Charlie Haden
Born in Shenandoah, Iowa, Charlie Haden began his life in music almost immediately, singing on his parents’ country & western radio show at the tender age of 22 months. He started playing bass in his early teens and in 1957, left America’s heartland for Los Angeles, where he met and played with such legends as Art Pepper, Hampton Hawes, and Dexter Gordon. In 1959, Haden teamed up with Ornette Coleman to form the saxophonist’s pioneering quartet (alongside trumpeter Don Cherry and drummer Billy Higgins). In addition to his still-influential work with Coleman, Haden also collaborated with a number of adventurous jazz giants, including John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Keith Jarrett, and Pat Metheny. In 1969, Haden joined forces with pianist/composer Carla Bley, founding the Liberation Music Orchestra. The group’s self-titled debut is a true milestone of modern music, blending experimental big band jazz with the folk songs of the Spanish Civil War to create a powerfully original work of musical/political activism. After 2 further recordings he reconvened the Liberation Music Orchestra in 2005, with largely new members, for the album ‘Not In Our Name’. This recording dealt primarily with the contemporary political situation in the United States. An acoustic bassist of extraordinary gifts, Haden’s talents as a musician have been in constant demand by his fellow artists. As a result, he has collaborated with a genuinely stunning array of musicians, including Hank Jones, Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Paul Motian, Jack DeJohnette, Michael Brecker, Kenny Barron, and Pat Metheny (with whom Haden shared a 1997 “Best Jazz Instrumental Individual/Small Group” Grammy® Award for their ‘Beyond the Missouri Sky’ album) . Haden’s love of world music has also seen him teaming with a variety of diverse international players, including Brazilian guitarist Egberto Gismonti, Argentinean bandoneon master Dino Saluzzi, and Portuguese guitar giant Carlos Paredes. In addition, Haden has explored diverse streams of American popular music with both his acclaimed Quartet West, as well as on such collections as 2002’s inventive alliance with Michael Brecker, “American Dreams.” Charlie Haden who was invited to establish the jazz studies program at California Institute of the Arts in 1982, has earned countless honours from around the globe, including the Los Angeles Jazz Society prize for “Jazz Educator of the Year”, three Grammy Awards (alongside a multitude of nominations), myriad Down Beat readers and critics poll winners, a Guggenheim fellowship, four NEA grants for composition, France’s Grand Prix Du Disque Award, Japan’s SWING Journal Gold, Silver and Bronze awards. As well as the Montreal Jazz Festival’s Miles Davis Award for a lifetime of contributing to improvised music. The genesis of his 2008 release ‘Rambling Boy’ dates back more than two decades. In the late 1980’s Charlie and his wife Ruth Cameron packed up all the kids to see their Grandmother in Missouri to celebrate her 80th birthday. “Ruth got all of us to sing together and before you knew it, the kids were all singing harmony with my brothers and sisters and they all blended so well. It was just such a natural event and it felt so good and sounded so good that I knew in my heart that one day we’d all sing together. Charlie Haden Family & Friends: Rambling Boy brings the artist’s personal history full circle and presents a new generation of the Haden Family – a legendary Midwest music institution in the 1930s and 1940s, now reborn in the 21st century. 2010 saw the release of the ECM recording ‘Jasmine’, Keith Jarrett's first recorded collaboration in decades other than with his standards trio, and reunites him with the great bassist Charlie Haden, a close partner until the mid-seventies. Intimate, spontaneous and warm, this album of love songs recorded at Jarrett's home, has affinities, in its unaffected directness, with many of the works of both artists. Founded in the mid-Eighties by bassist Charlie Haden, Quartet West was and still is, undisputedly, one of the most elegant and coherent small-groups in contemporary jazz. Together with Ernie Watts on tenor saxophone, Alan Broadbent on piano and Larance Marable on drums, Haden resuscitated and modernized a typically Californian way of playing the "jazz game", one made of softness, sophistication and sensual clarity. The quartets six recordings — "Quartet West" (1987), "In Angel City" (1988), "Haunted Heart" (1992), "Always say Goodbye" (1994), "Now Is the Hour" (1996) and "The Art Of Song" (1999) —can all be read as autobiographical, melancholy plunges into the intimate recesses of the bassist's imagination: as many chapters of some dreamlike auto-fiction that multiplies the connexions and relations between Californian jazz of the immediate post-war period, and Hollywood during the same era, which was marked notably by the deadly sophistication of the great noir films. This is a sensual, nostalgic drift through the subconscious of one of the greatest musicians in contemporary jazz. The new release by Quartet West ‘Sophisticated Ladies’ not only finds the group with a new drummer (Rodney Green), but as well in the company of some of the greatest female vocalists of our time – Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall, Melody Gardot, Norah Jones, Renee Fleming and Charlie’s wife, Ruth Cameron. With a tour for the Quartet West being booked for late 2010 and early 2011 and further recordings already done and planned with various collaborators, the musical adventures of Charlie Haden are continuing …….
