Charlie Haden
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Charles Edward Haden is an American jazz
musician. He is a double bass
ist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman
. Haden is also known for his signature lyrical bass lines.
, and raised in a musical family, which often performed together on the radio playing country music
and American folk songs. Haden made his professional debut as a singer when he was two years old, and continued singing with his family until he contracted a mild form of polio when he was 15. The polio damaged his throat muscles and vocal cords, and as a result, Haden was unable to control his pitch while singing. A few years before contracting polio, Haden had become interested in jazz, and began playing his older brother's double bass. Eventually he set his sights on Los Angeles
, and to save money for the trip took a job as house bassist for ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee
in Springfield, Missouri.
Haden moved to Los Angeles in 1957, and quickly began playing professionally, including stints with pianist Hampton Hawes
and saxophonist Art Pepper
. He began playing with Ornette Coleman
in the late 1950s. Their first record together is The Shape of Jazz to Come
. Haden's counterpoint to Coleman was full of his Ozarkian folk song. This folk element related naturally to Coleman's microtonal Texas blues. In the rhythm section, Haden and Billy Higgins both could play with a classic jazz feel, but they also could experiment. On "Lonely Woman", the first track on The Shape of Jazz to Come
(1959), Haden does not not keep time but inhabits a slow dirge while Higgins plays at twice or three times the tempo.
Besides his association with Ornette Coleman, Haden was also a member of Keith Jarrett
's trio and 'American quartet' from 1967 to 1976 with Paul Motian
and Dewey Redman
. He played in the collective Old and New Dreams
.
He went on to lead the Liberation Music Orchestra
in the 1970s. Largely arranged by Carla Bley
, their music was very experimental, exploring the realms of free jazz and political music at the same time; the first album focused specifically on the Spanish Civil War
. The LMO has had a shifting membership comprising a "who's who" of jazz instrumentalists. Through Bley's arranging, they have concentrated on a wide palette of brass instruments, including tuba, French horn, and trombone, in addition to the more standard trumpet and reed section. The LMO's 1982 album The Ballad of the Fallen commented again on the Spanish Civil War as well as the political instability and United States involvement in Latin America. In 1990, the orchestra returned with Dream Keeper, a more heterogeneous album which drew on American gospel music
and South African music to comment on politics in Latin America
and apartheid in South Africa
. The album featured choral contributions from the Oakland Youth Chorus.
In 1971, while on tour with the Ornette Coleman
Quartet in Portugal
(at the time under a fascist dictatorship), Haden decided to dedicate a performance of his "Song for Che
" to the anticolonialist revolutionaries in the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique
, Angola
, and Guinea-Bissau
. The following day, he was detained at the Lisbon airport, jailed, and interrogated by the DGS (the Portuguese secret police). He was promptly released the same day after the intervention of the American cultural attaché, though he was later interviewed by the FBI in the United States about his choice of dedication.
Thematic exploration of genres not typically considered to be jazz standards became one of the signature approaches of the Charlie Haden Quartet West. Started in 1987, the Quartet consists of Ernie Watts
on sax, Alan Broadbent
on piano, and Larance Marable
on drums. Quartet West's albums feature lush, romantic arrangements by Broadbent, often with strings, of music from the 1930s and 1940s, often music associated with films of that period.
Haden has also been active over the years working in duets with pianists such as Hank Jones
, Kenny Barron
, and Denny Zeitlin
. He has explored spiritual hymns with Jones, American folk music in American Hymns, and Cuban folk music in Nocturne
. A brief collaboration with Joe Henderson
and Al Foster
, players not normally associated with Haden or his immediate circle, show how distinctive Haden's voice is in a pure, hard-driving jazz context.
In 1989, Haden was featured at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and performed in concert every night of the festival, with different combos and bands. Each of these events was recorded, and most have been released in the series The Montreal Tapes.
In late 1996, he collaborated with Pat Metheny
on the album Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)
, exploring the music that influenced them in their childhood experiences in Missouri with what they call "contemporary impressionistic americana".
Haden reconvened Liberation Music Orchestra in 2005, with largely new members, for the album Not In Our Name, released on Verve Records
. The album dealt primarily with the contemporary political situation in the United States.
Haden's most recent release, Rambling Boy, features several members of his immediate family, along with Béla Fleck
, Pat Metheny
, Elvis Costello
, and others. The album, released on 23 September 2008, hearkens back to his days of playing Americana
and bluegrass music with his parents on their radio show. A concert tour with Quartet West (with a new drummer) was scheduled for the late summer.
is a bass guitarist and singer. He recorded with 1980s punk band Trecherous Jaywalkers (who recorded for SST Records
), and is presently a member of Spain
. His triplet daughters, Petra
, Tanya
and Rachel Haden
, are all musicians. Petra and Rachel were in that dog.
