Double Bass Which Scott LaFaro Transcriptions?

[Elk]

Hello everyone,

I have a very talented student who is showing interest in the work of Scott Lafaro. I am going to buy some transcriptions for her (and myself, to be honest) but I am interested to know what transcriptions people are using.

The Phil Palombi book looks good, but hard to track down in Aus. It seems at one point a TB member named Adrian Laird his transcriptions to a website that is no longer working. Does anyone have access to these? Any others I should check out?

 

[Elk]

UPDATE: I found @Muck Luto thread, where he shared Adrian's transcriptions from before the website went down. These look pretty good!

 

[Leo Smith]

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/scott-lafaro-transcriptions-by-adrian-laird.1616050/

 

[Muck Luto]

Hello everyone,

I have a very talented student who is showing interest in the work of Scott Lafaro. I am going to buy some transcriptions for her (and myself, to be honest) but I am interested to know what transcriptions people are using.

The Phil Palombi book looks good, but hard to track down in Aus. It seems at one point a TB member named Adrian Laird his transcriptions to a website that is no longer working. Does anyone have access to these? Any others I should check out?

Hi,
Your student has really good taste !

I spent a lot of time this year on my favorite electric bass player :

The sound of Dave Richmond

This channel is dedicated to Dave Richmond, who must be the most famous unknown bass player. He played on countless records during the sixties and the seventies but his name and his work sadly remain unfairly unknown. Listening to 'Cargo culte', the impressive final of Serge Gainsbourg's...

www.youtube.com

But Scott Lafaro is an Everest that I will have to start climbing one day !

Good luck to her.

 

[Elk]

Hi,
Your student has really good taste !

I spent a lot of time this year on my favorite electric bass player :

The sound of Dave Richmond

This channel is dedicated to Dave Richmond, who must be the most famous unknown bass player. He played on countless records during the sixties and the seventies but his name and his work sadly remain unfairly unknown. Listening to 'Cargo culte', the impressive final of Serge Gainsbourg's...

www.youtube.com

But Scott Lafaro is an Everest that I will have to start climbing one day !

Good luck to her.

Wow, Muck -- I am already one of your 248 subscribers! No kidding! Small world 'n all that.

That tone with the tapewounds is really something, isn't it? And that Bourns

Love the channel, so keep it up. IYI Charles Nagtzaam's channel is another smaller one I check regularly.

 

[Muck Luto]

Wow, Muck -- I am already one of your 248 subscribers! No kidding! Small world 'n all that.

That tone with the tapewounds is really something, isn't it? And that Bourns

Love the channel, so keep it up. IYI Charles Nagtzaam's channel is another smaller one I check regularly.

Incredible !
I guess you already know this amazing thread :
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/serge-gainsbourg-that-je-taime-bass-sound-again.1373990/
I'm currently working on a book on the subject.
Took me a long time to tame this bison but it was worth it !

Thanks for the link to the other channel.

 

[Elk]

I guess you already know this amazing thread :

I was just reading it -- how very interesting. Richmond's tone is instantly recognisable. I can't believe he remembers so many details from those sessions...

Best of luck with the book! I will grab a copy, for sure. I am a big Scott Walker fan (how I discovered your channel in the first place).

 

[Muck Luto]

I was just reading it -- how very interesting. Richmond's tone is instantly recognisable. I can't believe he remembers so many details from those sessions...

Best of luck with the book! I will grab a copy, for sure. I am a big Scott Walker fan (how I discovered your channel in the first place).

Thank you !

"The old man's back again" is actually the key which allowed me to decipher Dave's sound on Melody Nelson.

And If you're into Scott Lafo, this is an absolute must-have written by his sister :

https://www.amazon.fr/Jade-Visions-Music-Scott-Lafaro/dp/1574412736

 

[crd]

Why not help your student make their own? Teach a man to fish yada yada

My personal favorite Lafaro is on "Portrait In Jazz." For whatever reason the trio always sounded the most spontaneous for me on that session.

 

[Ric Vice]

Hal Leonard published four volumes of Bil Evans Trio Transcriptions. Volume 1 has several full trio transcriptions some are of Scotts playing.

 

[Elk]

Why not help your student make their own?

A very good question and a mighty big can of worms you have opened. The short of it is that recent developments in music pedagogy suggest that transcribing doesn't help reading (as was long believed). Transcribing is an important skill, but she's only 14, so reading and aural are priorities at this stage in her progress.

 

[Elk]

Hal Leonard published four volumes of Bil Evans Trio Transcriptions. Volume 1 has several full trio transcriptions some are of Scotts playing.

I can't believe I didn't find these while researching. Thanks for the recommendation!

 

[Ric Vice]

I can't believe I didn't find these while researching. Thanks for the recommendation!

I don’t think they’re listed anywhere specifically as bass transcriptions. I stumbled on to them l searching for charts of Bill’s composition’s. It’s nice because they also transcribed Scott’s bass lines.

 

[Muck Luto]

A little more Scott Lafaro : I just came across this university thesis which includes transcriptions :

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[Muck Luto]

Hal Leonard published four volumes of Bil Evans Trio Transcriptions. Volume 1 has several full trio transcriptions some are of Scotts playing.

These transcriptions are included in another thesis :

http://www.olliedudekplaysbass.com/uploads/6/6/9/5/6695290/thesis_on_scott_lafaro.pdf

 

[Elk]

A little more Scott Lafaro : I just came across this university thesis which includes transcriptions :

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This is a goldmine