Given the unmistakeable stench of revolution in the air (and I don't just mean in Iran, even the Guardian were calling for it here in the UK), now seemed to be a good occasion for an assembling of Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. As he explained at the start of the show, he first felt [...]
The Roots, Yoko Ono, Yo La Tengo, Patti Smith, Charlie Haden (with Robert Wyatt), and Moby are among the initial artists announced for Ornette Coleman's Meltdown Festival, which takes place in London from June 13-21. Coleman is also set to perform at least twice during the fest, which has been curated in the past by the likes of Massive Attack, Scott Walker, and Jarvis Cocker. [ Meltdown ; HT The Daily Swarm ]
Tenacious D frontman and School of Rock star Jack Black married into a pretty impressive musical pedigree--not like he really needed the help--when he wed singer Tanya Haden. Haden is one of the t... Continue reading "Jack Black to Play Opry at The Ryman" >
The first classic Mile Davis Quintet, recorded in 1955 when they were starting out, playing a Benny Golson tune, 'Stablemates.' Still finding their way at this point, a fascinating glimpse of what was to come when Davis road-hardened the band into a formidable playing and recording unit. With Philly Joe at the drums, they were always going to swing, yet Miles was evolving a new space to operate in, slowly clearing out the harmonic clutter of hard bop to point in new directions. (A process that was ongoing – arguably he had been on this road since [...]
Ginger Baker : Drums Bill Frisell : Electric Guitar Charlie Haden : Acoustic bass Love this set and I love this trio. If you don't have their albums already, you should grab them, they're excellent. This show has been floating around in various forms for a while now but I'm able to post it here thanks to the kindness of 'barabbovich'...a scholar and a gentleman! 01-ginger-trio-gingers-blues 02-ginger-trio-automation [...]
Apologies for the eleventh-hour entry, folks. I waited all weekend, hoping that my ear troubles would dissipate, but alas, it seems I am doomed to suffer the double distraction of deafness and tinnitus for a while longer. Happily, my ability to hear and appreciate live music was not as compromised as I feared. I spent a practically ecstatic Saturday afternoon at this year's Boston Celtic Music Festival , and I'm still glowing from both the music and the experience of folk-as-communion which was so prevalent [...]
Let's start with this. I love Charlie Haden. First off he has a discography that is simply amazing both in terms of its breadth and in terms of the number of different musicians and bands with whom he has collaborated. Now if you are not a jazz fan (primarily) you may not know Charlie Haden—although his collaborations with Pat Metheny has brought him more mainstream attention I suspect. But you don't have to be a jazz fan to like this album. In fact, I suspect some Charlie Haden jazz fans won't totally dig this album. See [...]
CHARLIE HADEN FAMILY & FRIENDS - Rambling Boy (Decca) "An unexpected but moving addition to Haden's discography, Rambling Boy may be the bassist's most deeply personal album to date." John Kelman, All About Jazz Seven Year Blues (MP3) [post][MySpace][Acheter] _____________ THE WHIPSAWS - 60 Watt Avenue (Blue Rose) "60 Watt Avenue is an original and diverse album that deserves a place
Today is the start of the holiday week in Istanbul and to celebrate the holiday spirit here's the second part of our 5 Star Monday series with all kinds of cheerful bluegrass, ska and world music. Club Nisei compiled by Hawaiian music preserver label Hana Ola of Hawaii's post WWII Japanese Music Scene from the 1940s. Charlie Haden track off his new album Rambling Boy where he sings country and bluegrass. Bluegrass covers of Iron Horse playing the Metallica thanks to a tip by error101. Horst Jankowski leeched off Flageolette [...]
Yet another slow release week. Damn the Christmas season. The only release I'm actually excited about is Burial's . Last year's Untrue was a 2007 favorite. And Denison Witmer could be good. Really, though... what else is going to be worth listening to this week? I don't even know. An album from Kevin Costner ? That could be interesting. Who wants to take bets on how many songs I get through before I have to shut that one off? :: Adversary [...]
