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- Sep 24, 202651 min
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 Ave. loft, NYC. Circa November 1960.Joe Farrell - SaxophoneDolph Castellano - PianoCharlie Haden - BassJoe Oliver - DrumsOther musicians not listed.In this Substack podcast I listen to albums and cassettes from the collection of my father, the late jazz bassist Charlie Haden. If you like what you hear, please consider subscribing. The address is joshhaden.substack.com.Check out Charlie’s record collection.Check out select Charlie Haden Estate items from my eBay store.All words, sounds, & images © 2026 by Josh Haden, except where noted. All rights reserved.Josh Haden's Mémoire is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshhaden.substack.com/subscribe
- Sep 9, 202643 min
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’s wife Ruth Cameron’s CD entitled Roadhouse (2000, Universal Jazz France). The pieces appearing in this podcast episode include:* “Comedy Thief”, written by Josh Haden* “Segment” (Charlie Parker), recorded live by Charlie Haden Quartet West, 22 August 1993, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. Charlie Haden, bass; Alan Broadbent, piano; Joshua Redman, saxophone; Larance Marable, drums.* Four tracks from “Roadhouse Instrumental Mixes”. Recorded in 1999. Original versions can be found on Ruth Cameron, Roadhouse (2000, Universal Jazz France). Produced by Charlie Haden and Ruth Cameron. * “Something Cool” (Bill Barnes)* “One For My Baby” (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)* “My Old Flame” (Arthur Johnstone, Sam Coslow)* “Body and Soul” (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton)Tracks a—c: Charlie Haden, bass; Alan Broadbent, piano; Ralph Moore, saxophone; Larance Marable, drums. Track d: Charlie Haden, bass; Brad Mehldau, piano; Larance Marable, drums.In this Substack podcast I listen to albums and cassettes from the collection of my father, the late jazz bassist Charlie Haden. If you like what you hear, please consider subscribing. The address is joshhaden.substack.com.Check out Charlie’s record collection.Check out select Charlie Haden Estate items from my eBay store.All words, sounds, & images © 2026 by Josh Haden, except where noted. All rights reserved.Josh Haden's Mémoire is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshhaden.substack.com/subscribe
- Aug 24, 20261h 13m
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 and Down By The Cuyahoga host Jim Szabo. Ruth Cameron can also be heard. The live broadcast took place on April 23rd, 2010 on WRUW-FM, Cleveland, Ohio. They were promoting an upcoming Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra performance. The pieces appearing in this podcast episode include:* “The Arraignment”, by Josh Haden* “We Shall Overcome” by the Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra. Recorded 26 April 2009, Melbourne International Jazz Festival.* Charlie Haden interviewed by Jim Szabo. Down By The Cuyahoga. WRUW-FM, Cleveland, Ohio. Broadcast live on 23 April 2010.In this Substack podcast I listen to albums and cassettes from the collection of my father, the late jazz bassist Charlie Haden. If you like what you hear, please consider subscribing. The address is joshhaden.substack.com.Check out Charlie’s record collection.Check out select Charlie Haden Estate items from my eBay store.All words, sounds, & images © 2026 by Josh Haden, except where noted. All rights reserved.Josh Haden's Mémoire is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshhaden.substack.com/subscribe
- Aug 17, 20261h 3m
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 wife, Ruth Cameron, calls out song titles. There is an additional unidentified female voice. The pianist is also unidentified. The recording may have been made in preparation for Ruth Cameron’s debut solo album, First Songs, released in 1998, but I’m not sure. This performance contains songs Charlie never recorded before or after. I couldn’t identify one of the songs.The pieces appearing in this podcast episode include:* “Homer’s Odyssey”, by Josh Haden* “Zig Zag” (Ornette Coleman). From the 1966 Ornette Coleman album The Empty Foxhole. Ornette Coleman: saxophone. Charlie Haden: bass. Denardo Coleman: drums.