Josh Haden's Mémoire Podcast

Josh Haden's Mémoire Podcast episode 81: Natural Intelligence

The pieces appearing in this podcast episode include: * “Natural Intelligence”, written by Josh Haden * “Olio” (Sonny Rollins), recorded live at W. Eugene Smith’s 6th A

Josh Haden's Mémoire Podcast episode 80: Charlie Haden & Ruth Cameron Roadhouse Instrumental Mixes

In Box 77 of the Charlie Haden archive is a CD-R labeled “Roadhouse Instrumental Mixes”. The sound files on the disc are instrumental versions of tracks found on Charlie’

Josh Haden's Mémoire Podcast episode 79: Charlie Haden Interview 2010

In Box 77 of the Charlie Haden Archive is a CD-R titled “Charlie Haden and Ruth Cameron visit WRUW-FM”. The material on the CD-R consists of an interview between Charlie

Josh Haden's Mémoire Podcast episode 78: Charlie Haden Cassette

In Box 77 of the Charlie Haden Archive is an undated CD-R titled “Charlie Haden Cassette”. The material features Charlie playing bass in duo with a pianist. Charlie’s wif

Ornette Coleman Plays For The White House

Opening song: “A Love Like This” (Ned Washington, Victor Young), from Charlie Haden Quartet West’s Sophisticated Ladies (2010, Universal France). Today’s Great Reading i

Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, Marciac, France, 5 August 2004, Disc 2

Opening song: '“Focus On Sanity”, from Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz To Come (1959, Atlantic). Today’s Great Reading in History©: Richard Hofstadter, from Anti-Int

Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, Marciac, France, 5 August 2004

Opening song: Song For Che, from Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra (1970). It is Sunday, July 19, 2026. U.S. President Trump has bombed Iran for the eighth straig

"I Was Attacked By A Rottweiler Dog!"

Bassist Charlie Haden and manager & wife Ruth Cameron spoke to Finnish Radio Broadcasting’s jazz host Markku Salo by telephone, from their Malibu home. The air date was 2

Duke Ellington, Fargo, North Dakota, 7 November 1940 (Complete) Disc Two

The complete recording of Duke Ellington Orchestra’s 7 November 1940 concert at the Crystal Ballroom in Fargo, North Dakota continues on disc two. The music was recorded

Duke Ellington, Fargo, North Dakota, 7 November 1940 (Complete) Disc One

IN MY MIND, the link to Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra (1970) is Charles Mingus’ 1964 LP Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus. But it starts with this recordi

Charlie Haden Quartet West "The Folks Who Live On The Hill" (w/out vocals)

Charlie Haden Quartet West’s The Art Of The Song was released in 1999 on Verve France. It was the Quartet’s sixth album and the first to feature contemporary vocalists. P

Commercial Music

Charlie was occasionally asked to contribute original cues to TV shows. He reluctantly played electric bass on some commercials in the early 1970s. I never knew that he p

Jeri Southern Live

I’ve written about Charlie and Ruth’s friendship with jazz vocalist Jeri Southern. This CD-R includes twelve circa 1950s live tracks. Jeri sings and plays piano, accompan

Armando Manzanero y Sus Amigos

Armando Manzanero is “widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America.” A pianist and

Midnight Magic

I used to regularly ransack the bargain world music CD bins at Amoeba Records in Hollywood. This was in the mid-2000s, when Amoeba was on Sunset Blvd. at Cahuenga. I base

VR & The Café Beaujolais Band

Bassist Putter Smith is one of Charlie’s oldest friends. They met after Charlie arrived in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. Starting in the 1980s, Charlie would call Putter

Charlie Haden and Fred Hersch "Speak Low"

In 1985, music visionary Hal Willner produced an star-studded tribute to the composer Kurt Weill. Over two dozen artists from across the tonal spectrum were assembled to

Paul Robeson Sings

There are many unlabeled cassettes in the “Box Of Important CD’s” [sic]. Here’s the audio from one of them. Bass-baritone and American hero Paul Robeson singing “L’amour

Ornette Coleman Profile by Dean Olsher of All Things Considered

In 1997 Ornette was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. National Public Radio devoted a 10-minute piece on the, to them, somewhat incongruous achievement

Live On Hope Street

Live On Hope Street was a music, culture, and news program that aired on Los Angeles radio station KUSC-FM in 1996. On 14 June of that year, host Bonnie Grice interviewed