Scott LaFaro Live Performance Video 1958 - 2 Songs, Best Quality Sound

The only known live footage of jazz legend Scott LaFaro, performing with the Richie Kamuca Quintet on the KABC TV Show “Stars of Jazz,“ April 7 1958. This footage includes significantly improved audio compared to other publicly available clips. “The things LaFaro did in-between piano phrases and across the time were phenomenal and made a deep impression on me. It was a conceptual thing; he served as a melodic counter-voice to everything else that was happening. He wasn’t walking all the time in 4/4, yet he had a real groove with Bill and Paul Motian. When they played ballads, the groove would go from first gear to second gear and back to first gear with an implication of double-time and other meters. He played with ideas that went over the bar line and obfuscated the one. His approach was truly creative and beautiful.” - Marc Johnson (bassist with Bill Evans Trio 1978-1980) “Hearing LaFaro improvise with the Bill Evans Trio makes clear what the bass has become through its second emancipation: a kind of super-dimensional, low-register “flamenco guitar,” whose sound has so many diverse possibilities as would have been thought impossible for the bass only a short time before, but which still (when there is demand for it) fulfills the traditional functions of the bass.“ - Joachim Berendt, The Jazz Book; from New Orleans to Rock and Free Jazz (1975)