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PostSat Jul 12, 2014 12:54 pm 
Charlie Haden, Influential Jazz Bassist, Is Dead at 76
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Charlie Haden, one of the most influential bassists in the history of jazz, died on Friday in Los Angeles. He was 76. ... Mr. Haden had a deep, grounded way with the bass and a warm, softly resonant tone. His approach to harmony was deeply intuitive and sometimes deceivingly simple, always with a firm relationship to a piece’s chordal root. Along with his calm, unbudging rhythmic aplomb, this served him well in settings ranging from the ragged and intrepid to the satiny and refined. His own acclaimed bands, like the Liberation Music Orchestra and Quartet West, handily covered that stylistic expanse. His jazz career crossed seven decades, with barely a moment of obscurity. He was in his early 20s in 1959, when, as a member of the Ornette Coleman Quartet, he helped set off a seismic disruption in jazz. Mr. Coleman, an alto saxophonist, had been developing a brazen, polytonal approach to improvisation — it would come to be known as free jazz — and in his band, which had no chordal instrument, Mr. Haden served as anchor and pivot. Mr. Coleman’s clarion cry, often entangled with that of the trumpeter Don Cherry, grabbed much of the attention, but Mr. Haden’s playing was just as crucial, for its feeling of unerring rightness in the face of an apparent ruckus. ... In addition to Mr. Coleman, with whom he continued to play intermittently in the 1960s and ’70s (and later, in the occasional reunion), Mr. Haden worked with many principal figures of an emerging jazz avant-garde. For a decade starting in 1967, he was a member of a celebrated quartet led by the pianist Keith Jarrett, with Dewey Redman on saxophone and Paul Motian on drums. ... Mr. Haden also recorded albums with strings, including “American Dreams” (2002), and albums of duets with sensitive partners, notably the pianists Hank Jones and Kenny Barron and the guitarist Pat Metheny. The duo album he made with Mr. Metheny, “Beyond the Missouri Sky,” won Mr. Haden his first Grammy Award in 1997. His two others were for albums of reimagined Latin American standards, “Nocturne” and “Land of the Sun.” Both featured the Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba. ...

falling leaves / hide the path / so quietly ~John Bailey, "Autumn," a haiku year, 2001, as posted on oldgreypoet.com
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PostSat Jul 12, 2014 12:58 pm 
No no no no no bawl.gif He was a beautiful soul

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