A fine golf swing clarinetist, an altoist whose sound was influenced by Johnny Hodges, an excellent soprano saxophonist, and a spirited blues vocalist, Woody Herman’s greatest significance to jazz was mainly because the first choice of an extended type of big rings. He always urged young skill and, a lot …

As an associate of saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s early rings, bassist Charlie Haden became referred to as among free jazz’s founding fathers. Haden hardly ever settled into some of jazz’s many stylistic niche categories, nevertheless. Certainly he performed his talk about of dissonant music — within the ’60 and ’70s, being …