Here’s Shelly Manne playing a funk jam— What Laurie Likes, by Art Pepper, from Pepper’s album Living Legend. This is really just to get you to listen to Charlie Haden— that’s a bassist— who is […]
Category: Charlie Haden
Transcription: Billy Higgins / Tears Inside
Tears Inside, from Pat Metheny’s album Rejoicing, is such a favorite track of mine, I’m surprised we haven’t done anything with it before. I did transcribe the drum intro for the forthcoming[!!!] Book of Intros. So […]
DBMITW: Ornette Coleman live, 1968
A little change in gears as we near the end of our little fund raising drive. A big thanks to the mighty few who have made donations and purchased books— if any of our other […]
Ornette live in ’58
Here’s something remarkable: Ornette Coleman recorded live in LA in 1958, just before his big national exposure in New York. The band includes the musicians in his famous quartet: Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy […]
Daily best music in the world: Ornette live — 1973
I’ll be out for a couple of days here— playing at the Jazz Station in Eugene tonight with flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny, attending a memorial service for my partner/wife’s mother, and having my own birthday with […]
Billy’s best
Here’s some more essential Billy Higgins listening for you. I hesitate to declare anything the best— because a) the man played on over 700 albums, of which I have been exposed to, what, 5-7%? And […]
Charlie Haden 1937-2014
UPDATE: Haden remembered by some musicians who played with him. Very disappointed to find out that Charlie Haden, the bassist, died yesterday— he’s been one of my musical heroes for a long time, since I […]
DBMITW: wah-wah
Keith Jarrett — Mortgage On My Soul with Paul Motian, and Charlie Haden rocking the wah-wah. We’ll be playing this tune in Seattle this Friday: More after the break: Ornette Coleman — Rock the Clock […]
Favorite albums: Billy Higgins
I guess I could’ve called this Higgins and Haden. These are four records from what is for me the classic phase of Higgins’ career in terms of his sound- he’s got that heavy-ish rivet cymbal […]
Old & New Dreams – 1980 lecture/demonstration
From Warren Senders at Running Gamak, here is audio and a transcript of a clinic given at Harvard by Old and New Dreams (Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell) during their 1980 […]