Scott LaFaro – The Legendary (1957)

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Jan 122013

Scott LaFaro - The Legendary (1957)
Producer : Scott LaFaro
Title Of Album name : The Legendary
Year Of Release : 1957
Label : Audio codec/sample size Fidelity
Beat Style : Jazz
Release Format : MP3
Quality : 320 kbps I 44.1 Khz I Joint Stereo
Total Time : 00:36:26
Total Size : 101 mb

Show or hide textBorn in Newark, New Jersey, LaFaro grew up in a musical family (his father played in many big bands). He started on piano while in elementary school, began on the bass clarinet in junior high school, changing to tenor saxophone when he entered high school in Geneva, NY. He only took up the double bass at 17 in the summer before he entered college, when he learned a string instrument was required for music education majors. About three months into his studies at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY, LaFaro decided to concentrate on bass. He often played in groups at the College Spa and Joe’s Restaurant on State Street in downtown Ithaca.
He entered college to study music but left during the early weeks of his Sophomore year, when he joined Buddy Morrow and his big band. He left that organization in Los Angeles after a cross country tour and decided to try his luck in the Los Angeles music scene. There, he quickly found work and became known
as one of the best of the young bassists. In 1959, after many gigs with such luminaries as Chet Baker, Percy Heath, Victor Feldman, Stan Kenton, Cal Tjader, and Benny Goodman, LaFaro joined Bill Evans, who had recently left the Miles Davis Sextet. It was with Evans and drummer Paul Motian that LaFaro developed and expanded the counter-melodic Beat Style that would come to characterize his playing. Ornette Coleman also collaborated with him around this time.

01 – Making Whoopee (5:32)
02 – In Your Own Sweet Way (5:05)
03 – Onilisor (4:17)
04 – Come Rain Or Come Shine (5:41)
05 – Blackeyed Peas (3:33)
06 – I Could Have Danced All Night (3:33)
07 – Yesterdays (4:34)
08 – Blues (4:08)