Event Listing - Music
Sun Nov 2

26th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival

Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra with Carla Bley


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$25 - $65
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Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
cross street: McAllister
district: Civic Center

Sun Nov 2 (7:00pm)

Description
There could not be a better time for the re-emergence of Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra. A seminal figure since anchoring Ornette Coleman’s revolutionary 1950s quartet, bassist Haden fomented his own revolution on his debut album as a leader, the 1969 anti-war session Liberation Music Orchestra. The new generation of advanced improvisers assembled for the fourth LMO album, Not In Our Name, continues the group’s partnership with ingenious arranger Carla Bley, who appears tonight. Inspired by Spanish Civil War songs, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra emerged in 1969 in protest to the Vietnam War. The group has reconvened as times demand: struggles in Central America, apartheid and, more recently, the Iraq war.

Pre-concert talk with Charlie Haden