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Scott LaFaro Discography: 2000 --

This is the fourth of four (4 of 4) sections devoted to re-issued recordings.

Table of Contents

 2000, 1987  Waltz for Debby  Bill Evans [CD--20-bit K2 super coding]
 2001, 1987  Portrait in Jazz  Bill Evans [CD--20-bit K2 super coding]
 2001, 1987  Sunday at the Village Vanguard  Bill Evans [CD--20-bit K2 super coding]
 2001, 1987  Explorations  Bill Evans [CD--20-bit K2 super coding]
 2002, 1961  Complete Live At the Village Vanguard  Bill Evans [3-CD set] -- Japan release
 2003  Latinsville!  Victor Feldman CD
 2004, 1993  Ornette!  Ornette Coleman CD
 2005, 1961  Complete Live At the Village Vanguard  Bill Evans [3-CD set] -- USA release
 2007, 1957  This is Pat Moran: Complete Trio Sessions  Pat Moran Trio [CD]
 2007, 1958  Buddy DeFranco: Generalissimo / Live Date  Buddy DeFranco [CD]
 2007, 1958  Harold Land Quartet: Jazz at the Cellar 1958  Harold Land Quartet [CD]
     

 

Photo of red cardboard sleeve in which is inserted the CD jewel case.

Waltz for Debby. Bill Evans Trio. With Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian. [Compact Disc] 2000 Fantasy, Inc. Re-release. Riverside Compact Disc Digital Audio, RCD-9399-2 (RLP 9399) DIDX 71924. Recording engineer, David Jones; Mastering engineer, Shigeo Miyamoto under supervision of Tamaki Beck for JVC Studios. "This album was mastered in analog utilizing the 20-bit K2 super coding system."  Produced by Orrin Keepnews. Recorded in performance at the Village Vanguard, New York City, June 25, 1961. Program booklet reprints original liner notes by Joe Goldberg.  "This edition limited to 10,000 copies."

Performers:

Program:

 

Note:  The 1987 CD re-lease placed alternated versions of program selections right after the originally-released versions.  This 2000 CD re-release rearranges these selections so that they do not follow one after the other.

"This album was mastered in analog utilizing the 20-Bit K2 Super Coding System. Developed by JVC, the 20-Bit [system] integrates three important digital audio functions:

The end result is a compact disc of extraordinarily higher resolution than that of today's conventional compact discs. The [system] allows the listener to hear every subtle sonic nuance from the breathing of the musicians to the explosive crack of the snare drum. Enjoy!"

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Photo of red cardboard sleeve in which is inserted the CD jewel case.

Portrait in Jazz  Bill Evans Trio. [Compact Disc] 2001 Fantasy, Inc. re-release. Riverside Compact Disc, Digital Audio, RCD-1162-2 (RLP-1162) DIDX 074038. Produced by Orrin Keepnews. Mastering engineer, Shigeo Miyamoto under supervision of Tamaki Beck for JVC Studios. "This album was mastered in analog utilizing the 20-bit K2 super coding system."  Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios, New York City, December 28, 1959. Program booklet reprints original liner notes by Orrin Keepnews.  "This edition limited to 10,000 copies."

Performers:

Program:

"This album was mastered in analog utilizing the 20-Bit K2 Super Coding System. Developed by JVC, the 20-Bit [system] integrates three important digital audio functions:

The end result is a compact disc of extraordinarily higher resolution than that of today's conventional compact discs. The [system] allows the listener to hear every subtle sonic nuance from the breathing of the musicians to the explosive crack of the snare drum. Enjoy!"

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Photo of red cardboard sleeve in which is inserted the CD jewel case.

Sunday at the Village Vanguard. Bill Evans Trio. Featuring Scott LaFaro. [Compact Disc]  2001 Fantasy, Inc. Re-release. Riverside Compact Disc Digital Audio, RCD-9376-2  DIDX 074040. Recording engineer, Dave [David] Jones; Mastering engineer, Shigeo Miyamoto under supervision of Tamaki Beck for JVC Studios. "This album was mastered in analog utilizing the 20-bit K2 super coding system."  Produced by Orrin Keepnews. Recorded in performance at the Village Vanguard, New York City, June 25, 1961. Program booklet reprints original liner notes by Orrin Keepnews.  "This edition limited to 10,000 copies." 

Performers:

Program:

Note:  The 1987 CD re-release placed alternated versions of program selections right after the originally-released versions.  This 2000 CD re-release rearranges these selections so that they do not follow one after the other, excepting takes 1 and 3 of 'All of You'.

Note: Unlike the 1987 CD re-release, this 2001 CD includes all three takes of 'All of You'.