; Petra was a member of progressive folk group The Decemberists
, Rachel played in the rock band The Rentals
, and Tanya is married to actor Jack Black
.
With the Liberation Music Orchestra
With Old and New Dreams
With Kenny Barron
With Carla Bley
With Paul Bley
With Ornette Coleman
With Don Cherry
With Alice Coltrane
With Dizzy Gillespie
With Keith Jarrett
With Lee Konitz
With Joe Lovano
With John McLaughlin
With Helen Merrill
With Mingus Dynasty
With Paul Motian
With Yoko Ono
With Roswell Rudd
With Pee Wee Russell
and Henry "Red" Allen
With Dino Saluzzi
With Archie Shepp
With Wadada Leo Smith
With Ringo Starr
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
musician. He is a double bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
ist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s....
. Haden is also known for his signature lyrical bass lines.
Biography
Haden was born in Shenandoah, IowaShenandoah, Iowa
Shenandoah is a city in Fremont and Page Counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 5,546 at the 2000 census.Once referred to as the "seed and nursery center of the world," Shenandoah is the home to Earl May Seed Company and the radio station KMA, founded by Earl May...
, and raised in a musical family, which often performed together on the radio playing country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
and American folk songs. Haden made his professional debut as a singer when he was two years old, and continued singing with his family until he contracted a mild form of polio when he was 15. The polio damaged his throat muscles and vocal cords, and as a result, Haden was unable to control his pitch while singing. A few years before contracting polio, Haden had become interested in jazz, and began playing his older brother's double bass. Eventually he set his sights on Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, and to save money for the trip took a job as house bassist for ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee
Ozark Jubilee
Ozark Jubilee is the first U.S. network television program to feature country music's top stars, and was the centerpiece of a strategy for Springfield, Missouri to challenge Nashville, Tennessee as America's country music capital...
in Springfield, Missouri.
Haden moved to Los Angeles in 1957, and quickly began playing professionally, including stints with pianist Hampton Hawes
Hampton Hawes
Hampton Hawes was an American bebop and hard-bop jazz pianist, recognized as one of the finest and most influential of the 1950s.-Biography:...
and saxophonist Art Pepper
Art Pepper
Art Pepper , born Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr., was an American alto saxophonist and clarinetist.About Pepper, Scott Yanow of All Music stated, "In the 1950s he was one of the few altoists that was able to develop his own sound despite the dominant influence of Charlie Parker" and: "When Art Pepper...
. He began playing with Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s....
in the late 1950s. Their first record together is The Shape of Jazz to Come
The Shape of Jazz to Come
The Shape of Jazz to Come is an influential album by Ornette Coleman. It was his debut album for Atlantic Records who released it in late 1959....
. Haden's counterpoint to Coleman was full of his Ozarkian folk song. This folk element related naturally to Coleman's microtonal Texas blues. In the rhythm section, Haden and Billy Higgins both could play with a classic jazz feel, but they also could experiment. On "Lonely Woman", the first track on The Shape of Jazz to Come
The Shape of Jazz to Come
The Shape of Jazz to Come is an influential album by Ornette Coleman. It was his debut album for Atlantic Records who released it in late 1959....
(1959), Haden does not not keep time but inhabits a slow dirge while Higgins plays at twice or three times the tempo.
Besides his association with Ornette Coleman, Haden was also a member of Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as...
's trio and 'American quartet' from 1967 to 1976 with Paul Motian
Paul Motian
Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...
and Dewey Redman
Dewey Redman
Dewey Redman was an American jazz saxophonist, known for performing free jazz as a bandleader, and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett....
. He played in the collective Old and New Dreams
Old and New Dreams
Old and New Dreams was a jazz group that existed from 1976 to 1987 composed of tenor saxophone player Dewey Redman , bassist Charlie Haden, cornet player Don Cherry and drummer Ed Blackwell...
.
He went on to lead the Liberation Music Orchestra
Liberation Music Orchestra
Liberation Music Orchestra is a jazz album by Charlie Haden, released in 1969 . It was Haden's first album as leader.The inspiration for the album came when Haden heard songs from the Spanish Civil War...
in the 1970s. Largely arranged by Carla Bley
Carla Bley
Carla Bley, née Borg, is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other...
, their music was very experimental, exploring the realms of free jazz and political music at the same time; the first album focused specifically on the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...