* “Charlie Haden Cassette”. Cassette recording. Undated. No location listed. Charlie Haden: Bass. Pianist not listed. Tracks: 1. In The Still Of The Night (Cole Porter) 2. Little White Lies (Walter Donaldson) 3. The Night We Called It A Day (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) 4. The Man I Love (George & Ira Gershwin) 5. I Hear A Rhapsody (George Fragos, Jack Baker, Dick Gasparre) 6. Lost April ( Emil Newman, Herbert W. Spencer, Eddie DeLange) 7. Close Your Eyes (Bernice Petkere) 8. The Man I Love (George & Ira Gershwin) 9. Let’s Call It A Day (Lee Wiley) 10. Untitled 11. My Dream Is Yours (Harry Warren, Ralph Blaine) 12. I Wish I Knew (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) 13. As Long As There’s Music (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn)In this Substack podcast I listen to albums and cassettes from the collection of my father, the late jazz bassist Charlie Haden. If you like what you hear, please consider subscribing. The address is joshhaden.substack.com.Check out Charlie’s record collection.Check out select Charlie Haden Estate items from my eBay store.All words, sounds, & images © 2026 by Josh Haden, except where noted. All rights reserved.Josh Haden's Mémoire is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshhaden.substack.com/subscribe
- Aug 3, 202624 min
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 in History©: Plato, from The Republic (375 B.C.; Critical Theory Since Plato, Revised Edition, ed. Hazard Adams, 1992. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc).It is Sunday, August 2nd, 2026. Despite making threats and promises, President Trump has not bombed Iran for the past seven days. The average U.S. gas price has been stable at $4.10 per gallon. In other news, The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Fox television host Jeanine Pirro, dropped Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalism charges against 67 year old David Hearn, admitting to a judge that President Trump’s accusations against the former Olympian were lies. I normally use this forum to post interesting audio discoveries from my father, jazz bassist Charlie Haden’s, archives. I’ve been sorting through what has become box 78. It’s a large translucent plastic storage container with a white lid. Most of the material is sheet music, both commercial, mostly classical music, and original music written my Charlie and others. There are also a lot of knickknacks including an LG Verizon flip phone, a 2008 “Cellboost” phone battery charger still in original packaging, a full container of OraLabs Ice Drops, an all access backstage pass for Neil Young + Promise of the Real Rebel Content Tour 2015, an address book, empty wallets, a pair of sunglasses, business cards, and Charlie’s expired U.S. passport from 1983. One of the music sheets led me to a performance I was never aware of before now. On June 18, 1978, Ornette Coleman and his son Denardo performed the song “Earth Souls” on stage at President Jimmy Carter’s White House Jazz Festival, which took place on the South Lawn of the White House, with the president and first lady in attendance. Can the podcast listener imagine anything like that happening under President Trump? Let’s imagine the President Trump Jazz Festival. Who would play at it? Kid Rock, Vanilla Ice, and a guy who sits on a toilet posting to YouTube. Jimmy Carter invited Ornette Coleman, Max Roach, John Lewis, and McCoy Tyner, and they all accepted.Ornette Coleman and Denardo ColemanWashington, D.C.White House Jazz Festival18 June 1978Ornette Coleman: SaxophoneDenardo Coleman: DrumsTrack listing:* Introduction by President Jimmy Carter* Earth Souls* MetaRecorded for Jazz Alive, hosted by Billy TaylorBroadcast on WAMU-FM, Washington D.C.The entire program can be found here (YouTube).In this Substack podcast I listen to albums and cassettes from the collection of my father, the late jazz bassist Charlie Haden. If you like what you hear, please consider subscribing. The address is joshhaden.substack.com.Check out Charlie’s record collection.Check out select Charlie Haden Estate items from my eBay store.All words & images © 2026 by Josh Haden, except where noted. All rights reserved.Josh Haden's Mémoire is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshhaden.substack.com/subscribe
- Jul 27, 202652 min
