SOLID. Life and Death of a Jazz Genius. SCOTT LAFARO

It is the first hours of Thursday, July 6, 1961 and a young man lies dead on a road near Geneva, 300 miles from New York, his body burnt beyond recognition on a hot summer night. A star of the American jazz scene has been extinguished. In a few moments, at just 25 years of age, the life of Scott LaFaro, one of the most innovative bassists in the history of jazz, is over. Solid. Life and death of a jazz genius/Scott LaFaro is neither a biography nor a musicological essay, it is a study, a po...