Scott La Faro

Victor Feldman Trio - Serpent's Tooth



Victor Feldman (vib)
Scott La Faro (b)
Stan Levey (ds)

Album - " The Arrival of Victor Feldman " 1958

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• scott
• lafaro
• victor
• feldman
• stan
• levey
• jazz
• bass
• bill
• evans

[catalystdrums123]

sorry jaco, I now have a new god

[SotR59]

I just learned about Scott LaFaro from Bass Player magazine.

I was never big into jazz. I know enough that I could pick out most of the big names in a photo. And I have some various jazz recordings. But LaFaro was a new name to me.

I was amazed to learn that he died so young. Reading the story, his body of output was leading me to believe that his career was lenghty.

After 30 years of playing electric bass I got an upright bass last week, the timing couldn't be better to discover Scott LaFaro.

[gomachols]

i always knew of scott as the guy who didn't stay long with ornette... figured he wasn't good enough or something. him and NHOP - who played with ayler. but the bass player usually is an odd one

[TubbyMex]

@catalystdrums123 I think in this regard that we can worship a pantheon... jaco is still a god, as is scott lafaro! :-)

[entengasse]

Das Original am Bass La Faro. Alle anderen sind PLAGIATE! Ja alle! andere! auch NHÖP. La Faro hat sich geopfert mit Leben.

[swingmanic]

Victor Feldman was an outstanding musician too, as a pianist, drummer, vibes player, arranger and composer too!..."Joshua" and "Seven Steps To Heaven" being just two examples of his compositional skills!

[redhouse7]

Scott Lafaro at 1:46 = pure magic

[casch0101]

@catalystdrums123

Please allow me to digress....Jaco has NOTHING to do with JAZZ (or else) bass playing. LaFaro is simply astounding. Also check out Niels Henning Oersted Pedersen (aka Niels Pedersen) (the best acoustic player ever) to hear what perfect intonation, overwhelming swing, top-notch technique and thourough understanding of harmony is about.

[slender1]

@rmac1042 I saw Scott at the Vanguard one night playing with Ornette. During an "intermission" I came over to him and said " Hi..what's going on? (or words to that effect) He just shook his head and said "I don't know whats going on man". Ornette could do that to you...you know.

[rezmogm]

@SotR59 Hey good for you! Now go and listen to all the Bill Evans Trio albums that Scott played on.  You will be totally amazed.

[SotR59]

@rootsmoncom

I think you mixed me up with someone else. I didn't say anything about Jaco.

[rootsmoncom]

@SotR59 Hiya, No, Jaco listened to him too. I read about Sctt LaFaro years and years ago and got him totally in the wrong era. First time I heard him playing, with Stan Getz as it was, just a too few years young to understand why all the big,hip guys at my school carried around "Saturday Night at the Village Vanguard". Don't be harsh on Jaco, he took it on.