{"id":675,"date":"2013-12-09T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2013\/12\/celebrating-charlie-haden.html"},"modified":"2014-01-07T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T00:19:52","slug":"celebrating-charlie-haden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2013\/12\/celebrating-charlie-haden.html","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Charlie Haden"},"content":{"rendered":"

TUESDAY night in Los Angeles will see both a celebratory and a sad occasion: The jazz titan Charlie Haden \u2013 the lyrical bass player, free-jazz pioneer, crucial collaborator to Ornette Coleman and others, father to a four Los Angeles indie rockers, founder of CalArts jazz program \u2013 will lead his Liberation Music Orchestra at REDCAT<\/a>. It has special music since this group \u2013 which Haden began in 1969 \u2013 was dedicated to music of the Spanish Civil War, Latin American independence and South Africa\u2019s fight for justice. The REDCAT show\u2019s arrangements were made by the jazz composer Carla Bley, who played a major role in the original group.<\/p>\n

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The bad news is that this may be the last-ever public appearance by Haden, whohas been very sick. He will pay with the group if he is physically able, but he may simply appear for a last hurrah from the Southland\u2019s jazz community.<\/div>\n
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I\u2019ve been listening to Haden \u2013 first, I think, on Coleman\u2019s Change of the Century, then on dates he led, like his Quartet West LPs and his Montreal dates \u2013 sinc<\/div>\n
e I got into jazz two decades ago. He\u2019s collaborated with more of my favorite artists \u2013 Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau, Paul Motian, Lee Konitz, Hank Jones, Kenny Barron, many others \u2013 than just about anyone I can think of. He\u2019s taught a number of young musicians I know and admire, and the Haden triplets and Josh Haden<\/div>\n

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(leader of the ethereal band Spain) are among the cream of LA\u2019s rock subculture.<\/div>\n
Haden, who grew up in a country-music family in the Ozark Mountains, and whose basslines still offer songlike lines and a country twang, contracted polio as a<\/div>\n
teenager, and he is now suffering<\/a>, in his 70s, from post-polio syndrome.<\/div>\n
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At this point, it\u2019s hard for me to contemplate the Southland jazzworld without Charlie Haden. So I won\u2019t. I urge everyone who loves Haden\u2019s music, and the numerous traditions that intersect in his work and life, to come out to REDCAT tomorrow and blow the roof off the place.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TUESDAY night in Los Angeles will see both a celebratory and a sad occasion: The jazz titan Charlie Haden \u2013 the lyrical bass player, free-jazz pioneer, crucial collaborator to Ornette Coleman and others, father to a four Los Angeles indie rockers, founder of CalArts jazz program \u2013 will lead his Liberation Music Orchestra at REDCAT. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,43,42,30,41,45,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-country","8":"category-hadens","9":"category-jazz","10":"category-los-angeles","11":"category-redcat","12":"category-spain-band","13":"category-west-coast","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}