ALBUM
Una raccolta completa degli album di Charlie Haden, dalle prime produzioni ai successi più recenti.
Charlie Haden, Hampton Hawes
As Long As There's Music
Charlie Haden
Liberation Music Orchestra
Charlie Haden
5 Original Albums
CoffretCharlie Haden, Pat Metheny
Beyond The Missouri Sky
Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden
Live At Birdland
Charlie Haden, Geri Allen, Paul Motian
The Montréal Tapes
Charlie Haden, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti
Folk Songs
Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti, Charlie Haden
Magico - Carta de Amor
Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden
Old And New Dreams
Dino Saluzzi, Palle Mikkelborg, Charlie Haden
Once Upon A Time - Far Away In The South
Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden
Jasmine
Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra
Time / Life
Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell
The Montreal Tapes
Live In Montreal / 1989
Charlie Haden, Carla Bley
The Ballad Of The Fallen
Charlie Haden, Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Tokyo Adagio
Keith Jarrett, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden
Byablue
MFiTKeith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian
Hamburg '72
Live At NDR-Funkhaus, Hamburg / 1972Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden
Last Dance
Charlie Haden, Hank Jones
Come Sunday
Optimized For DigitalCharlie Haden, Paul Motian, Gonzalo Rubalcaba
The Montreal Tapes
Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Paul Bley
The Montreal Tapes
Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden Family & Friends - Rambling Boy
Charlie Haden
Family & Friends - Rambling Boy
Bonus Track VersionCharlie Haden
Liberation Music Orchestra: The Montreal Tapes
Charlie Haden
Quartet West
Charlie Haden
The Montreal Tapes
Charlie Haden, Egberto Gismonti
In Montreal
Denny Zeitlin, Charlie Haden
Time Remembers One Time Once
Charlie Haden, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti
Magico
SINGOLI
I singoli più rappresentativi di Charlie Haden, tra successi storici e nuove uscite.
Charlie Haden, Hank Jones
It Came Upon The Midnight Clear / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
BIOGRAFIA
Born in Shenandoah, Iowa, Charlie Haden began his life in music almost immediately, singing on his parents’ country & western radio show at the tender age of 22 months. He started playing bass in his early teens and in 1957, left America’s heartland for Los Angeles, where he met and played with such legends as Art Pepper, Hampton Hawes, and Dexter Gordon.
In 1959, Haden teamed up with Ornette Coleman to form the saxophonist’s pioneering quartet (alongside trumpeter Don Cherry and drummer Billy Higgins). In addition to his still-influential work with Coleman, Haden also collaborated with a number of adventurous jazz giants, including John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Keith Jarrett, and Pat Metheny.
In 1969, Haden joined forces with pianist/composer Carla Bley, founding the Liberation Music Orchestra. The group’s self-titled debut is a true milestone of modern music, blending experimental big band jazz with the folk songs of the Spanish Civil War to create a powerfully original work of musical/political activism. After 2 further recordings he reconvened the Liberation Music Orchestra in 2005, with largely new members, for the album ‘Not In Our Name’. This recording dealt primarily with the contemporary political situation in the United States.
An acoustic bassist of extraordinary gifts, Haden’s talents as a musician have been in constant demand by his fellow artists. As a result, he has collaborated with a genuinely stunning array of musicians, including Hank Jones, Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Paul Motian, Jack DeJohnette, Michael Brecker, Kenny Barron, and Pat Metheny (with whom Haden shared a 1997 “Best Jazz Instrumental Individual/Small Group” Grammy® Award for their ‘Beyond the Missouri Sky’ album) .
Haden’s love of world music has also seen him teaming with a variety of diverse international players, including Brazilian guitarist Egberto Gismonti, Argentinean bandoneon master Dino Saluzzi, and Portuguese guitar giant Carlos Paredes. In addition, Haden has explored diverse streams of American popular music with both his acclaimed Quartet West, as well as on such collections as 2002’s inventive alliance with Michael Brecker, “American Dreams.”
