Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra featuring Carla Bley
Modern Creative
Miguel Zenon (alto sax); Chris Cheek, Tony Malaby (tenor sax); Earl Gardner, Michael Rodriguez (trumpet); Curtis Fowlkes (trombone); Ahnee Sharon Freeman (french horn); Joe Daley (tuba); Steve Cardenas (guitar); Carla Bley (piano); Charlie Haden (bass); Matt Wilson (drums).
Sun 11 July 2004 16:15 - 17:30 Jan Steen Hall
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If Ray Brown was the absolute star of the older generation of contrabassists, then Charlie Haden is the only post-bebop bassist with the same untouchable reputation. His key position in the band of the iconoclastic alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman can’t be stressed enough. After that the world was at his feet and could he be found in almost any formation that had something to contribute to jazz. In 1969 he founded the Liberation Music Orchestra (LMO) and wrote and composed a lot of pieces for the band. Carla Bley, too, did many arrangements and her wondrous world of sounds would shape the music as much as Haden’s deep, dark brown bass sound. Later – in 1973 with The Ballad of the Fallen and in 1990 with Dreamkeeper – the orchestra would go into the studio twice to perform miracles with their protest songs and battle hymns. A concert by the New LMO always is an event to experience: you never know how long you’ll have to wait for a new incarnation.
