Neben den beiden Alben, die Duos mit verschiedenen Musikern enthalten (ich muss gleich schauen, ob ich „Golden Number“ auftreiben kann! „Closeness“ kenne ich schon lange), nahm Haden in der Zeit, genauer am 30. Januar 1977, auch ein ganzes Album mit Ornette Coleman auf, „Soapsuds“.
Ornette in seinen tollen stänkerischen Liner Notes:
The music on this record has to me, when I listen as a listener, a very simple message: these performers are playing for the sake of making music for people to enjoy their own concept of hearing. The titles are used as a story intro. Melody is the only sound matter we all use like a language to be able to describe what one heard. Folk or race music, such as African, Chinese, Scottish, etc., rarely becomes a pop hit unless it’s instrumental. We have yet to allow any language to be a part of the word value of sound for all countries to use as a musical pleasure. […] Once Bud Powell, Cecil Taylor and I played, music into the early morning, Bud and Cecil exchanging places at the keyboard at will; playing music for music’s sake, as I have with Eubie Blake, Sonny Rollins, Clifford Brown, Scott LaFaro, Eric Dolphy, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler. When I met Charlie Parker I was playing and writing things I play today. But I only wanted to play Pakrer music when I went out to play because his music was and is very important for one who wants to play saxophone. When I played my music, my saxophone playing was not liked. […] Those who will someday find their own musical voice in sound remember: music, like all expressions of art removes us from watching to doing. There are only two of us playing on this record, Charlie Haden and Ornette Coleman. Those who haven’t heard Charlie or his music gifts, don’t waint any longer.
Haden hat einen knappen und klaren Text beigesteuert, der zu Ornettes Gedanken einen Kontrapunkt bietet – das Album sei für ihn „a dream come true“ – einer, den er seit dem ersten Duo-Spiel daheim bei Ornette, nach einem Jam im Hillcrest 1957 geträumt habe.
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"Don't play what the public want. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doin' -- even if it take them fifteen, twenty years." (Thelonious Monk) | Meine Sendungen auf Radio StoneFM: gypsy goes jazz, #164: Neuheiten aus dem Archiv, 10.6., 22:00 | Slow Drive to South Africa, #8: tba | No Problem Saloon, #30: tba