Scott LaFaro

So Bill Evans and his film sort of has ignited a bit of interest in his career.

I do believe and have seen actually that there's a box set now of Bill Evans with Scott LaFaro in the trio.

So they were considered to be a dream match, based by Scott LaFaro with Bill Evans.

And it probably would have been most of the time...

What's his name? I've forgotten the drummer's name.

You may know Sammy Fane from his other work, like, for example, Love is a Many Splendored Things, songs like that.

Here he is doing the Disney 1951 tune, Alice in Wonderland, that was recorded in the Village Vanguard in 1961. with Scott LaFaro and the great jazz drummer, Paul Motion, who went on to record so many albums for the ECM record label.

Bill Evans.

And then Cassandra Wilson doing the Cyndi Lauper tune, which in the jazz world, Miles Davis made famous.

And you can make the argument, and you can definitely...

It's a reasonable thing that Scotty LaFaro was his idol, and he was doing that with Bill Evans and Paul Motion, those Vanguard stuff.

But Miroslav and that electric fusion, I mean, that dude was...

But they...

The film starts off there in a really beautiful kind of black and white performance of that.

But then we kind of, as we go on, we see that Bill Evans had quite a troubled kind of period after that, where, um, his bassist and good friend in the band, Scott LaFaro, died really tragically and quite young in a car accident.

Um, Bill Evans also himself suffered with addiction, so his brother comes, uh, played by Barry Ward, great Irish actor, actor, comes to, like, bring Bill to kind of stay with him and kind of look out for him, and then he ends up having to go to his parents down, uh, in Florida, played by Laurie Metcalf and the brilliant Bill Pullman.

And it was a-