Charlie Haden (Ornette Coleman, Liberation Music Orchestra) RIP
 

More musical bad news incoming, I'm afraid - double bassist, composer and political activist Charlie Haden has passed away at the age of 76, following a long illness: http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...den-dies-at-76

Haden is perhaps best known for his work with Ornette Coleman, and performed as part of Coleman's quartet on those classic Atlantic albums (including, of course, "Free Jazz"). He also played with John Coltrane (on "The Avant Garde" album, which also featured Don Cherry), Alice Coltrane, Yoko Ono, Archie Shepp, amongst many other (as well as Beck and Ringo Starr (no, I'm not making this up)). His longest-running concern though was his Liberation Music Orchestra (who recorded an album for Impulse! in 1973 - currently still in print on CD), whose most famous composition is "Song For Che", which Haden performed in Portugal in the early 70's, enraging the fascist Salazar regime there (and getting him into bother with the FBI to boot).

For now, though, I leave with this number, the title tune from "Change Of the Century". RIP Charlie - http://youtu.be/fpva1_of3L0

read this earlier today...

sad news.
Shape of Jazz to Come is one of the few jazz records i regularly come back to over the years.

Gotta check out Liberation Music Orchestra, never heard of it.

Indeed.

also, Jarrett's bassist in some of his more interesting combos

bass strummer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br-hL1wR0Ok

sad.

he also played with the minutemen.

Here's Charlie Haden giving it some distorted wah-wah double bass business on a Keith Jarrett number, from Jarrett's 1971 album "Birth": http://youtu.be/xM4AJUW9nqU

Charlie Haden had it goin on