. The LMO has had a shifting membership comprising a "who's who" of jazz instrumentalists. Through Bley's arranging, they have concentrated on a wide palette of brass instruments, including tuba, French horn, and trombone, in addition to the more standard trumpet and reed section. The LMO's 1982 album The Ballad of the Fallen commented again on the Spanish Civil War as well as the political instability and United States involvement in Latin America. In 1990, the orchestra returned with Dream Keeper, a more heterogeneous album which drew on American gospel music
Gospel music
Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
and South African music to comment on politics in Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
and apartheid in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. The album featured choral contributions from the Oakland Youth Chorus.
In 1971, while on tour with the Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s....
Quartet in Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
(at the time under a fascist dictatorship), Haden decided to dedicate a performance of his "Song for Che
Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
" to the anticolonialist revolutionaries in the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
, Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
, and Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau
The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west....
. The following day, he was detained at the Lisbon airport, jailed, and interrogated by the DGS (the Portuguese secret police). He was promptly released the same day after the intervention of the American cultural attaché, though he was later interviewed by the FBI in the United States about his choice of dedication.
Thematic exploration of genres not typically considered to be jazz standards became one of the signature approaches of the Charlie Haden Quartet West. Started in 1987, the Quartet consists of Ernie Watts
Ernie Watts
Ernest James "Ernie" Watts is an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. He plays saxophone and flute. He might be best known for his work with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and his Grammy Awards as an instrumentalist...
on sax, Alan Broadbent
Alan Broadbent
Alan Broadbent, MNZM , is a jazz pianist, arranger and composer best known for his work with artists such as Woody Herman, Diane Schuur, Chet Baker, Irene Kral, Sheila Jordan, Charlie Haden, Warne Marsh, Bud Shank, and many others.Broadbent studied piano and music theory in his own country, but in...
on piano, and Larance Marable
Larance Marable
Larance Marable is a West Coast jazz hard bop drummer born in Los Angeles, California, probably best known today for his work with Charlie Haden in his Quartet West. However, Marable also had a strong career first as a bop musician in the 1950s working with the likes of Dexter Gordon and Charlie...
on drums. Quartet West's albums feature lush, romantic arrangements by Broadbent, often with strings, of music from the 1930s and 1940s, often music associated with films of that period.
Haden has also been active over the years working in duets with pianists such as Hank Jones
Hank Jones
Henry "Hank" Jones was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer. Critics and musicians described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored him with the NEA Jazz Masters Award...
, Kenny Barron
Kenny Barron
Kenny Barron , is an American jazz pianist. He is the younger brother of tenor saxophonist Bill Barron, and known for his lyrical, adaptive style.-Biography:...
, and Denny Zeitlin
Denny Zeitlin
Denny Zeitlin is an American jazz pianist and composer, and a clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco...
. He has explored spiritual hymns with Jones, American folk music in American Hymns, and Cuban folk music in Nocturne
Nocturne (Charlie Haden album)
Nocturne is an album by American jazz musician Charlie Haden, released through Universal/Polygram in 2001. In 2002, the album won Haden the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.-Track listing:...
. A brief collaboration with Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...
and Al Foster
Al Foster
Al Foster is an American jazz drummer. Foster played with Miles Davis's large funk fusion group in the 70s, was one of the few people to have contact with Miles during his retirement, and was also part of his comeback album The Man With the Horn of 1981...
, players not normally associated with Haden or his immediate circle, show how distinctive Haden's voice is in a pure, hard-driving jazz context.
In 1989, Haden was featured at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and performed in concert every night of the festival, with different combos and bands. Each of these events was recorded, and most have been released in the series The Montreal Tapes.
In late 1996, he collaborated with Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
on the album Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)
Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)
Beyond the Missouri Sky is a jazz album by Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny, both Missourian.The album was released by Verve Records on February 25, 1997....
, exploring the music that influenced them in their childhood experiences in Missouri with what they call "contemporary impressionistic americana".
Haden reconvened Liberation Music Orchestra in 2005, with largely new members, for the album Not In Our Name, released on Verve Records
Verve Records
Verve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records and Norgran Records , and material which had been licensed to Mercury previously.-Jazz and folk origins:The Verve...
. The album dealt primarily with the contemporary political situation in the United States.
Haden's most recent release, Rambling Boy, features several members of his immediate family, along with Béla Fleck
Béla Fleck
Béla Anton Leoš Fleck is an American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.-Early life and career details:Fleck was born in...
, Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
, Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
, and others. The album, released on 23 September 2008, hearkens back to his days of playing Americana
Americana (music)
Americana is an amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles...
and bluegrass music with his parents on their radio show. A concert tour with Quartet West (with a new drummer) was scheduled for the late summer.
Family
His son Josh HadenJosh Haden
Josh Haden is an American jazz musician. He is the founder, bassist and singer of the group Spain. Josh Haden is the the son of Charlie Haden....
is a bass guitarist and singer. He recorded with 1980s punk band Trecherous Jaywalkers (who recorded for SST Records
SST Records
SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn. The company was initially called Solid State Transmitters through which Ginn sold electronics equipment...
