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 othe...