Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra - "Not In Our Name"

Amazon users rate this highly. ILXor thoughts? Been listening again to "Ballad of the Fallen" and being enamored.

ECM email is reporting that Charlie Haden passed away today.

https://twitter.com/destinationOUT/status/487696976197066752

http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/music/jazzblog/rip-charlie-haden

It is with deep sorrow that we announce that Charlie Haden, born August 6, 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa, passed away today at 10:11 Pacific time in Los Angeles after a prolonged illness. Ruth Cameron, his wife of 30 years, and his children Josh Haden, Tanya Haden, Rachel Haden and Petra Haden were all by his side.

Tina Pelikan
ECM Records Publicity

http://variety.com/2014/music/news/charlie-haden-legendary-jazz-bassist-dies-at-77-1201261391/#

well shit

this is the only charlie haden thread?

RIP

Aw, damn, I was listening to him just a few nights ago. RIP

RIP - that hank jones record he did a couple years ago was great, as was his Keith Jarrett duet album.

RIP - I haven't heard enough of his more recent work, but the early Ornette albums and the first Liberation Music Orchestra album are still radical and indelible.

sentimental favorite ... weird track, not the best showcase of his skills. i like it because i used to have my alarm clock set to jazz radio and i woke up to this track one morning, it was magical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2H5BCzuPOE

i wasn't really conscious until the "sextant"-sounding part about 6 minutes in and i thought i was still dreaming because it was so weird

So glad that he lived to hear the album recently released by his daughters.

he looked in fine health just a few years back, but that's how it goes.

what a musician

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW93IP5tnY0

To me he could do no wrong, never played a note he didn't mean, always had great collaborators and interesting things to say about other musicians, great family man, no false humility, no bluster, no jive, just a great tone and great music. Beautiful deep cat and I am very sad that I will never get to go to another one of his gigs, and didn't go to enough of them when he was here.

I feel so glad I got to interview him in person once (in '97; he was promoting Beyond the Missouri Sky, an album of duets with Pat Metheny). Seriously one of the calmest, most centered, kindest people I've ever met. Reminded me of my favorite Jesuit priest from the two years I spent in Catholic school. I only saw him play live twice—once with the Quartet West, that same year, and then again in 2003 at a NYC jazz festival; his group was on the same bill as Ornette Coleman's group, but they never took the stage together, unfortunately.

that metheny album is actually pretty nice.
there's an interview clip w/ haden (which i think appears in the ken burns jazz thing, maybe elsewhere) where he describes his first day with ornette and it's like it was a religious experience (he might even use those words i can't remember). it's just a good reminder that behind the genius of a guy like ornette, you need to have someone there at the very beginning who is just a complete true believer. a disciple if you want to get religious about it. like, there are lots of easier paths to go down if you want to be a musician than to align yourself with someone like ornette coleman. but haden seems to have done it with complete trust.

Charlie Haden sitting at the drums in the Synanon movie

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2014/07/charlie-haden.html

http://townhall.com/news/us/2015/01/14/jazz-stars-gather-for-memorial-to-bassist-charlie-haden-n1943035

Read elsewhere that this was quite touching and inspiring

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1072881/message-at-charlie-haden-memorial-hey-man-were-family
January 16, 2015

Message at Charlie Haden Memorial: “Hey, Man—We’re Family”

Jazz Musicians Honor the Great Bassist at Town Hall

By Larry Blumenfeld

I am massively loving his Folk Songs album and the collab he did with Carla Bley right now.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cc/cf/ba/cccfbaf764ddeed6522f74d9a2d7992d.jpg

<3

too cool