Interview with Helene LaFaro-Fernandez and "Jade Visions"

Classic Jazz Talk

This Jazz Classic Talk Show/Interview will be with author Helene LaFaro-Fernandez and feature her biography of her brother Scott Lafaro, "Jade Visions." Join me, Jose Reyes (Jazz Con Class Radio) and my co-host Noal Cohen (Author of "Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce") and learn more about the innovative Jazz bassist Scott LaFaro. We will also be joined and assisted by special guest, Phil Palombi, a Jazz bassist/composer/educator and author of "Solo Transcriptions of Scott LaFaro." More on "Jade Visions" (Amazon.com): Winner of the Best Book of 2009, Jazz Division, sponsored by AllAboutJazz-New York, 2009 Selected for "Best of the Best" from University Presses, ALA Annual Conference, 2010 Winner of the 2010 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Jazz, 2010 “Fernandez’ insightful comments about her brother offer far more than jazz scholars have ever known about this significant and somewhat enigmatic figure in the history of jazz. All in all, a very complete portrait.”—Bill Milkowski, author of Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius"....Learn More