Sad news for those of us who loved/still love “Jazz with a Future”….and the precious few musicians with the courage to reach for it, much less actually ARRIVE there, as Charlie Haden did on so many occasions.
P.S. This Fred Kaplan is NOT the academic and Nineties Gore Vidal biographer with whom Gore had a major falling out, thereby prompting Gore to pre-emptively compose his own pair of memoirs! The Fred Kaplan below writes for both Slate AND Stereophile, and has published an interesting-sounding book about The Year 1959.
– Tom Kipp
RIP, Charlie Haden
The jazz great loved a gorgeous song.
By Fred Kaplan
