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Place |
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1959 (aet. 23) |
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Various dates | Los Angeles | Recording:
The Broadway Bit. The Modern Touch
of Marty Paich. [Burbank, CA:] Warner Brothers, 1959. Warner WB 1296 [and] WS 1296.
1 sound disc ; analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo ; 12 in. With Marty Paich, and others,
including, Art Pepper, Jimmy Giuffre, Mel Lewis. |
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January? | Los Angeles |
Gig: Masque Club
-- with the Paul Bley Quartet (probably late-Dec 58 to mid-Jan 59) "Paul Bley
took his new quartet into the Masque club on Washington [Boulevard] a few
blocks from the Hillcrest [club]. Lineup is Bobby Hutchinson [sic, in recté, Hutcherson] vibes; Scott LaFaro, bass; Nick Martinis, drums; and Bley on
piano." -- Dick Hadlock, Down Beat (January 22, 1959) p. 52. |
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February | Ukiah, CA | Attributed as performer during the
'live' recording,
At Ukiah. Stan Kenton Orchestra.
[Compact Disc] [S.l. : Status ; ?date] STCD 109. Alternate titles: Stan Kenton at Ukiah
1959 and Kenton at Ukiah. Note: This is per reference in Richard Cook and
Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP, and Cassette. 3d edition.
(NY: Penguin Books USA, 1996), p. 742.
Note: Mr. Steven D. Harris, author of Kenton Kronicles, and an authority on the discography of Stan Kenton, has informed me that based upon his research and documentation, the bassist on this Kenton recording At Ukiah! is Red Kelly not Scott LaFaro.
Accordingly, I have removed this recording from my LaFaro discography and
placed it on my Update page (under deletions) for future
reference. |
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Mon 02 and |
Los Angeles | Recording: Latinsville [Victor Feldman
ensemble]. Los Angeles: Contemporary Records, 1959. S-9005. Recorded 2 and 3 March 1959.
With Victor Feldman, vibes; Conte Candoli, trumpet; Frank Rosolino,
trombone; Walter Benton, tenor saxophone; Vince Guaraldi, piano; Stan
Levey, drums; Willie Bobo, Armando Perazza, and Mongo Santamaria,
bongos. |
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Mon 02 Mar and Wed 22 Apr |
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
sessions recorded. |
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Fri 06 Mar |
Santa Monica |
Gig:
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium -- with the Stan Kenton Orchestra, Fri
6 Mar 59.
This photo (Stan Kenton, piano and LaFaro is an excerpt from a larger one (10-by-14-in.) of the entire orchestra, courtesy of Steven D. Harris's Stan Kenton Archives. This was LaFaro's first
gig with the band. The blown-up photo is very similar to the one shown on
the LP cover of On the Road on the Artistry label." (S. Harris,
undated letter, rec'd in 2002) |
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Spring | California |
A reminiscence of LaFaro by Kenton trombonist Archie LeCoque:
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Friday 03 April |
LaFaro's 23rd birthday anniversary |
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Fri 17 Apr |
New York | "De retour a New York, il se produit aux cotes de Benny
Goodman, [et] dirige son propre trio (1959) . . ." (Anon., 'Annuaire Biographique
de la Contrebasse,' Jazz Magazine (May 1963), p. 26.). Note: According to D. Russell Connor, Benny Goodman: Wrappin' It Up (Latham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996). LaFaro rehearsed with the Goodman band (17 April) which band a week later (Fri 24 April) began a three-week tour of the US and Canada. (E-mail, 05 Sep 97, Suzanne Eagleston,
Librarian, Yale University Music Library.) |
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Mon 04 and Tue 05 May |
John Coltrane, Giant Steps
recorded. |
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Thu 21 May |
New York | Recording:
Gypsy. Herb Geller & His All
Stars. [New York:] Atco, Division of Atlantic Recording Corp. [1959] Atco 33-109. 1 sound
disc (36 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono ; 12 in. Selections from the musical Gypsy by
Jule Styne.