), and is presently a member of Spain
Spain (band)
Spain are an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1993, and led by Josh Haden. Originally comprising Haden, his sister Petra Haden and Evan Hartzell, their debut album The Blue Moods of Spain was released in September 1995...
. His triplet daughters, Petra
Petra Haden
Petra Haden is an American violinist and singer. She is or has been a member of several bands, including That Dog, Tito & Tarantula, and The Decemberists; has contributed to recordings by The Twilight Singers, Beck, Mike Watt, Luscious Jackson, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Queens of the Stone Age,...
, Tanya
Tanya Haden
-Biography:Born in New York City, she was a member of several bands, including Let's Go Sailing, and is the creator of the Imaginary Bear puppet show. She has contributed to recordings of a number of Los Angeles musicians, including vocals and cello on Par Avion's EP, Pop Music United...
and Rachel Haden
Rachel Haden
Rachel Haden is the current bass guitarist for Todd Rundgren on his "Arena Rock" tour, and one of the triplet daughters of jazz bassist Charlie Haden....
, are all musicians. Petra and Rachel were in that dog.
That dog.
That Dog is a Los Angeles-based rock band that formed in 1991 and dissolved in 1997, reuniting in 2011. The band consists of Anna Waronker on lead vocals and guitar, Rachel Haden on bass guitar and vocals, her sister Petra Haden on violin and vocals, and Tony Maxwell on drums...
; Petra was a member of progressive folk group The Decemberists
The Decemberists
The Decemberists are an indie folk rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States, fronted by singer/songwriter Colin Meloy. The other members of the band are Chris Funk , Jenny Conlee , Nate Query , and John Moen .The band's...
, Rachel played in the rock band The Rentals
The Rentals
The Rentals are an American rock band fronted by vocalist Matt Sharp, best known as the former bass player for rock group Weezer. The band is best known for their mid-1990s hit single, "Friends of P.". The group has released two albums, Return of the Rentals and Seven More Minutes on Maverick...
, and Tanya is married to actor Jack Black
Jack Black (actor)
Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black is an American comedian, actor and musician. He makes up one half of the comedy and satirical rock duo Tenacious D. The group has two albums as well as a television series and a film. His acting career is extensive, starring primarily as bumbling, cocky, but internally...
.
As leader
- As Long as There's MusicAs Long as There's MusicAs Long as There's Music is an album of duets by bassist Charlie Haden and pianist Hampton Hawes recorded in 1976 and released on the Artists House label in 1978...
with Hampton HawesHampton HawesHampton Hawes was an American bebop and hard-bop jazz pianist, recognized as one of the finest and most influential of the 1950s.-Biography:...
(Artists House, 1976 [1978]) - ClosenessCloseness (album)Closeness is an album of duets by bassist Charlie Haden recorded in 1976 and released on the Horizon label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Recommended, particularly due to the Ornette and Jarrett collaborations".-Track listing:# "Ellen David" -...
(Horizon, 1976) - The Golden NumberThe Golden NumberThe Golden Number is an album of duets by bassist Charlie Haden recorded in 1976 and released on the Horizon label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "In general, the music is quite intriguing and has its share of variety".-Track listing:# "Out of Focus"...
(Horizon, 1977) - MagicoMagico (album)Magico is an album by bassist Charlie Haden, saxophonist Jan Garbarek and guitarist Egberto Gismonti recorded in 1979 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
with Jan GarbarekJan GarbarekJan Garbarek is a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war Czesław Garbarek and a Norwegian farmer's daughter...
and Egberto GismontiEgberto GismontiEgberto Gismonti Amin is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.Gismonti began his formal music studies at the age of six on piano. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and the composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple...
(ECM, 1979) - Folk SongsFolk Songs (album)Folk Songs is an album by bassist Charlie Haden, saxophonist Jan Garbarek and guitarist Egberto Gismonti recorded in 1979 and released on the ECM label. The album follows the trio's first recording Magico .-Reception:...
with Jan Garbarek and Egberto Gismonti (ECM, 1979) - Time Remembers One Time OnceTime Remembers One Time OnceTime Remembers One Time Once is a live album by pianist Denny Zeitlin and bassist Charlie Haden recorded at Keystone Corner in 1981 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The album received strong reviews in the United States and Europe...
with Denny ZeitlinDenny ZeitlinDenny Zeitlin is an American jazz pianist and composer, and a clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco...
