{"id":8351,"date":"2017-05-01T20:38:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T03:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2017-05-01T23:13:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T06:13:40","slug":"monday-recommendation-charlie-haden-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/05\/monday-recommendation-charlie-haden-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Charlie Haden Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Woodard and Haden<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ppWrqW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conversations With Charlie Haden<\/a> (Silman-James)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/HadenWoodard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/>Interviews transcribed from tape recordings and transformed into print are often boring substitutes for writing. With judicious editing, however, the technique can be illuminating. Journalist Josef Woodard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s many chats with bassist Charlie Haden (1937-2014) provide valuable insights into what fueled Haden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musical tastes and goals and the social conscience that was inseparable from his music. Woodard draws out Haden on child stardom in his family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s western band, his key role with Ornette Coleman and the emergence of free jazz, and events beyond. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I heard Ornette play,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he tells Woodard, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and I said, man, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been hearing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Among other areas of his packed musical life, Haden discusses his Liberation Music Orchestra, pianist Keith Jarrett, the importance of Carla Bley, the creation of Quartet West and his collaborations with Pat Metheny. The book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s laudatory forewords are by Bill Frisell and Alan Broadbent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woodard and Haden: Conversations With Charlie Haden (Silman-James) Interviews transcribed from tape recordings and transformed into print are often boring substitutes for writing. With judicious editing, however, the technique can be illuminating. Journalist Josef Woodard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s many chats with bassist Charlie Haden (1937-2014) provide valuable insights into what fueled Haden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musical tastes and goals and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8352,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}