The 25-year old Scott LaFaros death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock to the jazz world. Performers: Victor Feldman, p, vib; Scott LaFaro, b; Stan Levey, d. 22 Jan 1958. 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. 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. Rocco Scott LaFaro (April 3, 1936 July 6, 1961)[1] was an American jazz double bassist known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio. We were the kind that played a fraction, a millimeter behind. Motian operated the same way; if anything, he was even more of a painter than the leader. He was a musician from age 4. 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. LaFaro went on to perform with Victor Feldman, Chet Baker, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, Stan Getz and Ornette Coleman. 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. 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. My dad loved the director, so we had to go and have that experience as well. Does anyone have pictures of this bass, or have you seen it in person? 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. His death came just ten days after recording two live albums with the Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz . Q: So if you were all living in California, how was it that your brother was near Geneva when he died? An investigation is underway after two people were killed in a crash involving a big rig along the . 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. She proposed the demo as something to shop around to record labels; alas, nothing came of it. 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. Tom was honored by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting in 2019. Helene makes no secret of LaFaros exacting standards and competitive personality, and she quotes many who testify to the same. Brockton-born alto player and clarinetist Dick Johnson was also on the band. My mom was still pregnant with my last sister. He stuck with his new hire, offered Scotty the option of plane fare to New York or L.A., and showed him the door. [1] With Evans and drummer Paul Motian he developed the counter-melodic style that would come to characterize his playing. LaFaro-Fernandez: Scotty and I were born in New Jersey but we moved back to Geneva in 1942. 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. In the mid 1950s, at the Los Angeles music scene, he became known as one of. The group attended the funeral in Geneva, which Kuhn adds was closed casket., LaFaro's death was devastating to Bill Evans. Stan was playing a melody, and Scott began doubling it. Later in high school, kids would go to the movies with their friends, or boyfriends, or girlfriends. I quit very fast, but he was a natural. Sound-carver. 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. 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. Toggle filters. He played in a trio or quartet at Belhurst from the time he got back until he died. 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. ~ Charles A. Ralston, A Site About Dead Musicians and how they got that way. I still have people from all over the world knocking at my doorstep, wanting to see where Scotty played. Composer: Gillespie 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. 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. 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. It was released in 1962. We think of LaFaro as a jazz bassist with leanings toward classical music; its the lan, I think. Composer: LaFaro 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. Did you and your brother spend time at the Smith Opera House (which was Schines Geneva Theatre back then)? My father passed away (from a heart attack) in 1957. Performance & security by Cloudflare. Is that a jazz thing? Security video shows a crash in the Reseda neighborhood of Los Angeles which left a driver dead. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. 2023 Smith Center for the Arts, All rights reserved. New England Public Media | Everything. Nearly six decades later, Helene LaFaro-Fernandez continues to keep her older brothers flame alive. It was there his career exploded. 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. Victor Feldman. 2023 Madavor Media, LLC. On Sundays our family would go to church, then go to the movies in the afternoon. [5] He left that organization to work in Los Angeles. Scott Yanow, All-Music Guide Scott LaFaro's life and career were cut short in July of 1961. Our Dad was from here. 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 Everyone would say Dont go to the creek! but we did anyway, and would come home with red shoes. Also, Club 86 was bringing in major stars as well. Taking a tip from Red Mitchell, he trained himself to pluck the strings of his bass with his index and middle finger independently. Gloria Gabriel was one of the dancers. ", 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. 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. Friedman first heard LaFaro with Buddy Morrow, and then they worked together with Chet Baker. 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. 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. 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. I quit very fast, but he was a natural. Scotty had the concept for a trio to be conversational instead of the classic structure, instead of bass and drummer just keeping time. We would explore all around our neighborhood on West Street our house was where the elementary school is. Nov 13, 2008 #2 Mark Carlsen Oct 4, 2004 The Scott La Faro book was wonderful. Scotty and I were born in New Jersey but we moved back to Geneva in 1942. 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. He was playing mandolin and violin publicly by age 7. 1950s - 1960s. Nearly six decades later, Helene LaFaro-Fernandez continues to keep her older brothers flame alive. Tom holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he majored in English and African American Studies. 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. The 25-year-old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock . 