<div dir="ltr">A new posting - <br><h3 class="" itemprop="name"><a href="http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/2014/07/viva-charlie-haden.html">Viva Charlie Haden!</a></h3><h3 style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">
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<font size="4"><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif">Charlie
Haden has died.</span></span></font></div>
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<span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">The
liberals have Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder (You can tell
liberal political music because its fuzzy message is always easily
expropriated by corporate commercialism and even conservatives.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">But
the authentic left had Charlie Haden. A man who defined earnestness,
Haden was a key figure in the last wave of innovation in the African
American-inspired art form, jazz. Concurrent with political stirrings
in the 1960s, a musically radical group of musicians pushed
improvisational music to its limits. Liberating times produced
liberating music. Charlie Haden was an important part of it. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">On
the economic side, Haden was a charter member of the Jazz Composers'
Orchestra Association, a group dedicated to overturning the greed of
club owners and record companies. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">On the political side, he founded
the Liberation Music Orchestra</span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">,</span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">
a project paying homage to leftist music</span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">,</span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">
ranging from the Spanish Civil War to the South African Liberation
movement. A sampling of the LMO can be found </span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqT7LhlVr8A" target="_blank"><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><u>here</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">.</span></span></span></span></div>

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<span style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">Haden's
unassuming manner belied an iron resolve. In 1971, despite warnings,
he publicly performed his </span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><i>Song
for Che</i></span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">
in fascist Portugal, dedicating it to the liberation movements in the
Portuguese colonies. Caetano's political police were not amused,
detaining him until US officials intervened. A performance of </span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><i>Song
for Che</i></span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">
can be heard </span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmoj_vdk_5U" target="_blank"><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><u>here</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">.</span></span></span></span></div>

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<span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">Charlie
Haden, paraphrasing Brecht, was essential....  <font color="#cc0000"><i><b>TO READ MORE, GO TO </b></i><i><b><a href="http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/">http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/</a></b></i></font><br></span></span></span></div>
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