1. Rocco Scott LaFaro was an American jazz double bassist known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio.
14 Facts About Scott LaFaro
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Scott LaFaro was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a big band musician.
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Scott LaFaro was five when his family moved to Geneva, New York.
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Scott LaFaro started playing piano in elementary school, bass clarinet in middle school, and tenor saxophone when he entered high school.
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Scott LaFaro took up double bass at 18 before entering college because learning a string instrument was required of music education majors.
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Scott LaFaro played in groups at the College Spa and Joe's Restaurant on State Street in downtown Ithaca.
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Scott LaFaro left that organization to work in Los Angeles.
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Scott LaFaro practiced from sheet music for the higher-pitched clarinet to improve his facility with the upper register for bass.
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Scott LaFaro replaced Charlie Haden as Ornette Coleman's bassist in January 1961.
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Scott LaFaro played in Stan Getz's band between jobs with the Bill Evans trio.
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Scott LaFaro died in an automobile accident on July 6,1961, in Seneca, New York, on US Route 20 between Geneva and Canandaigua, four days after accompanying Stan Getz at the Newport Jazz Festival.
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We were talking to Miles about it, it was all set up, and then Scott LaFaro got killed and the whole thing got forgotten.
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Scott LaFaro started his professional career playing a German-made Mittenwald double bass, but it was stolen in the spring of 1958.
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Scott LaFaro 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.