"This album was mastered in analog utilizing the 20-Bit K2 Super Coding System. Developed by JVC, the 20-Bit [system] integrates three important digital audio functions:

The end result is a compact disc of extraordinarily higher resolution than that of today's conventional compact discs. The [system] allows the listener to hear every subtle sonic nuance from the breathing of the musicians to the explosive crack of the snare drum. Enjoy!"

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Photo of red cardboard sleeve in which is inserted the CD jewel case.

Explorations.  Bill Evans Trio. [Compact Disc]  2002 Fantasy, Inc. Re-release. Riverside Compact Disc Digital Audio, RCD-9351-2  DIDX 082340. Recorded by Bill Stoddard at Bell Sound Studios, New York City: February 2, 1261. Mastering engineer, Shigeo Miyamoto under supervision of Tamaki Beck for JVC Studios. "This album is remastered using A/D converter with digital K2 Interface." (text insert, back of jewel case) Produced by Orrin Keepnews. Program booklet reprints original liner notes by Orrin Keepnews.  "This edition limited to 10,000 copies." (back of red cardboard case for jewel case)

Performers:

Program:

Note:  The 1987 CD re-release placed both takes of 'Beautiful Love' one after the other as take 2 and Take 1. This 2000 CD re-release rearranges them as indicated above.

Program note (from the 1987 CD release):

“Although the originally-issued version of 'Beautiful Love' is designated as Take 2, and the alternate that follows it here is Take 1, this is not the usual case of a second attempt that immediately followed the first. On the contrary, it is a prime example of Evans's impatience and perfectionism. Early in this date, he played this number once; we both approved; and he moved on to something else. Much later (after having worked on seven other selections), he decided to try a second 'Beautiful Love,' which he later preferred. 'The Boy Next Door' was the tune that the pianist set aside as most expendable when we found we had more material than would comfortably fit on the album. It was later included on the Milestone 'twofer' Spring Leaves (M-47034), and both of these bonus selections are in the boxed set Bill Evans: The Complete Riverside Recordings (R-018), but this Compact Disc marks their first inclusion with the original album.”   Initialed: --O.K. (1987)

Program note (from back of red cardboard sleeve for jewel case):

"The second album by the original Bill Evans group was recorded after the pianist, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Paul Motian had spent a year working together and honing the telepathy that established a new standard for trio interaction. featuring intimate readings of several standards, plus three compositions from the jazz world that became synonymous with the trio's sounds, and with ample space for LaFaro's virtuosity to shine, the album was cited by Evans years later as among his own favorite recordings. With an excellent performance of 'The Boy Next Door' (omitted from the original release for lack of space) and an alternate take of 'Beautiful Love,' this edition of Explorations contains all of the music preserved by one of jazz's seminal bands on its final visit to a recording studio."

"This album was mastered in analog utilizing the 20-Bit K2 Super Coding System. Developed by JVC, the 20-Bit [system] integrates three important digital audio functions:

The end result is a compact disc of extraordinarily higher resolution than that of today's conventional compact discs. The [system] allows the listener to hear every subtle sonic nuance from the breathing of the musicians to the explosive crack of the snare drum. Enjoy!"

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Bill Evans: The Complete Live At the Village Vanguard 1961.  [Tokyo] Japan:  Victor Entertainment, 2002.  Recorded in performance at the Village Vanguard, New York, NY, 25 June 1961 with Bill Evans, piano; Scott LaFaro, bass, and Paul Motian, drums.  (VICJ-60951-3) boxed set of 3 sound discs each 4 and 3/4 in., in separate jewel-box cases. Included also is a 13 pp. program booklet in English and Japanese.  Run times:  CD 1 (VICJ-60951)  49:29; CD 2 (VICJ-60952)  64:21; CD 3 (VICJ-60953)  39:31.

This 3-CD boxed set was released in the USA in August 2005.

Performers:

Program:

Disc 1 -- Afternoon Set 1

 -- Afternoon Set 2

Disc 2 -- Evening Set 1

-- Evening Set 2

Disc 3 -- Evening Set 3


 The original 1961 recording was produced by Orrin Keepnews and engineered by David Jones of Riverside Records.  This 2002 analog-to-digital re-mastering, utilizing the 20-bit K2 Super Coding System, was accomplished by Tamaki Beck of FLAIR (JVC Aoyama Studios, Tokyo) with tape research by Stuart Kremsky, CD assembly by Joe Tarantino, production coordination by Bill Belmont, and design by Yoko Nakamura (program booklet, verso title page).  Musical selections are arranged in chronological order of their performance.

