
Of course. Mentor and heroine.

The inspiration for just about everything else I do on the bass.

Don't find too many pics of Scott LaFaro on the 'net. A pretty cool one at that.
If a piano player hadn't said to me in 1987, "I think the most influential bassist of the 20th century is Paul Chambers" And I didn't say, "Who?" I might not be where I am today.