The great Jazz musician and composer Charlie Haden (b. 1937) has - TopicsExpress



          

The great Jazz musician and composer Charlie Haden (b. 1937) has passed away. First known as the bassist in saxophonist Ornette Colemans groundbreaking avant-garde Jazz group in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Hadens music bridged many genres. His group Liberation Music Orchestra was explicitly political and highly influential. Haden was even arrested in Portugal in the early 1970s for dedicating his performance there to the liberation movements against Portuguese colonialism in Angola and Mozambique. Explore his vast body of work and you will understand what we have lost today. Charlie Haden, presente!
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 00:53:30 +0000

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