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"I AM HAUNTED BY WATERS," Norman Maclean wrote at the end of A River Runs Through It, his memoir-novella about growing up in Montana in the early years of this century. The phrase is both appropriate and curious: appropriate because his little story (104 pages) is mostly about standing...
And heard, it might be added, the sound of applause that has hardly faded from that night to this day. Over the past three decades, Haden has been one of the most restless, gifted, intrepid players in all of jazz. You can figure that from the stats: he has played...
Haden, who fantasizes as readily about hanging out with John Garfield as he does about getting down with Charlie Parker, says, "I wanted to pass along the feeling of standing in Philip Marlowe's office looking out at the neon lights blinking off and on in the night." Haunted Heart...
With Charlie Haden, jazz is always contemporary -- relentlessly, implacably -- even when, as on Haunted Heart, he's taking a look back. "It's not about the past, because improvisation is really about being in the moment," he explains. "I'm talking about the past inspiring the present. That's what...
In the end, Harvard is Harvard--the place founded by Puritans and haunted, as H.L. Mencken said, "by the fear that somewhere, someone might be happy."