(ECM, 1981) - Quartet WestQuartet WestQuartet West is an album by the American jazz bassist Charlie Haden recorded in 1986 and released on the Verve label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Stacia Proefrock awarded the album 5 stars stating "While the album may not be stretching many boundaries stylistically, this format does little to...
with Quartet West (Verve, 1986) - EtudesEtudes (album)Etudes is an album by the American jazz bassist Charlie Haden recorded in 1987 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "The communication between these three masterful players is quite impressive".-Track listing:#...
with Geri AllenGeri AllenGeri Allen is an American composer/pianist educator jazz pianist, raised in Detroit, Michigan, and educated in the Detroit Public Schools. Allen has worked with many of the greats of modern music, including Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette,...
and Paul MotianPaul MotianStephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...
(Soul Note, 1987) - SilenceSilence (Charlie Haden album)Silence is an album by the American jazz bassist Charlie Haden recorded in 1987 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars.-Track listing:# "Visa" - 5:48# "Silence" - 8:45...
with Chet BakerChet BakerChesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...
, Enrico PieranunziEnrico PieranunziEnrico Pieranunzi is an Italian jazz pianist. He fuses classical technique with jazz.He has performed with, among others, Frank Rosolino, Sal Nistico, Kenny Clarke, Johnny Griffin, Chet Baker, Joey Baron, Art Farmer, Jim Hall, Marc Johnson, Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Bill Smith, Charlie Haden, Mads...
and Billy HigginsBilly HigginsBilly Higgins was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.Higgins was born in Los Angeles, California. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman's first records, beginning in 1958...
(Soul Note, 1987) - In Angel CityIn Angel CityIn Angel City is an album by the American jazz bassist Charlie Haden's Quartet West recorded in 1988 and released on the Verve label.-Reception:...
with Quartet West (Verve, 1988) - First SongFirst SongFirst Song is an album by the American jazz bassist Charlie Haden recorded in 1990 and released on the Italian Soul Note label in 1992.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars.-Track listing:# "First Song" - 10:06...
with Enrico Pieranunzi and Billy Higgins (Soul Note, 1990 [1992]) - Private Collection (1988)
- The Montreal Tapes, vol.1 (Charlie Haden, Paul Bley, Paul MotianPaul MotianStephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...
, 1989) - Dialogues (Carlos ParedesCarlos ParedesCarlos Paredes, ComSE, was a virtuoso Portuguese guitar player, born in Coimbra, son of the equally famous Artur Paredes. He is credited with popularising the medium internationally during the 20th century, being frequently considered to be the most talented Portuguese musician in the 20th century...
, 1990) - Haunted Heart (Quartet West, 1991)
- Pop Pop (Rickie Lee JonesRickie Lee JonesRickie Lee Jones is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.-Childhood:...
, 1991) - Always Say Goodbye (1993)
- Going Back Home (Ginger BakerGinger BakerPeter Edward "Ginger" Baker is an English drummer, best known for his work with Cream and Blind Faith. He is also known for his numerous associations with World music, mainly the use of African influences...
Trio with Bill FrisellBill FrisellWilliam Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...
, 1994) - The Montreal Tapes (Trio with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell, 1994)
- Steal Away with Hank JonesHank JonesHenry "Hank" Jones was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer. Critics and musicians described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored him with the NEA Jazz Masters Award...
(Verve, 1995) - Night and the City (Kenny Barron, 1996)
- Now Is the Hour (Quartet West, 1996)
- Deep in the Blues (James Cotton, Joe Louis Walker, Charlie Haden, Dave Maxwell, 1996)
- None But the Lonely Heart (1997)
- Beyond the Missouri Sky (Pat MethenyPat MethenyPatrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
, 1997) - In The Year Of The Dragon (Geri AllenGeri AllenGeri Allen is an American composer/pianist educator jazz pianist, raised in Detroit, Michigan, and educated in the Detroit Public Schools. Allen has worked with many of the greats of modern music, including Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette,...
, Charlie Haden, Paul MotianPaul MotianStephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...
, 1998) - The Art of the SongThe Art of the SongThe Art of the Song is an album by American jazz bassist Charlie Haden and Charlie Haden's Quartet West, released in 1999. It reached number ten on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.Quartet West was formed in 1986...
(1999) - In Montreal (Egberto GismontiEgberto GismontiEgberto Gismonti Amin is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.Gismonti began his formal music studies at the age of six on piano. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and the composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple...
, 2001) - NocturneNocturne (Charlie Haden album)Nocturne is an album by American jazz musician Charlie Haden, released through Universal/Polygram in 2001. In 2002, the album won Haden the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.-Track listing:...
(2001) - American Dreams (with Michael BreckerMichael BreckerMichael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...
