Legendary jazz bassist and composer Charlie Haden died on Friday in Los Angeles at the age of 76.

Watch him discuss his music and politics in this September 1, 2006 Democracy Now! interview.

We speak with legendary bass player, composer and political activist, Charlie Haden. In the late 1950s he played in Ornette Coleman's groundbreaking quartet which changed the shape and sound of jazz.

Democracy Now! 2014-07-11 Friday

• Headlines for July 11, 2014
• "We Should Be Protecting Children": Rep. Gutiérrez Supports Funds for Humanitarian Crisis at Border
• "Worst of the American Spirit": Advocates Decry Anti-Immigrant Protests, Urge Asylum for Children
• Gaza Debate: As Palestinian Deaths Top 100, Who's to Blame for Escalating Violence? What Can Be Done?

Download this show

Chilean hip-hop artist and musician Ana Tijoux joins us in studio to perform some of her songs and talk about the political themes behind them. Tijoux was born in France in 1977 to parents who were jailed and later fled Chile under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. "Hip-hop is the land of the people that don't have a land," she says.

Democracy Now! 2014-07-10 Thursday

• Headlines for July 10, 2014
• "Indonesia is on a Different Path": U.S.-Trained General Defeated After Alleged Plot to Rig Vote
• Spied on for Being Muslim? NSA Targets Named in Snowden Leaks Respond to U.S. Gov't Surveillance

Download this show

Democracy Now! 2014-07-09 Wednesday

• Headlines for July 09, 2014
• WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Responds to Hillary Clinton: Fair U.S. Trial for Snowden "Not Possible"
• Julian Assange on Aiding Snowden, Tiff w/ The Intercept & Whether He'll Ever Leave Embassy Refuge

Download this show

Democracy Now! 2014-07-08 Tuesday

• Headlines for July 08, 2014
• Report from Gaza: Israel Launches New Offensive on Besieged Palestinian Territory in Crisis
• "Incitement Starts at the Top": After Arab Teen's Murder, Israeli Gov't Accused of Fueling Hatred
• "Absolutely Unjustifiable": Aunt of US Teen Decries Brutal Beating by Israeli Forces Caught on Video
• The Kochs' Anti-Civil Rights Roots: New Docs Expose Charles Koch's Ties to John Birch Society

Democracy Now! 2014-07-07 Monday

• Headlines for July 07, 2014
• Exclusive: DN! Goes Inside Assange's Embassy Refuge to Talk WikiLeaks, Snowden and Winning Freedom

Download this show

Democracy Now! 2014-07-04 Friday

• "What to the Slave is 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass' Historic Speech
• July 4 Special: "We Shall Overcome": Remembering Folk Icon, Activist Pete Seeger

Download this show