[PEN-L:11666] Re: Charlie Haden

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> 09/24/99 01:08PM >>>
I have been moved to write about jazz bassist Charlie Haden after listening
to his latest and greatest CD, "The Art of the Song". It is consistent with
a number of others that he has released over the past half-decade evoking a
sort of romantic and retro approach to jazz, strongly influenced by a
vision of the more innocent Los Angeles of post-WWII years and of movie
culture.
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Thanks for this Lou. I once heard Haden and Coleman sitting so close to them that it was as if I was in the band. I remember Haden had cotton in his ears and I think it was because he had some sensitivity problem. I thought how rough for a musician, what a sacrifice. It was Detroit's Marcus Belgrave's jazz work shops, an ongoing school for Detroit youth. My brother, who has just now started playing sax again ,was in the workshops. I am not quite as much of an aficionado as you, but it I was just asking someone the other day about Coleman. I recall an album they had, I think with Don Cherry playing toy trumpet. It was called Free Jazz I think. I always thought of Coleman as the avant garde successor to John Coltrane, but it seems as if he has not been promoted as much. They probably means he IS real important.

I'm going to see if my brother, Phil, wants to look into this latest album, I mean CD.


It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing,

CB