFaro and his stellar bandmates pianist Don Friedman and drummer Pete LaRoca run through four jazz standards, including two takes of Sacre Blu. But its a moment were meant to be a part of, that both surrounds us and is for us. 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. There was great rapport. 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. 52.119.1.55 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. Jazz. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. 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. But you always knew that Read More Kelly Sill, Several years ago, one of Danilo Prezs students was suffering from tendinitis. My mom was still pregnant with my last sister. Victor Feldman. Kuhn remembers hearing that it was a St. Christopher medal that LaFaro always wore that helped to identify his badly burned body. This is the best piano player Ive ever heard. It was Evanss 1956 debut album,New Jazz Conceptions. A master of the upright bass, he recorded with Bill Evans and Ornette Coleman before he died in a car crash at age 25. 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. And there truly couldn't be a better way to . He told Helene that Scott lived for the bassHe was looking all the time to play. And how does it go? In 2009 she published a biography about him, Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro. Bill Evans Trio. We never got to enjoy it as a concert venue in our day, unfortunately. Such is the legacy of bassist Scott LaFaro, though I would suggest that what was was more than we often think. LaFaro completed his first year at Ithaca, but not his second. The 25-year old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock to the jazz world. (, This page was last edited on 15 February 2023, at 23:36. Your IP: A copy of the latest annual report may be obtained from the Smith Center or from the Office of the Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271. 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. On Sundays our family would go to church, then go to the movies in the afternoon. Brother man, I can all but hear Ornette saying, we are going to blow some minds tomorrow.. 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. Then wed go home and have dinner and ice cream. 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. Published since 1970, JazzTimesAmericas Jazz Magazineprovides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the jazz scene. I quit very fast, but he was a natural. 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. 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. Jan. 30, 2021 1:47 PM PT. Composer: Hawes 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.. Expansive range was a totem of the LaFaro sound, the idea that the bass was so much a bass that it was also not a bass and more than a bass. It was then he fell in love with the tenor saxophone. 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. 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. The loss of LaFaro hit Evans hard, and he went into a brief seclusion. Performance & security by Cloudflare. 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. Mom needed the money. 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. 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. How did that happen? [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". 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 LaFaro took the opportunity, and he was the trios helmsman. Labels. We had to have a strong rhythm section and he was definitely of that caliberHe was a dedicated personintolerant of anyone who wasnt giving his best., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngs04EXtDwk. His sense of time was freer, less tied to the ground beat, than any jazz bassist had previously acheivedIt is not going too far to see this short-lived trio as redefining the nature of the jazz rhythm section. 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. You may additional context in comments. 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. In 2007, 46 years later, Roy introduced Helene to the great bassist Christian McBride. We are in a fix! Ted Gioia, in his 1997 survey,The History of Jazz, said, "LaFarotook far greater chances, departing markedly from the traditional walking line, instead offering countermelodies and guitar-like phrases. All that listening to the trio had another effect on me. 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. Scotty also befriended the pianist-composer Victor Feldman, and recorded with him and drummer Stan Levey in January 1958. Tom was honored by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting in 2019. 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. Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings. He was visiting some friends west of Geneva and was driving home late when he crashed. Scotty had the concept for a trio to be conversational instead of the classic structure, instead of bass and drummer just keeping time. 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. Death. DSD 128 fs (2) DSD 64 fs (2) . 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. My dad loved the director, so we had to go and have that experience as well. A stacked bass makes for a stacked musical deck. LaFaro continued to play this bass until his death. Q: Did you and your brother spend time at the Smith Opera House (which was Schines Geneva Theatre back then)? I suppose technically, yes, though its also far more, and thats a LaFaro thing. Sometimes its defined by contrasting stylistic paths that amalgamate into a career, as with Miles Davis. The important thing is his art while he lived. Scotty was on the road at the time, in California. More on his story here. 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