In the later years of Charlie Haden’s lauded professional life, long after he’d helped reconfigure jazz as part of Ornette Coleman’s group, the bassist, composer, longtime Angeleno and patriarch of ...

There is a truth in the old songs — a truth as deep as bedrock and as timeless as Shakespeare. Take “Wayfaring Stranger,” a song I’ve been humming-singing for a week or so. It’s one of those songs ...