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Theodorakis Side One

Mikis Theodorakis (1925-2021) was a Greek composer, musician, vocalist, activist and politician. The right-wing military junta that overthrew the Greek government in 1967 banned his songs. He was arrested and spent time in prison, where he was tortured. After returning from exile, he rejoined the H…

Milcho Leviev + Charlie Haden: First Meeting (1986, Pan Music) Side One

Milcho Leviev was born in Bulgaria in 1937. Same year as my father. He was appointed as the conductor of the Bulgarian National Radio Big Band in 1962. He moved to Los Angeles in 1970. He worked with Don Ellis, Billy Cobham, Lainie Kazan, and Art Pepper. Charlie had lots of respect for his piano pl…

Concierto Con Tambor Y Metralla, Side Two

Milt Wolff grew up with my maternal grandfather, George. They belonged to the Young Communist League in Brooklyn and Queens, alongside children of many other neighborhood immigrant families. At the age of 22, in 1937, Milt travelled by ship to Spain where he volunteered in the struggle against the…

Concierto Con Tambor Y Metralla, Side One

A recalcitrant record label. The estate of jazz bassist Charlie Haden. A major U.S. bank unfamiliar with foreign tax law. Music royalties. Combine them and the result is a delay in Josh Haden’s Memoire posts. My goal is to publish every three or four days. If you detect a slowdown, it’s probably b…

Eritrean Revolutionary Songs N. 5 (Side Two)

Eritrea lies along the Red Sea. It has an archipelago. It’s half-circled by Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Sudan. The area has been home to humans for a million years. There are records of trade with ancient Egypt. Aksum, a kingdom which existed for almost a millennium until 940 A.D., erected the largest …

Eritrean Revolutionary Songs N. 5 (Side One)

My father collected protest music from all over the world. There are LPs from the Spanish Civil War. Songs of resistance from Chile, El Salvador, Peru, Uruguay, Honduras, Nicaragua, Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, and Cuba. Brazil. Puerto Rico. Haiti. South Africa, Angola, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mozamb…

A Tribute to Jim Haden, Charlie's Bass-Playing Big Brother, Part 2

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit joshhaden.substack.com On the evening of 29 March 1984, Mark Crawford, the host of Reno, Nevada public radio station KUNR’s Just Jazz, aired a special program honoring Reno bassist Jim Haden, who had died of a heart attack four days earl…

Charlie Haden Quartet West / Israel Festival / Jerusalem 1995 / 1st Set

I opened the top drawer of the oak dresser on my immediate left. It was filled with cassette tapes. Laying on top was one titled “Charlie Haden Quartet West / Jerusalem 1995”. I put it in the canvas bag. Ruth died on 11 September 2021. Probate took over a year to complete. The dusty garage was fill…

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 WRU…

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:…