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. Performers: Stan Getz, ts; Steve Kuhn, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Roy Haynes d. Newport, 2 July 1961. After that touch of piano, he really started to enjoy music and develop a keen awareness of what it was all about. 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. John Tynan wrote inDownbeatthat the rhythm duo [LaFaro and Billy Higgins] were the baddest cats on the date. 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. Composer: Styne / Sondheim May 23, 2021. My dad took Scotty to see anyone who came there, or to Syracuse or Rochester. LaFaro was killed in a car accident ten days after the recording. 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. 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. LaFaro-Fernandez: After Scotty joined the Buddy Morrow Orchestra, he traveled with them all over the country until they reached California, as he really wanted to be where the West Coast jazz scene was happening. Such is the legacy of bassist Scott LaFaro, though I would suggest that what was was more than we often think. 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. 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. Friedman relates inJade Visions,He used to play my piano, and was very interested in minor 7thchords with the flat 5th. . This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 08:03. Former Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Erickson has been charged in connection with a hit-and-run crash in Westlake Village that killed two . It was an idyllic childhood. 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. What kind of influence did your father have on your brothers music? When Evans returned to the trio format later in 1962, it was with Motian and bassist Chuck Israels.[2]. HOMETOWN Newark, NJ, United States of America BORN April 3, 1936 Similar Artists Paul Motian. He worked from sheet music for the clarinet, with its much higher pitch, to improve his command of the bass upper register. Q: What kind of influence did your father have on your brothers music? He lives in Boston and has contributed toJazzTimessince 2006. 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. Elsewhere, a legacy is a reflection on what might have been, based on a limited amount of what was. 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. LaFaro-Fernandez: When Scotty was in sixth grade we took our first piano lessons. "Route 66" songwriter Bobby Troup was the show's host. Composer: Urso Death. 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. 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. When did your brother start getting interested in music? The Jazz la Mode Blog has plenty to stimulate your interest and curiosity in American music. Everyone heard him. A master of the upright bass, he recorded with Bill Evans and Ornette Coleman before he died in a car crash at age 25. Helene says that she and Scotty were taken to hear Tony Bennett, the Mills Brothers, Dizzy Gillespie and numerous others. Composer: Mercer / Kosma / Prevert He replaced Charlie Haden as Ornette Coleman's bassist in January 1961. Before that grim July night, LaFaro had been a busy bassist. LaFaro also played opposite bassist Charlie Haden in alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman's experimental double quartet on Free Jazz. Kuhn remembers hearing that it was a St. Christopher medal that LaFaro always wore that helped to identify his badly burned body. But its a moment were meant to be a part of, that both surrounds us and is for us. The two albums released by Riverside Records from that fabled performance,Sunday at the Village VanguardandWaltz for Debby, have long stood as his epitaph. Your IP: Read More Joe Williams: Beyond the Blues, As a JazzTimes writer, I can talk about the powers of a dynamic drummer until Im blue in the face: the weight of each tom-toms Read More Chops: What Bassists Listen for in Drummers, America's jazz resource, delivered to your inbox. All is possible, and then all is no more. we do worse! According to Paul Motian, the death of LaFaro left Bill Evans "numb with grief", "in a state of shock", and "like a ghost". LaFaro and his stellar bandmates pianist Don Friedman and drummer Pete LaRoca run through four jazz standards, including two takes of Sacre Blu. "[3], It was voted number 465 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[10]. The CD reissue of the album contains several outtakes. I suppose technically, yes, though its also far more, and thats a LaFaro thing. Bill Evans Trio. The trio attracted attention for its style. [1] For a time, Haden and LaFaro shared an apartment. It is still so wild to me that he was so influential. Q: What happened to your brother after Ithaca College? Already a member? As weve already noted regarding the time period right around his tragic death, LaFaro packed a lot of art into his days. Composer: Porter He told Helene that Scott lived for the bassHe was looking all the time to play. ", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIzbINNrqcQ. Is that a bass thing? 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. Cool Modal Music Post-Bop. 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. 1926). This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Dad (Joe LaFaro) never forced us to play music. Our Dad was from here. Tom Reneys writings delve into the history and mystery of jazz, blues, and beyond. 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. Your family ended up following Scotty out to California. I dont blame him, said Morrow. 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. He also played in Stan Getz's band between jobs with the Bill Evans trio. In addition to hosting Jazz la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. 2023 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. A jazz musicians legacy can be a multifarious slope. 