[Marxism] Charlie Haden? Creeping Senility Strikes:

["DHE" <cuibono@xxxxxxxx>]

Senor Lebowitz: You must be pretty hip -- I wonder how many of today's radical 
generation have ever heard the Liberation Orchestra. 

I used to catch Charlie Haden around SF when he just got out of Synanon. What a 
player. Endless invention. 

One night he, Donald "Rafael" Garret and Bill Nuckols were all on the stand at 
the Both-And: Mr. Outside; Mr. Farther Outside; plus "Oatmeal".

Bill always claimed not to know C from G, but all the good bassplayers just 
loved him. Some people thought he had a good ear, but that wasn't it: he played 
kinetically, like a drummer. He just let The Force put his finger where it 
needed to be:) 

Drew strange pitchers, too: once on a long bus trip he was killing time 
sketching, middle of Durango somewhere. Then this dude comes up behind, looks 
over his shoulder for a while. All of a sudden starts cussing a blue streak en 
Espanol, pulls a gun & kicks him off the bus in the middle of nowhere, middle 
of the night. Seems something Bill drew struck this fella as disrespectful of 
La Virgen or something:)

Dewey Redman used to come & sit in at the Coffee Gallery.  Norman Wms was the 
chingon in those days, early sixties. Farrell "Little Rock" Sanders was this 
kid who couldn't really play, didn't know the tunes, no chops except could play 
high & do circular breathing -- but could play creative Outside before most 
people had any idea. 

Eventually it was Dewey  who turned out to be a great genius -- then got 
upstaged by his long lost kid! 

 But you put me on a trip: I have a Charles Fambro album somewhere (but can't 
find it) with this tune "Theme for Malcolm"? I think Steve Lacy is the soprano 
player but not sure. My memory is starting to have these holes in it.

It's a unique structure: everything (except the "bridge" part) is over 3-2 
clave, but you can't put palito on top cuz it clashes. It's all in seven bar 
phrases, (ever heard the old bebop joke: 7 X 7 = four bars, plus one for the 
bartender?) which I never heard in a jazz tune before except once: Horace's 
"Quicksilver" -- you know, the one that starts like "Ray's Idea" & then turns 
left? (A-B seven-seven, repeat, four bar bridge, then a sixteen bar vamp?)

I can't remember the name of the album either. Chas Fambro, "The... ...er". 
It's driving me nuts, HELP!!! 

Thanks,
Dan



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