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-Intellectualism in American Life (1963; 2020 Library of America edition).It is Sunday, July 26th, 2026. After bombing Iran for 13 straight days, U.S. gas pump prices rose almost 4%. The average price of fuel is $4.11 per gallon as of today, up from the $4.10 average on Friday. It has been two days since U.S. President Trump has bombed Iran. The Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra’s performance in Marciac, France, on August 5, 2004 included material they had recently recorded for the album Not In Our Name. The album was a response to the policies of then president George W. Bush, especially the Iraq War. It was recorded for Radio France and was discovered in two parts, on two separate CD-R discs, in the archive of Charlie Haden. I present part two. Thanks for listening.Charlie Haden Liberation Music OrchestraMarciac, FranceJazz In Marciac Festival5 August 2004Disc Two of TwoCharlie Haden: BassCarla Bley: Piano, ArrangementsTony Malaby: SaxophoneChris Cheek: SaxophoneMiguel Zenón: SaxophoneSeneca Black: TrumpetMichael Rodriguez: TrumpetAhnee Sharon Freeman: French HornCurtis Fowlkes: TromboneJoe Daley: TubaSteve Cardenas: GuitarMatt Wilson: DrumsTrack listing:* Adagio For Strings (Samuel Barber)* We Shall Overcome (Traditional)Recorded by Radio FranceIn this Substack podcast I listen to albums and cassettes from the collection of my father, the late jazz bassist Charlie Haden. If you like what you hear, please consider subscribing. The address is joshhaden.substack.com.Check out Charlie’s record collection.Check out select Charlie Haden Estate items from my eBay store.All words & images © 2026 by Josh Haden, except where noted. All rights reserved.Josh Haden's Mémoire is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshhaden.substack.com/subscribe
- Jul 20, 20261h 30m
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 straight day in a war that was started for no logical reason. The Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra was formed in 1969 as an artistic rebuttal to then U.S. President Nixon’s war against Vietnam, a war, much like the current one, started for dubious reasons and ending in death, destruction, and no answers or solutions, other than monetary gain for the top 1% of the world. If my father had lived to see Donald Trump’s presidency he would have no doubt felt compelled to release another Orchestra album. We only have his past works to speak for him, 1970’s Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, 1983’s The Ballad Of The Fallen, put out during the Ronald Reagan presidency, 1990’s Dream Keeper, during the George H.W. Bush regime, and 2005’s Not in Our Name, during the administration of George W. Bush. 2016’s Time/Life included elements he had been developing with his long time arranger Carla Bley, and was posthumously released as a foreshadow to Trump’s presidency.The Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra’s performance in Marciac, France, on August 5, 2004 included material they had recently recorded for Not In Our Name. It was recorded for Radio France and was discovered in two parts, on two separate CD-R discs, in the archive of Charlie Haden. Thanks for listening.Charlie Haden Liberation Music OrchestraMarciac, FranceJazz In Marciac Festival5 August 2004Disc One of TwoCharlie Haden: BassCarla Bley: Piano, ArrangementsTony Malaby: SaxophoneChris Cheek: SaxophoneMiguel Zenón: SaxophoneSeneca Black: TrumpetMichael Rodriguez: TrumpetAhnee Sharon Freeman: French HornCurtis Fowlkes: TromboneJoe Daley: TubaSteve Cardenas: GuitarMatt Wilson: DrumsTrack listing:* Not In Our Name (Charlie Haden)* This Is Not America (Pat Metheny)* Blue Anthem (Carla Bley)* America The Beautiful (Public Domain)* Amazing Grace (Public Domain)* Goin’ Home (Antonín Leopold Dvořák)* Throughout (Bill Frisell)Recorded by Radio FranceIn this Substack podcast I listen to albums and cassettes from the collection of my father, the late jazz bassist Charlie Haden. If you like what you hear, please consider subscribing. The address is joshhaden.substack.com.Check out Charlie’s record collection.Check out select Charlie Haden Estate items from my eBay store.All words & images © 2026 by Josh Haden, except where noted. All rights reserved.Josh Haden's Mémoire is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshhaden.substack.com/subscribe
- Jan 15, 202619 min