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. Providing entertainment, education, and the energizing force that pulls us all together in celebration of great work. Orrin Keepnews told Helene that when the trio recorded its second session,Explorations,on February 2, 1961, Scott was being very explicit about his problem; he was very reluctant to go back on the road unless it was for a lot more money. Q: When did your brother start getting interested in music? 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. Fraternal guidance, in that this endeavor allowed fellow band members to do what they best did. 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. He proved to be a natural for the instrument, which obsessed him, and early in his sophomore year he went on the road with Buddy Morrows orchestra. But LaFaro makes the music pulsehe provides its heartbeat and flow. This is the best piano player Ive ever heard. It was Evanss 1956 debut album,New Jazz Conceptions. 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. Performers: Thad Jones, tp; Herb Geller, as; Billy Taylor, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Elvin Jones, d. June 1959. Grit is not a LaFaro staple, but that does not mean texture isnt. 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. 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. Little must have loved LaFaros contributions, because he himself was one of those players between spheres: neither a bopper nor a hard-bopper nor an out-and-out New Thing guy. LaFaro continued to play this bass until his death. And how does it go? The highlight of the session was Scotts original, Misery (to Lady Day). Evans biographer Peter Pettinger said of the dedication to Billie Holiday, Not much happens, but a wavelength is established. 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. In 2009 she published a biography about him, Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro. LaFaro left Morrow and settled in Los Angeles in 1957. He waited until we got interested, and then he was totally supportive. Scott LaFaro - Death. Later in high school, kids would go to the movies with their friends, or boyfriends, or girlfriends. 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. Tales are told of how much John Coltrane practiced, but you could say the same about the bassist from Newark. LaFaro spent most of his days practicing his instrument. He took up bass because he was required to play a stringed instrument at Ithaca College. 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. Once he got the gig, his college days were over. The texture, however, is the back of the handthats the form of caress, rather than the rough-skinned palm. 1998 Kevin Crosby. 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. [1] He played in groups at the College Spa and Joe's Restaurant[4] on State Street in downtown Ithaca. The entire day's recordings were released in 2005 as The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961. Bassist Scott LaFaro of Geneva had already achieved acclaim when he died in a car accident at the age of 25. LaFaro originally played clarinet and tenor before settling on bass while in college. It is LaFaros bass that makes this thing go, such as it does go. 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. July 6, 1961 in Seneca, NY. Here is a verbal snapshot of that conversation, edited for clarity. Just about any jazz fan knows that on June 25, the 25-year-old had been in NYC as part of Bill Evans trio at the Village Vanguard, cutting the Sunday live date that will be reissued and repackaged so long as the earth continues to spin. Genres. Rocco Scott LaFaro, in a career that lasted only six years, developed skills on the upright bass that few have been able to match. (, This page was last edited on 15 February 2023, at 23:36. Available Qualities. Free Jazz did that kind of splicing and segmenting for you, as part of, neatly enough, its original integrated sonic package. When Scotty was killed at age 25 (I was 24), I was devastated I couldn't play for months. Genre. Search Music. LaFaro was honored in 2012 in Geneva, where a street was renamed Scott LaFaro Drive and an annual Scott LaFaroDay was inaugurated. The portion of Linden Street that runs from Seneca Street to South Exchange. The music of Jazz Abstractions proceeds as a series of shadings, which tend to be called variants on the finished LP. How did that happen? Performers: Bill Evans, p; Scott LaFaro, b; Paul Motian, d. 28 Dec 1958. All that listening to the trio had another effect on me. Brother man, I can all but hear Ornette saying, we are going to blow some minds tomorrow.. The title track, a musical portrait of Evans' niece, became a staple of his live repertoire in later years. 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. You can read our interview with Holland here. In his liner notes, producer Orrin Keepnews focused on the phenomenon of Bill Evans thepianist, but the lone paragraph devoted to the other members of the trio noted that they werent limited toconventional rhythmic backing, and cited Autumn Leaves, as a harbinger of things to come. The 25-year old Scott LaFaro's death in a car accident shortly after was a major shock to the jazz world. The Sampson Air Force Base was so big that it brought in big names like Duke Ellington. In 2009 she published a biography about him, Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro. Evans stopped performing for several months. While driving home late one night his car went off the road and struck a tree. We are in a fix! 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. [14] On April 4, 2014 a ceremony to rename a downtown street Scott LaFaro Drive took place. Then wed go home and have dinner and ice cream. 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. Scottys death was hard on my Mom. The album included five tracks recorded in New York City during 1961 with pianist Don Friedman and drummer Pete LaRoca.[13]. What were Scotts childhood and teen years like here in Geneva? Jan. 30, 2021 1:47 PM PT. April 3, 1936 in Newark, NJ. 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. 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.[] Killed in a car accident aged just 25, Scott LaFaro was widely regarded as the most technically gifted bassist of the 20th Century. 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