My comments on this extraordinary re-mastering and reissue:

Listeners familiar with every audible nook and cranny of the original Bill Evans Riverside LPs Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz For Debby, which recordings comprised most of the music made that magical Sunday in New York in early summer 1961, were amazed later in the 1970s with the re-issue of these recordings along with previously un-released takes.  In the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, with the advent of the CD, increased sonority and clarity were noticeable.  The present compilation continues in this tradition, revealing to the listener the following new information about this seminal recording:   

Comments from Japan's Kohji 'Shaolin' MATSUBAYASHI, one of the keepers of the Jazz Discography Project < www.jazzdisco.org  > (April 2004)

Dear Chuck Ralston-san

Hi, I've read your great Scott LaFaro web site.  As you may already know, this great 3-CD boxed set (Victor Japan VICJ-60951/3) DOES include previously un-released materials.  "Gloria's Step (take 1)", which was known as the very first tune recorded on this session unfortunately suffered an accidental power failure. This take first appears on this . . . set (with a few seconds' [of] silence due to a power failure.  "... a few final bars...", the last recording of the entire session, after "Jade Visions (take 2)", is also included.  It is just a dozen seconds of Bill Evans' unaccompanied piano. The most remarkable aspect of this set, without a doubt, is that all materials are unedited, including audience chatter as well as the trio's conversations and even Orrin Keepnews' whispering between every tune.  This means that this set was mastered directly from unedited master tapes. With this set, we can finally share a "virtual experience" of the entire session -- the most famous and legendary recording of June 25, 1961, at the Village Vanguard by Evans, LaFaro, and Motian.

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Latinsville!  Victor Feldman with [see performers list below].  Berkeley, CA: Contemporary Records 2003.  Contemporary CCD-9005-2. Total time:  66:03  With multi-fold 4-pp. program booklet with original 1960 'liner notes' by Leonard Feather. Produced by Lester Koenig. Recorded at Contemporary's studio, Los Angeles, 1958-1959.  Remastering by Kirk Felton, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA. Cover art based on a photograph by Nick King.

Performers:

Victor Feldman  piano and vibes
Walter Benton  tenor saxophone
Willie Bobo  timbales
Conte Candoli  trumpet
Vince Guaraldi  piano
Frank Guerrero  timbales
Scott LaFaro  bass
Stan Levey  drums
Al McKibbon  bass
Nick Martinis  drums
Armando Peraza  bongos
Tony Reyes  bass
Ramon Rivera  congas
Frank Rosolino trombone
Mongo Santamaria congas
Andy Thomas piano

Program:

Who performs on which track?:

Feldman, Candoli, Rosolino, Benton, Guaraldi,
LaFaro, Levey, Bobo, Santamaria, Peraza

Same as Session 1 minus Rosolino and Levey

Same as Session 1 except McKibbon replaces LaFaro

Feldman, Thomas, Reyes, Guerrero, and Rivera

Feldman, Benton, Rosolino, LaFaro, Martinis

Same as Session 5 except Feldman plays piano and vibes

"Judging by the number of sessions it took to complete, the original Latinsville! album seems to have been a rather difficult project. Now we get a better sense of the album's gestation with the inclusion of five tracks recorded at a pair of previously unknown sessions. A quintet gathered at Contemporary's studios over two days in December 1958, to begin work on Feldman's second album for the label.  Producer Les Koenig got as far as assembling an album side before a decision was evidently made to abandon the material and start over with an explicitly Latin feeling. A search of  our vaults for bonus material for this reissue yielded nothing usable from the 1959 sessions, but it did uncover that assembled reel, along with the December session tapes. The tape boxes themselves divulged dates, song titles and engineering credits. Contemporary's original ledger books supplied the final part of the puzzle by revealing the names of the musicians who were paid for the dates." -- Stuart Kremsky, tape vault archivist (from the program booklet)

My notes:

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Ornette!  The Ornette Coleman Quartet. Burbank, CA: Warner Strategic Marketing Group [to include Atlantic Recording Corp. and Rhino [Records]), R2-73714 (Warner Bros. Jazz Masters [series])  CD reissue 2004; original LP January 1961.  1 sound disc : analog (monophonic)-to-digital ; 4 and 3/4 in. Total time: 54:28.  Includes 15-pp. program booklet.

Reissue supervision: Joel Dorn, Atlantic Jazz Masters supervision: Patrick Milligan, Audio Supervision: Jeff Magid, Remastering: David Donnelly at DNA Mastering, Studio City, CA; (program booklet, p. 15)

Performers:

Program:

Recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, NY, 31 January 1961. Released as Atlantic SD-1378, February 1962.  Original LP included four tracks:  W.R.U and T.&T. on side A; C.&D. and R.P.D.D. on side B.

