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. All is possible, and then all is no more.īefore that grim July night, LaFaro had been a busy bassist. Perhaps one thinks of the contrast, as I do: the balmy New England coast, sailboats alongside the bandstand, and then the hard, unforgiving asphalt of the interstate. 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. Such is the legacy of bassist Scott LaFaro, though I would suggest that what was was more than we often think. Elsewhere, a legacy is a reflection on what might have been, based on a limited amount of what was. Other times, it’s distilled into a moment that seems to transcend itself, and thus it went for Paul Gonsalves, hero of a Newport afternoon. Sometimes it’s defined by contrasting stylistic paths that amalgamate into a career, as with Miles Davis. A jazz musician’s legacy can be a multifarious slope.
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