Charlie Haden RIP
I saw the Music Liberation Orchestra play a few days after Obama was elected in 2008, and it was about the most fun I’ve ever had seeing music live.
This is a great story.
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I used to play Charlie’s records during my college radio shows when I was doing jazz programs, and sometimes on the alternative shows too. Not just a jazz great, but a true American progressive also.
Rest in peace, Charlie Haden, or, if there is an afterlife, jam the nights away in beautiful noise.
It’s 0019 and you old duffers have called it. On a Friday!
Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny, “The Moon Song.”
Sheena is a punk rocker
Peggy Noonan’s border nonsense: Her bizarre view of how “normal people” experience this crisis
@raven: yeah, her columns are a scream for an intervention at this point. The kind thing to do would be bundling her off for a long detox and rehab.
@raven: some people note that these are kids and so we should have a bit of compassion, noting many biblical injunctions against harming children and strangers. Normal people wonder why we aren’t doing more to blow their legs off, sending the message once and for all that we mean business.
tommy ramone died.
@raven: Fortunately the link wasn’t to her column. Peggy would be doing herself a favor, if she would just outsource her work to Sarah Palin.
@raven: Thanx. A lot. I was happily deluded into thinking she was dead. Now I am forced to acknowledge that I still share my planet with her.
@tybee: I can’t believe they’re all gone. Goddammit.
Goodbye Charlie…… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN_9R8fFtwY
Sadness. One of my favorite bass players ever.
Indeed, a great story.