Ornette Coleman - March 9, 1930--June 11, 2015

This news hurts this morning.

Here is Ornette in 2008 playing 'Lonely Woman' from 1959's The Shape of Jazz to Come.




Here's Ben Ratliff's New York Times review of the one time I was lucky enough to see him play at Carnegie Hall in 2006.

And here's the late Charlie Haden talking to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! about being present at the revolution in the 1950s.

Charlie Haden 1937-2014

The great bass player Charlie Haden just passed away today. His new album with Keith Jarrett just came out a couple of weeks ago, but here's a video of the two of them from their earlier home-studio collaboration four years ago.

And here they are from much earlier in their long collaboration, in a trio with the late Paul Motian on drums in 1972.