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WCLK Pick Of The Week Keith Jarrett Charlie Haden Last Dance

Charlie Haden was one of the enduring figures in straight ahead jazz in the modern era, not only for the music he forged with such collaborators as Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett, but also for the fact that he did not let the after effects of polio when he was 15 stand in his way of creating melodic, memorable sounds out of his famed double bass.

Haden passed away July 11 at age 76 from the effects of post polio syndrome.  His final project with long-time collaborator Keith Jarrett is Last Dance, on ECM. On this release, Jarrett and Haden broaden the scope of their duo project to showcase jazz classics like Thelonious Monk's Round Midnight and Bud Powell's spritely Dance Of The Infidels. Love songs, however, are to the fore in this selection, with tender versions of My Old Flame, My Ship, It Might As Well Be Spring, Everything Happens To Me, and Every Time We Say Goodbye as well as alternate takes of Where Can I Go Without You and Goodbye, every bit as touching as the Jasmine renditions.

WCLK Program Director Aaron Cohen is featuring Last Dance at various times late night and overnight on the station.