"Bonus track" 5, 'Proof Readers' is an outtake recorded during the Ornette! session, first issued on Ornette Coleman: Beauty Is A Rare Thing; The Complete Atlantic Recordings Rhino-Atlantic, R2-71410, November 1993.

Note: CD's program booklet reports copyright of 1962 and 2003.  Actual CD label reads,  "This reissue and compilation P 1993 and 2004 Atlantic Recording Corporation . . ."

Program booklet includes an essay on Ornette Coleman by Nat Hentoff (pp. 2-7) as well as original LP liner notes by Gunther Schuller.

See "Excerpt" (1961 LP entry for Ornette!) for Gunther Schuller's remarks about LaFaro.

Ornette! was released in 1999 as one part of the CD reissue of two LP recordings:  a two-LP re-issue, A Meeting of the Times and Ornette!  but minus Track 5, 'Proof Readers'.

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Pat Moran: Complete Trio Sessions. Spain : Fresh Sound Records [c2007] FSR-CD-440 ; 1 Sound Disc ; Analog to Digital ; 4 and 3/4 in. TT: 76:00. Produced for CD re-release by Jorge Pujol. Compilation of most of two previously-released Audio Fidelity long-play recordings: This is Pat Moran (AFSD-5875) and Beverly Kelly Sings with the Pat Moran Trio (AFLP-1874). Includes program booklet (2 p.) the cover of which reproduces the photograph of the container (jacket, sleeve) of the LP This is Pat Moran with that same title.

Performers:

Program:

  1. Making Whoopee (Donaldson-Kahn)
  2. In Your Own Sweet Way (Brubeck)
  3. Onilosor (Rosolino) ['Onilisor' on the LP This is Pat Moran]
  4. Come Rain or Come Shine (Arlen-Mercer)
  5. Collared Greens and Black-Eyed Peas (Pettiford) ['Blackeyed Peas' (Glover) on the LP This is Pat Moran)
  6. I Could Have Danced All Night (Lerner-Lowe)
  7. Yesterdays (Kern)
  8. Blues (Moran-Frey)
  9. The Man I Love (G and I Gershwin)
  10. I Get A Kick Out Of You (Porter)
  11. I Wish I Knew (Harris-Young)
  12. You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye-DePaul)
  13. I'm Glad There Is You (Madeira-Dorsey)
  14. Sometimes I'm Happy (Youmans-Caesar-Gray)
  15. You And The Night And the Music (Schwartz-Dietz)
  16. But Not For Me (G and I Gershwin)
  17. Embraceable You (G and I Gershwin)
  18. Lover Come Back To Me (Romberg-Hammerstein II)
  19. Someone To Watch Over Me (G and I Gershwin)
  20. Goodbye (Jenkins) [this is 'Farewells' (Moran-Frey) on the LP This is Pat Moran)

This CD omits two tracks from the 12-track LP This is Pat Moran:

This CD omits two tracks from the 12-track LP Beverly Kelly Sings . . .:

This CD re-arranges two tracks from the two LPs, as follows:

This CD re-names track B4 'Farewells' (Moran-Frey) from the LP This is Pat Moran as:

Note: program notes to this CD introduce conflicting information about the drummer's identity. The CD's liner notes report that "according to Beverly Kelly it was Johnny Whited, Pat Moran's regular drummer." I assume this is based on conversation between producer Jordi Pujol and Ms. Kelly. Ms. Patti Moran McCoy, however, remembers Gene Gammage as the drummer at the recording sessions that resulted in these two LPs and this CD.

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Generalissimo + Live Date.  Buddy DeFranco.  [S.l. - Europe?] Lone Hill Jazz [2007]. CD re-release of LPs Generalissimo and Live Date! from recording sessions of 2 April and 4 April 1958 respectively. 
 Includes 12-pp. program booklet.
 
 
For the recording Live Date!

Performers:

Program (by track number):

Notes.

 
 
 
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Harold Land Quartet: Jazz at the Cellar 1958. [Barcelona : Lone Hill Jazz [c2007]  LHJ-10291 ; 1 Sound Disc ; Analog to Digital ; 4 and 3/4 in. TT 79:37. 
Recorded 'live' on location at The Cellar, Vancouver, Canada, November 1958. All tracks previously unissued in any format.
 
Performers:
 
 
Program:
 
  1. Cherokee (Ray Noble) -- 18:58
  2. Just Friends (J. Klenner -- S. M. Lewis) -- 19:39
  3. The Scene Is Clean (Tadd Dameron) -- 1:17 [MC names performers, Scotty LaFaro, Elmo Hope, Lenny McBrowne, and Harold Land]
  4. Big Foot (Charlie Parker) -- 27:44
  5. Come Rain Or Come Shine (H. Arlen -- J. Mercer) -- 11:57
 
 
 
 
 
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