http://www.metafilter.com/tags/LaFaro Posts tagged with 'LaFaro' at MetaFilter. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:03:15 -0800 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:03:15 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73314/Jazz%2Dbassist%2Dwho%2Dblew%2Dthem%2Dall%2Daway In July of 1961, the <a href="http://www.geocities.com/chuck_ralston/08_slf.htm"><strong>bass genius Scott LaFaro</strong></a>, perished in a fiery car crash after visiting family and friends in upstate NY, just ten days after doing the last gigs he would ever do with the great Bill Evans's trio (which became the <strong><a href="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=19577">legendary live recordings from the Vanguard</a></strong>) . He was only 24 years old. But he was also developing as a fine writer as well, as <strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rMxAQaQpIc">this Evans trio track</a></strong> - a mystical ballad in 9/4, shows. LaFaro, one jazz' greatest innovators, blazed a trail in only six short years with <a href="http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6659250/a/Ornette!.htm">Ornette Coleman</a>, Stan Getz, <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000YX3/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Hampton Hawes</a></strong>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000605A/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/"><strong>Victor Feldman </strong></a>(once Miles Davis' pianist, and a Steely Dan studio regular), Freddie Hubbard and <a href="http://www.jazzdisco.org/lafaro/"><strong>many others</strong></a>. But he is still best known for his revolutionary contributions to that classic Evans trio. <strong><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/48492/an-afternoon-after-which-nothing-was-ever-the-same">(previously)</a></strong>. After this rendering of "Jade Visions", Evans never played it again anywhere. (Though he did do LaFaro's <strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C84KmJwtPeI">"Gloria's Step" </a></strong>frequently in the 70s.) tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73314 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:03:15 -0800 Bill Evans jazz LaFaro Scott Vanguard Village Seekerofsplendor