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    EAN
    9781574415759
    ISBN
    1574415751
    Manufacturer
    University of North Texas Press
    Brand
    University of North Texas Press
    Binding
    TP

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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    University of North Texas Press
    ISBN-10
    1574415751
    ISBN-13
    9781574415759
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    201611929

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Jade Visions : the Life and Music of Scott Lafaro
    Number of Pages
    352 Pages
    Language
    English
    Publication Year
    2014
    Topic
    Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Genres & Styles / Jazz
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Music, Biography & Autobiography
    Author
    Helene Lafaro-Fernández
    Book Series
    North Texas Lives of Musician Ser.
    Format
    Trade Paperback

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    0.9 in
    Item Weight
    17.6 Oz
    Item Length
    9 in
    Item Width
    6.2 in

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    Fernandez' insightful comments about her brother offer far more than jazz scholars have ever known about this significant and somewhat enigmatic figure in the history of jazz. All in all, a very complete portrait."— Bill Milkowski , author of Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius "LaFaro's story is compelling not only because of his own prowess as a musician, but also due to the company he kept. How many musicians by their twenty-fifth year could say they had played with Benny Goodman, Ornette Coleman, Chet Baker, Stan Kenton, and Bill Evans? Only one. Scott LaFaro."— Frank Alkyer , publisher, Down Beat "Scott LaFaro was a true jazz innovator. His sound, sense of time and melodic invention blazed a trail for modern bassists and he was a beacon of light for those players who dreamed of more freedom within structure. Bill Evans once described Scott's playing to me:  'He was really discovering something every night on the bandstand. He had all these ideas that were just bubbling up out of him. And he had a way of finding notes that were more fundamental than the fundamental.' " — Marc Johnson , bassist "Scott LaFaro was a brilliant artist whose untimely death remains one of the great tragedies of jazz more than four decades later."— Jed Eisenman , manager of the Village Vanguard jazz club "Scotty was amazing. . . worked with all five fingers. . . ridiculously wonderful. . . most inventive."— Dick Berk , drummer "Scotty's playing was the bible for bass players … Jimmy Blanton the old testament, Scotty, the new."— Christian McBride , bassist, Winner of the Best Book of 2009, Jazz Division, sponsored by AllAboutJazz-New York, 2009 Selected for "Best of the Best" from University Presses, ALA Annual Conference, 2010 Winner of the 2010 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Jazz, 2010 "Fernandez' insightful comments about her brother offer far more than jazz scholars have ever known about this significant and somewhat enigmatic figure in the history of jazz. All in all, a very complete portrait."-- Bill Milkowski , author of Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius "LaFaro's story is compelling not only because of his own prowess as a musician, but also due to the company he kept. How many musicians by their twenty-fifth year could say they had played with Benny Goodman, Ornette Coleman, Chet Baker, Stan Kenton, and Bill Evans? Only one. Scott LaFaro."-- Frank Alkyer , publisher, Down Beat "Scott LaFaro was a true jazz innovator. His sound, sense of time and melodic invention blazed a trail for modern bassists and he was a beacon of light for those players who dreamed of more freedom within structure. Bill Evans once described Scott's playing to me: 'He was really discovering something every night on the bandstand. He had all these ideas that were just bubbling up out of him. And he had a way of finding notes that were more fundamental than the fundamental.' " -- Marc Johnson , bassist "Scott LaFaro was a brilliant artist whose untimely death remains one of the great tragedies of jazz more than four decades later."-- Jed Eisenman , manager of the Village Vanguard jazz club "Scotty was amazing. . . worked with all five fingers. . . ridiculously wonderful. . . most inventive."-- Dick Berk , drummer "Scotty's playing was the bible for bass players ... Jimmy Blanton the old testament, Scotty, the new."-- Christian McBride , bassist, Winner of the Best Book of 2009, Jazz Division, sponsored by AllAboutJazz-New York, 2009 Selected for "Best of the Best" from University Presses, ALA Annual Conference, 2010 Winner of the 2010 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Jazz, 2010 "Fernandez' insightful comments about her brother offer far more than jazz scholars have ever known about this significant and somewhat enigmatic figure in the history of jazz. All in all, a very complete portrait."-- Bill Milkowski , author of Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius "LaFaro's story is compelling not only because of his own prowess as a musician, but also due to the company he kept. How many musicians by their twenty-fifth year could say they had played with Benny Goodman, Ornette Coleman, Chet Baker, Stan Kenton, and Bill Evans? Only one. Scott LaFaro."