Charlie Haden who was invited to establish the jazz studies program at California Institute of the Arts in 1982, has earned countless honours from around the globe, including the Los Angeles Jazz Society prize for “Jazz Educator of the Year”, three Grammy Awards (alongside a multitude of nominations), myriad Down Beat readers and critics poll winners, a Guggenheim fellowship, four NEA grants for composition, France’s Grand Prix Du Disque Award, Japan’s SWING Journal Gold,
Silver and Bronze awards. As well as the Montreal Jazz Festival’s Miles Davis Award for a lifetime of contributing to improvised music.
The genesis of his 2008 release ‘Rambling Boy’ dates back more than two decades. In the late 1980’s Charlie and his wife Ruth Cameron packed up all the kids to see their Grandmother in Missouri to celebrate her 80th birthday. “Ruth got all of us to sing together and before you knew it, the kids were all singing harmony with my brothers and sisters and they all blended so well. It was just such a natural event and it felt so good and sounded so good that I knew in my heart that one day we’d all sing together.
Charlie Haden Family & Friends: Rambling Boy brings the artist’s personal history full circle and presents a new generation of the Haden Family – a legendary Midwest music institution in the 1930s and 1940s, now reborn in the 21st century.
2010 saw the release of the ECM recording ‘Jasmine’, Keith Jarrett's first recorded collaboration in decades other than with his standards trio, and reunites him with the great bassist Charlie Haden, a close partner until the mid-seventies. Intimate, spontaneous and warm, this album of love songs recorded at Jarrett's home, has affinities, in its unaffected directness, with many of the works of both artists.
Founded in the mid-Eighties by bassist Charlie Haden, Quartet West was and still is, undisputedly, one of the most elegant and coherent small-groups in contemporary jazz. Together with Ernie Watts on tenor saxophone, Alan Broadbent on piano and Larance Marable on drums, Haden resuscitated and modernized a typically Californian way of playing the "jazz game", one made of softness, sophistication and sensual clarity. The quartets six recordings — "Quartet West" (1987), "In Angel City" (1988), "Haunted Heart" (1992), "Always say Goodbye" (1994), "Now Is the Hour" (1996) and "The Art Of Song" (1999) —can all be read as autobiographical, melancholy plunges into the intimate recesses of the bassist's imagination: as many chapters of some dreamlike auto-fiction that multiplies the connexions and relations between Californian jazz of the immediate post-war period, and Hollywood during the same era, which was marked notably by the deadly sophistication of the great noir films. This is a sensual, nostalgic drift through the subconscious of one of the greatest musicians in contemporary jazz.
The new release by Quartet West ‘Sophisticated Ladies’ not only finds the group with a new drummer (Rodney Green), but as well in the company of some of the greatest female vocalists of our time – Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall, Melody Gardot, Norah Jones, Renee Fleming and Charlie’s wife, Ruth Cameron.
With a tour for the Quartet West being booked for late 2010 and early 2011 and further recordings already done and planned with various collaborators, the musical adventures of Charlie Haden are continuing …….
ULTIME NEWS
15.12.2016
Recensione di "Time/Life" su All About Jazz
Giuseppe Segala recensisce "Time/Life", l'album che documenta l'ultima registrazione di Charlie Haden insieme con la Liberation Music Orchestra. Il giudizio è molto più che positivo (e porta ad una valutazione da quattro stelle e mezza). Leggi la recensione cliccando sull'immagine qua sotto...
03.07.2015
'TOKYO ADAGIO': guarda il trailer del capolavoro di Charlie Haden con Gonzalo Rubalcaba!
Ecco il trailer di TOKYO ADAGIO, l'album appena pubblicato su etichetta impulse! Prima della scomparsa (avvenuta nell’estate del 2014), Charlie Haden aveva espresso il desiderio che questa magnifica registrazione catturata dal vivo nel 2005 a Tokio venisse pubblicata. Eccola, un vero capolavoro che vede ancora una volta il grande contrabbassista al fianco del virtuoso cubano del pianoforte Gonzalo Rubalcaba, come ai tempi del fortunatissimo NOCTURNE. E sono proprio le atmosfere (e il repertorio, nel caso di En la orilla del mundo e Transparence) di NOCTURNE ad essere lo spunto per un dialogo affascinante, seducente, ipnotico. Un album destinato a diventare un grande classico. Clicca sulla copertina per accedere al video!