Last week, rock legend Ray Davies dropped a bomb that rippled across the music world: A reunion of The Kinks was in the works. "We've started a little bit of this and that," Davies recently told BBC News , "but it is too early to judge the quality." He then hinted that if everything went right, they could have new material to tour with over the summer, depending on his brother Dave's health (he suffered a stroke in 2004). Dave, for his part, denies the rumors, posting this weekend on [...]
Pat Metheny : Guitars Michael Brecker : Tenor Saxophone Dewey Redman : Tenor Saxophone Charlie Haden : Acoustic bass Jack de Johnette: Drums I know this follows pretty quickly on from another '80/812 band show but there were requests for this show that I mentioned in that post and as we're going [...]
Pat Metheny : Guitars Michael Brecker : Tenor Saxophone Dewey Redman : Tenor Saxophone Charlie Haden : Acoustic bass Jack de Johnette: Drums 80/81 is still one of my favourite albums and this live recording is a total treat! Not as long as the more common Hamburg set but very well recorded and everyone's on fire . I've been to an awful lot of Pat gigs over the [...]
Everyone can remember the first album they bought. Mine were Kate Bush's The Kick Inside and Never Mind the Bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols , which I picked up simultaneously from Asda in Ditton. No less memorable for me is the first album I ever taped, Robert Wyatt's Ruth is Stranger than Richard . I had a truly horrendous copy of it, dubbed between two cassette decks, but it didn't matter. The music was unlike anything else I had heard before and I loved it, especially Song for Ché . [...]
Jim Hall : Guitars Charlie Haden : Acoustic bass Masterful stuff from two of the giants. I'm not sure if it gets much better than this. 1-first-song-chaden 2-body-n-souljgreen 3-big-blues-jhall
Charlie Haden : Acoustic bass Branford Marsalis : Tenor and Soprano saxophone Kenny Kirkland : Acoustic piano Billy Higgins : Drums This is wondeful snapshot of a one off concert at the excellent Vancouver Jazz Festival which I've had for years. Unfortunately my copy was very "hissy" and had a couple of drop out's so I haven't posted it here until now. This clean and sparkly version arrived on the door mat at "Urge2burge" [...]
RUSHOUR BROKEN SHADOWS Old and New Dreams Playing ECM : 1980 Dewey Redman, tenor sax, musette; Don Cherry, trumpet; Charlie Haden, bass; Ed Blackwell, drums. Is it possible this group is underappreciated? That instead of being recognized as a jazz super-ensemble, they are viewed more as an Ornette Coleman cover band? Though all bandmembers have strong ties to Coleman, and though Old and New Dreams drew on the Ornette songbook for [...]
THE GOLDEN NUMBER SHEPP'S WAY Charlie Haden The Golden Number A&M : 1977 Jazz Loft CH, bass; Ornette Coleman, trumpet (on "The Golden Number"); Archie Shepp, tenor sax (on "Shepp's Way"). Gold Fever, y'all: We're back with another installment of the Golden Number. In mathematics, the golden number refers to certain geometric properities that create a perfect square. In nature, the golden number [...]
Picasso's Guernica (image: wikipedia ) Bob from Brockley reminded me that Thursday was the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica by the Nazis and Italian Fascists supporting Franco's Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War . The brutal bombing, which caused widespread firestorms from the use of thousands of incendiary bombs, killed anywhere from 250-1,600 civilians and destroyed most of the ancient Basque town. Fighter pilots machine gunned those who survived the initial bombings and fled to surrounding [...]
OUT OF FOCUS TURNAROUND Charlie Haden The Golden Number A&M : 1977 CH, bass; Don Cherry, trumpet, percussion (on "Out of Focus"); Hampton Hawes, piano (on "Turnaround"). New Year's numerology: While De La Soul reminds us that three is the magic number, Tibetan mythology informs us that seven is the golden number. Seven is the digit most commonly used in mystical formulations to achelmize [...]
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