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Charlie Haden RIP

by DougJ|  July 12, 20143:05 am| 14 Comments

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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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  1. 1.

    JGabriel

    July 12, 2014 at 3:16 am

    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.

  2. 2.

    Liquid

    July 12, 2014 at 3:19 am

    It’s 0019 and you old duffers have called it. On a Friday!

  3. 3.

    Steeplejack

    July 12, 2014 at 3:26 am

    Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny, “The Moon Song.”

  4. 4.

    MikeJ

    July 12, 2014 at 3:51 am

    Sheena is a punk rocker

  5. 5.

    raven

    July 12, 2014 at 5:45 am

    Peggy Noonan’s border nonsense: Her bizarre view of how “normal people” experience this crisis

  6. 6.

    satby

    July 12, 2014 at 6:44 am

    @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.

  7. 7.

    Suffern ACE

    July 12, 2014 at 6:45 am

    @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.

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    tybee

    July 12, 2014 at 6:53 am

    tommy ramone died.

  9. 9.

    JPL

    July 12, 2014 at 6:54 am

    @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.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    July 12, 2014 at 7:07 am

    @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.

  11. 11.

    Wally Ballou

    July 12, 2014 at 8:03 am

    @tybee: I can’t believe they’re all gone. Goddammit.

  12. 12.

    AndyG

    July 12, 2014 at 11:52 am

    Goodbye Charlie…… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN_9R8fFtwY

  13. 13.

    Miss Bianca

    July 12, 2014 at 12:05 pm

    Sadness. One of my favorite bass players ever.

  14. 14.

    Denali

    July 12, 2014 at 2:20 pm

    Indeed, a great story.

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