"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 23 April 2001.“I’m not working right now because my wife and I were attacked by a Rottweiler dog,” says Charlie, a fresh cup of coffee beside him. Mr. Salo explains to his listeners, in Finnish, that Charlie and Ruth were walking their dog seven weeks earlier when a Rottweiler attacked them. Charlie had to go to the hospital. He’s recovering with a dog bite to the hand. Charlie said to me, at the time: He and Ruth were walking Jackson at twilight. They saw a man and woman with a big dog walking towards them. The bigger dog pounced on Jackson. Charlie and Ruth tried to pry it away. The canine turned on Charlie. I can’t remember if it was Ruth or Charlie who jumped up onto the roof of a nearby parked car to escape.Everyone, including Jackson, survived. Charlie and Ruth initiated legal action against the dog owners. They settled out of court. The dog owners moved out of the neighborhood. Charlie and Ruth used the money to purchase a house in Westlake Village, over the hill from Malibu.Charlie and Mr. Salo switch to different topics. Charlie begins to speak. Mr. Salo overdubs his Finnish language version: the recently released Charlie Haden Quartet West CD The Art Of The Song, made with vocalists Bill Henderson and Shirley Horn: Charlie prefers the band, vocalist, and string orchestra to be in the same room recording simultaneously, despite the extra expense. The musicians inspire and play off each other, in ways separation and overdubs won’t allow. The result is a product more authentic to the compositions themselves.Charlie talks about Ken Burns’ recently aired multi-part TV documentary Jazz. He talks about Cole Porter and Ravel. He talks about the origins of Quartet West. How he uses the project to bring back songs he loved listening to as a youngster, and to “record” with musicians he was never able to play with, like saxophonist Charlie Parker and vocalist Jo Stafford. He wants to help save classic tunes from being lost to time. He recounts telling Jo Stafford’s husband, legendary bandleader Paul Weston, “What wonderful recordings you made back then. Something magical must have happened in the studio because the interpretations are so deep and beautiful.” To which Mr. Weston replied, “Charlie, to tell you the truth, I don’t even remember. It was just another ordinary workday.”Charlie talks about his 1970 Liberation Music Orchestra album. Songs of the Spanish Civil War. Improvising to the music of the Spanish Republican Army. He says that the recent election of President George W. Bush would neccessitate a new Liberation Music Orchestra album. He talks about his upcoming CD of Cuban music, Nocturne, which would win a Grammy. Charlie says he isn’t upset with any current trends in jazz. “I’m not upset about anything as long as I can play.”I am rather concerned that more people should be brought into contact with deeper art and its deeper values so that our society would become a more sensitive, humble and profound people, where life and beauty are valued. I think our society seems to be going in the exact opposite direction. Music is becoming more and more commercialized all the time. I think today, in my parents’ singing group, it was real back then.Because every time I play quarter notes with a message, we play a million hits from the 1940s. From Glen Miller and Tommy Dorsey to The Pipers and Friends to Sinatra to Jo Stafford to King Cole Trio to Fletcher Henderson, and each of those in common and in their distribution sold millions of records and played to thousands of listeners in their concerts. I’m worried that we’re losing art and its values.*They talk about Charlie Haden Quartet West’s upcoming Finnish concert. Charlie loves Finland. The people are warm. The Finns like beauty and jazz and have always treated him well. The rest of the cassette contains a dub of Cuban guitarist, singer, and revolutionary songwriter Carlos Puebla’s 1976 album Soy Del Pueblo, recorded in Finland.Charlie Haden and Ruth Cameron interviewed by Markku Salo. Finnish Radio Broadcasting Co.First air date: 23 April 2001Recorded to cassette.Broadcast contains excerpts of songs from:Ruth Cameron: “Detour Ahead” (Herb Ellis, John Frigo, Lou Carter) Roadhouse (2000, Verve)Charlie Haden Quartet West (with Bill Henderson, vocalist): “Why Did I Choose You” (Herbert Martin, Michael Leonard) The Art Of The Song (1999, Verve)Charlie Haden Quartet West (with Jo Stafford vocal sample
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