Jazz quartet and quintet with Herb Geller, alto saxophone; Elvin
Jones, drums; Thad Jones, trumpet; Hank Jones, piano; and Barbara
Long, vocals. Notes by Joe Muranyi. (From the Monti discography.) |
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Fall | San Francisco | I [LaFaro] learned more about rhythm when I played
with Monk last fall [Fall 1959]; a great experience. With Monk, rhythmically, it's just there,
always. (Williams, Introducing Scott LaFaro Jazz Review 3 (August
1960))
Also around this time, pianist Larry Vuckovich of San Francisco, recalls Scott working at the Jazz Workshop with Sonny Rollins, tenor; Elmo Hope, pianist; and Lenny McBrown, drummer. Vuckovich also remembers an occasion at the Blackhawk when, during a solo, the club's telephone started ringing, and LaFaro immediately began imitating the ringing phone with his playing (?strumming) the bass's upper register, echoing the phone. Larry
Vuckovich also sat in for pianist Vince Guaraldi, who was working with
Billy Higgins, LaFaro, and leader Stan Getz, at the Blackhawk. He
remembers in particular the group's playing the tune, 'You Don't Know What
Love Is'. (phone conversation with Larry Vuckovich, 24 December 2001) |
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Wed 28 and |
New York | Recording:
Dedications. Tony Scott. [Compact
Disc] Featuring Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian, Juan Sastre [and] Shinichi Yuize.
Hamburg, Western Germany: Core Records (a Division of Line Music GmbH) ; 1989. Core COCD
9.00803 O. 1 sound disc ; analog to digital, 4 and 3/4 in. Compiled and coordinated by
Arne Schumacher. Recording: Sung Heroes. Tony Scott. [Compact Disc] Featuring Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian. [S.l.:] Sunnyside Communications, Inc., 1989. SSC-1015-D. 1 sound disc ; analog to digital , 4 and 3/4 in. Note: This recording is similar to Dedications. Tony Scott comments: "Scott LaFaro worked with me but I never really had a chance to know him. He worked with me and it seemed to me that he was a very quiet man and very serious musician and it was a shame that he left life so early. I would like to have worked with him on more jobs and more records."
(E-mail
from Tony Scott, 5 Aug 02) |
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Sat 28 Nov |
New York |
Gig: Town Hall
-- with Thelonious Monk Quartet with Monk, piano and leader; Elvin Jones, drums; and possibly Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone, at Town Hall, NYC, Saturday, two shows 8 pm and 11 pm.
-- Ad in the Village Voice (Wed 25 Nov 59) p. 3 -- and -- the New York Times (Thu 26 Nov 59) p. 57 -- Reviewed: John S. Wilson, New York Times, Monday, November 30, 1959, p. 26: "Mr. Monk, who is normally the 'far out' element on any program on which he appears, found himself on a bill that included [Ornette] Coleman and Cecil Taylor." Reviewed: Whitney Balliett, "Jazz Concerts:
Historic," The New Yorker (December 5, 1959) pp. 150-152:
"Coleman was followed by Taylor, who at his best comes close to fusing a
jazz intent with classical patterns and harmonies, but who, in his two
numbers, seemed static and heavy in contrast to Coleman. After an interlude
by Lee Konitz, a cool alto saxophonist, and sung by Ernestine Anderson,
Monk played three numbers that were notable for a slow, hymn-like rendering
of 'Crepuscule with Nellie' and for the accompaniment by Scott LaFaro on
bass and Elvin Jones on drums. Although Jones played so strenuously in
the last number that he obliterated Monk -- and everyone else -- he proved
that he is the only drummer besides Art Blakey who can manage Monk's jarring
rhythmic peregrinations."
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Mon 28 Dec |
New York | Recording:
Portrait in Jazz. Bill Evans Trio.
New York: Riverside Records, Bill Grauer Productions, Inc., 1959. Riverside Stereophonic
RLP 1162 [and RS 9315]. 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo ; 12 in. With Bill
Evans and Paul Motian. |
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