, 2002) - The Montreal Tapes: a tribute to Joe Henderson (with Joe HendersonJoe HendersonJoe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...
and Al FosterAl FosterAl Foster is an American jazz drummer. Foster played with Miles Davis's large funk fusion group in the 70s, was one of the few people to have contact with Miles during his retirement, and was also part of his comeback album The Man With the Horn of 1981...
, Verve, 2004) - Land of the SunLand of the Sun (album)Land of the Sun is an album by American jazz musician Charlie Haden. In 2005, the album won Haden the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.-Track listing:# "Fuiste Tú " – 6:17...
(with Gonzalo RubalcabaGonzalo RubalcabaGonzalo Rubalcaba is a Grammy Award-winning Cuban jazz pianist and composer.Gonzalo Julio Gonzalez Fonseca was born in Havana, Cuba, May 27, 1963, into a musical family rich in the traditions of the country’s artistic past...
, 2004) - Special Encounter (Enrico Pieranunzi, Paul Motian, 2005)
- Heartplay (with Antonio ForcioneAntonio ForcioneAntonio Forcione is an Italian guitarist, composer and performer. He started recording in 1983 and has appeared on dozens of albums....
, 2006) - Private Collection (Quartet West, live, Naim, 2007)
- Rambling Boy (Decca, 2008)
- Sophisticated Ladies (Quartet West, EmArcy, 2010)
With the Liberation Music Orchestra
Liberation Music Orchestra
Liberation Music Orchestra is a jazz album by Charlie Haden, released in 1969 . It was Haden's first album as leader.The inspiration for the album came when Haden heard songs from the Spanish Civil War...
- Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse!, 1969)
- The Ballad of the FallenThe Ballad of the FallenThe Ballad of the Fallen is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden, recorded in 1982 and released in 1983. The album was voted "Jazz album of the year" in Down Beat magazine's 1984 critic's poll...
(ECM, 1982) - The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (Verve, 1989)
- Dream KeeperDream KeeperDream Keeper is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden, recorded in 1990 and released by Blue Note Records. The album was nominated for a Grammy award and was voted "Jazz album of the year" in Down Beat magazine's 1991 critic's poll...
(Blue Note, 1990) - Not in Our NameNot in Our Name (album)Not in Our Name is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden, recorded in 2004 and released by Verve Records in 2005.The album is the fourth by Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, the follow-up to 1990's Dream Keeper.-Track listing:...
(Liberation Music Orchestra, 2005)
With Old and New Dreams
Old and New Dreams
Old and New Dreams was a jazz group that existed from 1976 to 1987 composed of tenor saxophone player Dewey Redman , bassist Charlie Haden, cornet player Don Cherry and drummer Ed Blackwell...
- Old and New Dreams (Black Saint, 1976)
- Old and New Dreams (ECM, 1979)
- PlayingPlaying (album)Old and New Dreams is a live album by jazz quartet Old and New Dreams featuring trumpeter Don Cherry, saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ed Blackwell recorded in 1980 for the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1980) - A Tribute to BlackwellA Tribute to BlackwellA Tribute to Blackwell is a live album by jazz quartet Old and New Dreams featuring trumpeter Don Cherry, saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ed Blackwell recorded in 1987 and released on the Italian Black Saint label.-Reception:...
(Black Saint, 1987)
As sideman
With Geri AllenGeri Allen
Geri Allen is an American composer/pianist educator jazz pianist, raised in Detroit, Michigan, and educated in the Detroit Public Schools. Allen has worked with many of the greats of modern music, including Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette,...
- In the Year of the Dragon (JMT, 1989)
- Segments (DIW, 1989)
With Kenny Barron
Kenny Barron
Kenny Barron , is an American jazz pianist. He is the younger brother of tenor saxophonist Bill Barron, and known for his lyrical, adaptive style.-Biography:...
- Wanton Spirit with Roy HaynesRoy HaynesRoy Owen Haynes is an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Haynes is among the most recorded drummers in jazz, and in a career lasting more than 60 years has played in a wide range of styles ranging from swing and bebop to jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz...
(1994)
With Carla Bley
Carla Bley
Carla Bley, née Borg, is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other...
- Escalator Over The HillEscalator over the HillEscalator over the Hill is mostly referred to as a jazz opera, but it was released as a "chronotransduction" with "words by Paul Haines, adaptation and music by Carla Bley, production and coordination by Michael Mantler", performed by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra.-History:Escalator over the Hill...
(JCOA, 1971) - Musique MecaniqueMusique MecaniqueMusique Mecanique is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley recorded in 1978 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1979.-Reception:...
(Watt, 1978)
With Paul Bley
Paul Bley
Paul Bley, CM is a pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing.-Biography:...
- MemoirsMemoirs (album)Memoirs is an album by pianist Paul Bley, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Paul Motian recorded in 1990 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.-Reception:...
