{"id":9354,"date":"2018-04-03T23:12:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T06:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=9354"},"modified":"2018-04-04T22:57:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T05:57:44","slug":"april-3-birthdays-scott-lafaros-among-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/04\/april-3-birthdays-scott-lafaros-among-them\/","title":{"rendered":"April 3 Birthdays, Scott LaFaro&#8217;s Among Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jazz West Coast list serve often begins its posts with the names of jazz people born on the current date. The April 3 list is a profusion of such names.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Paul Abler, guitar, 1957 (d. March 3, 2017)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Jamie Davis, vocal<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Doris Day, vocal, 1922<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Terry Deane, tenor sax, 1972 (d. March 19, 2017)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Bill Finegan, arranger, leader, piano, composer, 1917 (d. June 5, 2008)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Stan Freeman, piano, celeste, vocal, arranger, 1920 (d. Jan. 13, 2001)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 James Gelfand, piano, 1959<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Art Harris, piano, French horn, vocals, arranger, (or March 4) 1927 (d.<br \/>\n1992)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Kenny Kersey, piano, 1916 (d. Apr.1, 1983)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Eric Kloss, soprano, alto and tenor sax, 1949<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Scott LaFaro, bass, 1936 (d. July 6, 1961)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Dennis Mackrel, drums, 1962<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Jimmy McGriff, organ, 1936 (d. May 24, 2008)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Bubber Miley, trumpet, 1903 (d. May 20, 1932)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Bob Mitchell, trumpet, 1920<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Mary O&#8217;Keefe, drums<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Walter &#8220;Fats&#8221; Pichon, piano, vocal, 1906 (d. Feb. 26, 1967)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Bill Potts, piano, arranger, 1928 (d. Feb. 16, 2005)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Tessa Souter, vocal<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Martin Speake, alto saxophone, 1958<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Scott Stroman, trombone, vocals, composer, conductor 1958<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Mayo Tiana, trombone, 1942<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Billy Taylor, bass, tuba, arranger, 1906 (d. Sept. 2, 1986)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Ray Vega, trumpet, 1961<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Harold Vick, tenor &amp; soprano saxes, flute, 1936 (d. Nov. 13, 1987)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Unknown-e1522821196959.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"278\" \/>It would be tempting to attach a video clip to each of those names, but we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to keep you up all night. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s be arbitrary and let Scott LaFaro be the surrogate birthday artist for all 26 of the performers born on this day. His composition \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gloria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Step\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is one of the pieces that LaFaro played with pianist Bill Evans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 trio in their celebrated Sunday at the Village Vanguard performances of 1961. LaFaro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s skill, creativity and ingenuity as a bassist and his interaction with Evans and drummer Paul Motian were central to the trio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musical achievement. He influenced virtually every bassist who succeeded him. His innovations were crucial to a redefinition of jazz rhythm sections. LaFaro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death in an automobile crash at 25 devastated Evans, who required a long recovery before resuming his career.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rARGPAkIcw4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Scott Lafaro, 1936-1961<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jazz West Coast list serve often begins its posts with the names of jazz people born on the current date. The April 3 list is a profusion of such names. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Paul Abler, guitar, 1957 (d. March 3, 2017) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Jamie Davis, vocal \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Doris Day, vocal, 1922 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Terry Deane, tenor sax, 1972 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}