Geeky glasses and a laid-back nature, Haden is the most celebrated jazz bassist. He hooked up with Ornette Coleman in the 60's, formed the Liberation Music Orchestra and today branches out into folk and gospel. Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny and others play and unwind in elegies.

Friday 30th / 18:30 / Aribau Club 2
Saturday 31st / 20:45 / Aribau Club 2

Despite his nerdy glasses, shiny shirts and easygoing nature, Haden isn't a retired maths teacher; he is in fact the most legendary jazz bassist. Rambling Boy reveals how this country boy escaped from rural Missouri to earn his crown in the world of jazz; and in the end, everyone got it/it was all understood. He carried it in his blood. Through monosyllabic, chapters ("Bass", "Free"), juicy archive footage and declarations by Haden and his nearest and dearest, we see the child of a musical family yodelling on the radio; and the revelation of jazz, in a concert by Charlie Parker and Billie Holliday; and his entrance in that world - when he saw a gentleman with a plastic sax, improvising on a stage for the first time: Ornette Coleman. Haden participated in an insubstitutable way in all these legendary albums (Look at him in The shape of jazz to come, making out that the thing wasn't his.) From the New World of Free Jazz of NY in the ‘60s, Haden would go on to form the influential Liberation Music Orchestra in the 70's, and today decades later, Haden closes the circle. Rambling Boy is articulated around the return to his roots, daring to go back to folk and gospel. Surrounding him, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, Carla Bley, Roseanne Cash and many others play and admire the melodic and unforeseeable, yet methodical bass of this living genius.