from National Public Radio:
Remembering Saxophonists Hadley Caliman And Noah Howard
Two powerful saxophonists whose talents merited wider recognition, but who spent much of their lives away from jazz’s major hubs, have died.
News came yesterday from the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra that tenor saxophonist Hadley Caliman had died at age 78, after a struggle with liver cancer. Caliman was a tenor player in the post-bop tradition; he recorded with jazzmen like Bobby Hutcherson and Freddie Hubbard, but also with genre-crossing musicians like Carlos Santana. He taught at Seattle’s Cornish College for over 20 years, and was a beloved elder statesman in the Seattle community.
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from The Oregonian:
Seattle saxophonist Hadley Caliman, a pillar of the Northwest jazz scene, dies at 78
For cities only a few hours’ drive apart, the cross talk between the jazz scenes of Portland and Seattle always has seemed quieter than it should be. Over the past couple of decades, nothing served as a potent reminder of that more than the occasional – yet all too rare – Portland appearances by Hadley Caliman, a superb saxophonist and a revered pillar of the Northwest jazz community … Caliman’s Portland performances mostly were special occasions – the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival in 2003 and 2004, the Cathedral Park Jazz Festival in 1992 and ’93. He was favored especially by drummer/bandleaders Ron Steen, who got him to play events such as an Oregon Public Broadcasting taping for the mid-’90s show “Coffee Tea and OPB,” and Akbar DePriest, who featured him on the 1997 album “Live on the Willamette.”
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Earshot Jazz has posted a memorial on their website:
In 2008, Caliman received two Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Awards when his quartet and quintet won the Acoustic Jazz Ensemble of the Year award, and his performance at the 2008 Ballard Jazz Festival won the Concert of the Year award.
In a 2004 interview with Earshot, Caliman’s wife Linda said it best: “He is the sweetest person…In all that he has been through in all of his life, he is untainted. It’s a spirit. The spirit has remained intact. He’s not been jaded or been cynical by all that he has seen.” At last year’s Earshot Jazz Festival, Caliman’s career was celebrated in a special concert at the Seattle Art Museum in which he also performed.
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