(Soul Note, 1990)
With Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s....
- The Shape of Jazz to ComeThe Shape of Jazz to ComeThe Shape of Jazz to Come is an influential album by Ornette Coleman. It was his debut album for Atlantic Records who released it in late 1959....
(Atlantic, 1959) - Change of the CenturyChange of the CenturyChange of the Century is an album, recorded in 1959 and originally released in 1960, by jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman . This was Coleman's second Atlantic album and his fourth overall...
(Atlantic, 1959) - This Is Our MusicThis Is Our Music (Ornette Coleman album)This Is Our Music is a free jazz album by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, recorded in 1960 and originally released in 1961. It is especially notable as Coleman's only Atlantic recording to feature a standard – an unorthodox version of "Embraceable You" – and as the only album to feature...
(Atlantic, 1960) - The Art of the ImprovisersThe Art of the ImprovisersThe Art of the Improvisers is an album by the American jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman featuring tracks recorded between 1959 and 1961 which was first released on the Atlantic label in 1970.-Reception:...
(Atlantic, 1959-60 [1970]) - To Whom Who Keeps a RecordTo Whom Who Keeps a RecordTo Whom Who Keeps a Record is an album by the American jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman featuring tracks recorded between 1959 and 1960 which was first released on the Japanese Atlantic label in 1975.-Track listing:# "Music Always" - 5:31...
(Atlantic, 1959-60 [1975]) - Free Jazz: A Collective ImprovisationFree Jazz: A Collective ImprovisationFree Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is the sixth album by jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, recorded in 1960. Its title established the name of the then-nascent free jazz movement...
(Atlantic, 1961) - Science FictionScience Fiction (Ornette Coleman album)Science Fiction is an album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman recorded in 1971 and released on the Columbia label.-Reception:...
(Columbia, 1971) - Soapsuds, SoapsudsSoapsuds, SoapsudsSoapsuds, Soapsuds is a 1977 jazz album by Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden.-Track listing:Side A# "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" – 7:44 # "Human Being" – 7:46...
(Artists House, 1971)
With Don Cherry
Don Cherry (jazz)
Donald Eugene Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.-Biography:Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and...
- Brown Rice (A&M, 1975)
With Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane, née McLeod was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, and composer.-Biography:...
- Journey in SatchidanandaJourney in SatchidanandaJourney in Satchidananda is the fourth solo album by Alice Coltrane. Its title reflects Coltrane's inspiration by Swami Satchidananda, to whom she had become close, and whose disciple she was....
(1971) - on one track, "Isis and Osiris"
With Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...
- RhythmstickRhythmstickRhythmstick is a 1990 album and video by Dizzy Gillespie and CTI Records All-Stars.-Tracklisting:#"Barbados" #"Friday Night at the Cadillac Club" #"Nana" #"Caribe"...
(1990)
With Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as...
- Life Between The Exit SignsLife between the Exit SignsLife Between the Exit Signs is a jazz album by pianist Keith Jarrett. It was recorded on May 4, 1967 at Atlantic Recording Studios, in New York City. It was released April 1, 1968, under the record label Vortex, a subsidiary label of Atlantic Records...
(1967) - ExpectationsExpectations (Keith Jarrett album)Expectations is a 1971 recording by pianist, saxophonist and composer Keith Jarrett, released on Columbia Records. The recording features, in addition to Jarrett, tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden, drummer Paul Motian, guitarist Sam Brown, percussionist Airto Moreira, and a...
(Columbia, 1971) - Fort YawuhFort YawuhFort Yawuh is the first album released on the Impulse Records label by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Originally released in 1973, it features a live performance recorded at the Village Vanguard on February 24, 1973, by Jarrett, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, and Danny...
(Impulse!, 1973) - Treasure IslandTreasure Island (album)Treasure Island is the second album on the Impulse label by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Originally released in 1974, it features performances by Jarrett, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, and Danny Johnson....
(Impulse!, 1974) - Death and the FlowerDeath and the FlowerDeath and the Flower is the third album on the Impulse label by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Originally released in 1974 it features performances by Jarrett's 'American Quartet' which included Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian with Guilherme Franco added on percussion.-Reception:The...
(Impulse!, 1974) - The Survivors' SuiteThe Survivors' SuiteThe Survivors' Suite is an album by American pianist Keith Jarrett which was released on the ECM label in 1976. It features performances by Jarrett's 'American Quartet' which included Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, and Paul Motian.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1977) - Eyes of the HeartEyes of the heartEyes of The Heart is a jazz album by American pianist Keith Jarrett released in 1979 by the ECM record label. The personnel on the album is the "American Quartet", made up of Jarrett, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. It was recorded at the Theater am Kornmarkt, Bregenz in Austria in...