-- Frank Alkyer , publisher, Down Beat "Scott LaFaro was a true jazz innovator. His sound, sense of time and melodic invention blazed a trail for modern bassists and he was a beacon of light for those players who dreamed of more freedom within structure. Bill Evans once described Scott's playing to me:  'He was really discovering something every night on the bandstand. He had all these ideas that were just bubbling up out of him. And he had a way of finding notes that were more fundamental than the fundamental.' " -- Marc Johnson , bassist "Scott LaFaro was a brilliant artist whose untimely death remains one of the great tragedies of jazz more than four decades later."-- Jed Eisenman , manager of the Village Vanguard jazz club "Scotty was amazing. . . worked with all five fingers. . . ridiculously wonderful. . . most inventive."-- Dick Berk , drummer "Scotty's playing was the bible for bass players ... Jimmy Blanton the old testament, Scotty, the new."-- Christian McBride , bassist, Winner of the Best Book of 2009, Jazz Division, sponsored by AllAboutJazz-New York, 2009 Selected for "Best of the Best" from University Presses, ALA Annual Conference, 2010Winner of the 2010 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Jazz, 2010 "Fernandez' insightful comments about her brother offer far more than jazz scholars have ever known about this significant and somewhat enigmatic figure in the history of jazz. All in all, a very complete portrait."--Bill Milkowski, author of Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius "LaFaro's story is compelling not only because of his own prowess as a musician, but also due to the company he kept. How many musicians by their twenty-fifth year could say they had played with Benny Goodman, Ornette Coleman, Chet Baker, Stan Kenton, and Bill Evans? Only one. Scott LaFaro."--Frank Alkyer, publisher, Down Beat "Scott LaFaro was a true jazz innovator. His sound, sense of time and melodic invention blazed a trail for modern bassists and he was a beacon of light for those players who dreamed of more freedom within structure. Bill Evans once described Scott's playing to me: 'He was really discovering something every night on the bandstand. He had all these ideas that were just bubbling up out of him. And he had a way of finding notes that were more fundamental than the fundamental.' " --Marc Johnson, bassist "Scott LaFaro was a brilliant artist whose untimely death remains one of the great tragedies of jazz more than four decades later."--Jed Eisenman, manager of the Village Vanguard jazz club "Scotty was amazing. . . worked with all five fingers. . . ridiculously wonderful. . . most inventive."--Dick Berk, drummer "Scotty's playing was the bible for bass players ... Jimmy Blanton the old testament, Scotty, the new."--Christian McBride, bassist "It's astonishing that [LaFaro's] massive reputation is primarily based on a handful of albums that feature him in full flower: the four recorded with the Bill Evans Trio, two by Coleman and Jazz Abstractions, a Gunther Schuller recording. His work on these is so amazing, his facility on his instrument so fluid, his melodic ideas and group interplay concepts so advanced that they still reverberate today. Finally LaFaro has a worthy volume commensurate with his stature in music."--AllAboutJazz.com, "It's astonishing that [LaFaro's] massive reputation is primarily based on a handful of albums that feature him in full flower: the four recorded with the Bill Evans Trio, two by Coleman and Jazz Abstractions , a Gunther Schuller recording. His work on these is so amazing, his facility on his instrument so fluid, his melodic ideas and group interplay concepts so advanced that they still reverberate today. Finally LaFaro has a worthy volume commensurate with his stature in music."-- AllAboutJazz.com
    Dewey Edition
    23
    Series Volume Number
    4
    Dewey Decimal
    787.5165092
    Synopsis
    Jade Visions is the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential jazz musicians, bassist Scott LaFaro. Best known for his landmark recordings with Bill Evans, LaFaro played bass a mere seven years before his life and career were tragically cut short by an automobile accident when he was only 25 years old. Told by his sister, this book uniquely combines family history with insight into LaFaro's music by well-known jazz experts and musicians Gene Lees, Don Thompson, Jeff Campbell, Phil Palombi, Chuck Ralston, Barrie Kolstein, and Robert Wooley. Those interested in Bill Evans, the history of jazz, and the lives of working musicians of the time will appreciate this exploration of LaFaro's life and music as well as the feeling they've been invited into the family circle as an intimate., Winner of the Best Book of 2009, Jazz Division, sponsored by AllAboutJazz-New York, 2009. Selected for "The Best of the Best" from University Presses, ALA Conference, 2010. Winner of the 2010 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Jazz, 2010. Jade Visions is the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential jazz musicians, bassist Scott LaFaro. Best known for his landmark recordings with Bill Evans, LaFaro played bass a mere seven years before his life and career were tragically cut short by an automobile accident when he was only 25 years old. Told by his sister, this book uniquely combines family history with insight into LaFaro's music by well-known jazz experts and musicians Gene Lees, Don Thompson, Jeff Campbell, Phil Palombi, Chuck Ralston, Barrie Kolstein, and Robert Wooley. Those interested in Bill Evans, the history of jazz, and the lives of working musicians of the time will appreciate this exploration of LaFaro's life and music as well as the feeling they've been invited into the family circle as an intimate.
    LC Classification Number
    ML418.L34L34 2009

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