{"id":5795,"date":"2014-07-19T10:50:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T17:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5795"},"modified":"2014-08-10T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T17:55:07","slug":"charlie-haden-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/19\/charlie-haden-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Haden Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/music\/posts\/la-et-ms-appreciation-charlie-haden-jazz-20140712-story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The LA Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Appreciation: Jazz musician Charlie Haden spoke for beauty<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"trb_bylines_name_author_by\" style=\"color: #666666;\">By\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #ff5443;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-bio-chris-barton-staff.html\" target=\"_blank\">CHRIS BARTON<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Charlie Haden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-53c1bce6\/turbine\/la-charlie-hayden-appreciation-photo-20140712\/750\/16x9\" alt=\"Charlie Haden\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>Charlie Haden founded the Cal Arts jazz program in 1982. His instruction made an impact on generations of jazz artists around the country, including Ravi Coltrane and Ralph Alessi. (Tom Copi)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d probably only been covering jazz for the Los Angeles Times for a year or so when the phone rang at my desk and on the other end was Charlie Haden.<\/p>\n<p>For a half-second, I was terrified. Was this how I was going to find out that the tiny voice in my head, the one that plagues so many writers, was right all along? Was Charlie Haden, an unquestionable music giant who contributed to a skyscraper\u2019s worth of immortal jazz recordings, the one who finally figured out I was a fraud?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that wasn\u2019t the nature of this phone call &#8212; or, for that matter, Charlie Haden. Instead, we talked about music. He spoke with a joyful, bebop-like cadence that pushed against his recognizably thin voice &#8212; a wispy reminder of the bulbar polio that afflicted him as a child and eventually claimed his life Friday at age 76.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/music\/posts\/la-et-ms-appreciation-charlie-haden-jazz-20140712-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at LATimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The LA Times Appreciation: Jazz musician Charlie Haden spoke for beauty By\u00a0CHRIS BARTON Charlie Haden founded the Cal Arts jazz program in 1982. His instruction made an impact on generations of jazz artists around the country, including Ravi Coltrane and Ralph Alessi. (Tom Copi) I\u2019d probably only been covering jazz for the Los Angeles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}