{"id":4798,"date":"2015-01-16T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2015-01-16T17:36:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:36:14","slug":"message-at-charlie-haden-memorial-hey-man-were-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/16\/message-at-charlie-haden-memorial-hey-man-were-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Message At Charlie Haden Memorial: \u201cHey, Man\u2014We\u2019re Family\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carla Bley (at piano) led The Liberation Music Orchestra to end a memorial concert for its founder, bassist Charlie Haden\/photo: Jacob Blickenstaff<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nMinutes into Tuesday night\u2019s memorial concert for Charlie Haden <\/strong>at Manhattan\u2019s Town Hall, on a screen above the stage, came the first of several excerpts from a documentary, \u201cRambling Boy,\u201d that punctuated three-plus hours of music and testimonials. Here was Haden as a boy, no more than two or three, singing and yodeling with confident joy.
\nLong before Haden helped ignite a jazz revolution while in his early twenties, as bassist in saxophonist Ornette Coleman\u2019s quartet; before he spent a decade in another landmark band led by pianist Keith Jarrett; before he formed his Liberation Music Orchestra, blending avant-garde, big-band jazz and Latin American folk traditions with bold political statements; before his Quartet West, which played noir ballads inspired by Raymond Chandler novels and movie themes; before memorable duet recordings of spirituals and hymns, and decades of collaborations with musicians that spanned three generations of jazz\u2019s finest players and nearly all its idioms, Haden was \u201cCowboy Charlie,\u201d a precocious toddler singing his way into listeners hearts on his parents\u2019 radio show.
\nThe evening\u2019s performances, mostly of Haden\u2019s compositions, made a case for his body of work as one that will endure and deserves further interpretation. The spoken testimonials, along with the documentary clips, more or less traced the path and framed the influence of one remarkable musician. Yet what came across most powerfully was how Haden, through his music, presence, and personality, built bonds that seemed familial and coursed through actual families. And we received one after another example, through music and words, of how Haden led others to reveal themselves in moving and even brave ways. Get my full story here<\/a>, along with a slideshow of images.<\/strong>
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Siblings Petra, Rachel, Josh, and Tanya Haden, accompanied by guitarist Bill Frisell, singing \u201cVoice From on High\u201d \/ Credit Jacob Blickenstaff<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minutes into Tuesday night\u2019s memorial concert for Charlie Haden at Manhattan\u2019s Town Hall, on a screen above the stage, came the first of several excerpts from a documentary, \u201cRambling Boy,\u201d that punctuated three-plus hours of music and testimonials. Here was Haden as a boy, no more than two or three, singing and yodeling with confident … <\/p>\n

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