THE INDEPENDENT JOURNAL OF CREATIVE IMPROVISED MUSIC BARB BFFFFFFFF ANA Billy Cobham The Necks Lester Chambers Gunter Hampel Jack Wright Vision Festival 22 International Jazz News CD Reviews Book Reviews DVD Reviews Obituaries Volume 43 Number 3 July Aug Sept 2017 Haden ad for Cadence.qxp_Layout 1 3/2/17 3:43 PM Page 1 New book about Charlie Haden “Charlie Haden’s story is a classic American saga, and Josef Woodard allows him to tell it elo- quently and in moving detail,” —Francis Davis “Woodard’s treas- ure trove of inter- views with Charlie Haden gives us such an intimate feeling of the jazz giant that we feel like we re sitting in the room with an old friend.... 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