(ECM, 1979) - JasmineJasmine (album)Jasmine is a 2010 duet album by American pianist Keith Jarrett and bassist Charlie Haden. It was released on 12 May 2010.The album was recorded in 2007 at Jarrett's home studio in Oxford Township, New Jersey during the recording of a documentary about Haden.-Track listing:# " For All We Know" –...
(ECM, 2010)
With Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz is an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.Generally considered one of the driving forces of Cool Jazz, Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde settings...
- Alone Together (Blue Note, 1996) with Brad Meldhau
- Live at Birdland (ECM, 2011) with Brad Mehldau & Paul MotianPaul MotianStephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...
With Joe Lovano
Joe Lovano
Joseph Salvatore "Joe" Lovano is a post bop jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players, earning a Grammy award and several nods on Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls...
- Universal LanguageUniversal Language (Joe Lovano album)Universal Language is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano recorded in 1992 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:...
(Blue Note, 1992)
With John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin (musician)
John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...
- My Goal's BeyondMy Goal's BeyondMy Goal's Beyond is the third solo album of John McLaughlin. The album was originally released on Douglas Records in the US. It was later reissued by Rykodisc....
(1970)
With Helen Merrill
Helen Merrill
Helen Merrill is an internationally known jazz vocalist.Merrill's recording career has spanned six decades and she is popular with fans of jazz in Japan and Italy as well as in her native United States...
- You and the Night and the MusicYou and the Night and the Music (Helen Merrill album)The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album three stars and said it was a "wonderful collection of standards, augmented by two originals from Helen Merrill and Torrie Zito...
(1998)
With Mingus Dynasty
Mingus Dynasty (band)
Mingus Dynasty was an American jazz ensemble formed in 1979, just after the death of Charles Mingus, which featured many musicians Mingus recorded or played with. The group was named after the 1959 album Mingus Dynasty....
- Chair in the Sky
With Paul Motian
Paul Motian
Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...
- Conception VesselConception VesselConception Vessel is the debut album by Paul Motian and was released on the ECM label. It was released in 1972 and features performances by Motian with Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Leroy Jenkins, Sam Brown and Becky Friend.-Reception:...
(1990)
With Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
- Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono BandYoko Ono/Plastic Ono BandYoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band is the avant-garde debut album by Yoko Ono, which came after recording three experimental releases with John Lennon and a live album as a member of The Plastic Ono Band...
(1970)
With Roswell Rudd
Roswell Rudd
Roswell Rudd is a Grammy Award-nominated American jazz trombonist and composer....
- EverywhereEverywhere (Roswell Rudd album)Everywhere is an album by American jazz trombonist Roswell Rudd featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label. The tracks were rereleased on a compilation Mixed in 1998 with performances by the Cecil Taylor Unit originally released as part of Gil Evans' Into the Hot .-Reception:The...
(1966)
With Pee Wee Russell
Pee Wee Russell
Charles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but eventually focused solely on clarinet....
and Henry "Red" Allen
- The College ConcertThe College ConcertThe College Concert is an album by American jazz clarinetist Pee Wee Russell and trumpeter Henry "Red" Allen featuring a performance recorded at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology in 1966 for the Impulse! label...
(Impulse!, 1966)
With Dino Saluzzi
Dino Saluzzi
Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi is an Argentine musician.The son of popular carpero composer and instrumentalist Cayetano Saluzzi, Dino played the bandoneón since his childhood...
- Once Upon a Time - Far Away in the SouthOnce Upon a Time - Far Away in the SouthOnce Upon a Time - Far Away in the South is an album by Argentine bandoneón player and composer Dino Saluzzi recorded in 1985 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 2 stars....
(ECM, 1985)
With Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and...
- Mama Too TightMama Too TightMama Too Tight is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1966. The album contains tracks recorded by Shepp, Tommy Turrentine, Grachan Moncur III, Roswell Rudd, Howard Johnson, Perry Robinson, Charlie Haden and Beaver Harris in August 1966. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states...
(Impulse!, 1967)
With Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation.-Biography:...
- Divine LoveDivine Love (album)Divine Love is an album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Leo Smith recorded in 1978 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection....
(ECM, 1978)
With Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
- Ringo RamaRingo RamaRingo Rama is Ringo Starr's 12th studio album and was released in 2003. As the follow-up to 1998's Vertical Man, it continues Starr's alliance with Mark Hudson as well as most of his collaborators from that last project...
(2003)
External links
- Charlie Haden Official Web site
- Charlie Haden interview on Democracy Now!Democracy Now!Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of...
, September 1, 2006 - Official Documentary Website
- Interview by Ethan Iverson