10.06.2015
'TOKIO ADAGIO', il capolavoro di Charlie Haden e Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Prima della scomparsa (avvenuta nell’estate del 2014), Charlie Haden aveva espresso il desiderio che questa magnifica registrazione catturata dal vivo nel 2005 a Tokio venisse pubblicata. Eccola, un vero capolavoro che vede ancora una volta il grande contrabbassista al fianco del virtuoso cubano del pianoforte Gonzalo Rubalcaba, come ai tempi del fortunatissimo NOCTURNE. E sono proprio le atmosfere (e il repertorio, nel caso di En la orilla del mundo e Transparence) di NOCTURNE ad essere lo spunto per un dialogo affascinante, seducente, ipnotico. Un album destinato a diventare un grande classico.
10.06.2015
'TOKYO ADAGIO', il capolavoro di Charlie Haden e Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Prima della scomparsa (avvenuta nell’estate del 2014), Charlie Haden aveva espresso il desiderio che questa magnifica registrazione catturata dal vivo nel 2005 a Tokio venisse pubblicata. Eccola, un vero capolavoro che vede ancora una volta il grande contrabbassista al fianco del virtuoso cubano del pianoforte Gonzalo Rubalcaba, come ai tempi del fortunatissimo NOCTURNE. E sono proprio le atmosfere (e il repertorio, nel caso di En la orilla del mundo e Transparence) di NOCTURNE ad essere lo spunto per un dialogo affascinante, seducente, ipnotico. Un album destinato a diventare un grande classico.
05.11.2014
Leggi la recensione di 'CHARLIE HADEN · JIM HALL' apparsa sul Corriere della Sera
Claudio Sessa recensisce (in termini più he elogiativi) sulle pagine del Corriere della Sera il capolavoro postumo di Charlie Haden e Jim Hall, appena uscito su etichetta impulse! Leggi la recensione (sul sito del quotidiano) cliccando sulla copertina qua sotto!
28.10.2014
Esce 'CHARLIE HADEN - JIM HALL', un disco destinato a fare storia
Un amaro scherzo della sorte ha fatto di questo atteso e inedito capolavoro – registrato dal vivo al Festival di Montréal nel luglio del 1990 – un album postumo per entrambi i protagonisti: Charlie Haden è scomparso venerdì 11 luglio - mentre l'album veniva preparato per la pubblicazione - pochi mesi dopo la dipartita di Jim Hall, che ci ha lasciati lo scorso 13 dicembre. L'album ci permette di ascoltarli al meglio della forma, nella formula del duo contrabbasso-chitarra molto cara a sia a Haden (basti citare il celeberrimo 'Beyond the Missouri Sky' con Pat Metheny, del quale qui si riprende il toccante 'First Song') sia a Hall (famosi i suoi duetti con Ron Carter). Un capolavoro.
14.07.2014
La scomparsa di Charlie Haden
Il grande contrabbasista Charlie Haden è scomparso venerdì, all'età di 76 anni.
04.11.2010
"Sophisticated Ladies" di Charlie Haden: un successo annunciato (e realizzato)
L'ormai pluridecennale storia del laboratorio di Charlie Haden (oggi con Rodney Green alla batteria, a posto che fu di Larance Marable) aggiunge un nuovo capitolo: con Sophisticated Ladies il grande contrabbassista prosegue nella sua "operazione nostalgia", rievocando i fasti della grande canzone americana grazie all'apporto di una incredibile rosa di jazz ladies con Diana Krall, Melody Gardot, Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Renée Fleming e Ruth Cameron. In Francia il CD sta raggiungendo risultati sensazionali: 26° nelle charts dei CD fisici, 13° nelle digital charts, e n. 1 nella jazz charts sia come CD che come album digitale. Intanto Charlie Haden sta girando per l´Europa: il Sophisticated Ladies Tour ha toccato domenica scorsa il Teatro Manzoni a Milano, registrando un trionfale tutto esaurito.
07.10.2010
Nuovo disco per Charlie Haden, nei negozi a fine ottobre.
L'ormai pluridecennale storia del laboratorio di Charlie Haden (oggi con Rodney Green alla batteria, a posto che fu di Larance Marable) aggiunge un nuovo capitolo: con Sophisticated Ladies il grande contrabbassista prosegue nella sua "operazione nostalgia", rievocando i fasti della grande canzone americana grazie all'apporto di una incredibile rosa di jazz ladies con Diana Krall, Melody Gardot, Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Renée Fleming e Ruth Cameron. Charlie Haden sarà in Italia il 31 ottobre in occasione del suo concerto a Milano.
01.10.2010
Charlie Haden: unica data italiana a Milano. A pochi giorni dalla pubblicazione di "Sophisticated Ladies"
Charlie Haden festeggia i 25 anni di attività del Quartet West con un nuovo album, che ospita una incredibile rosa di vocalist: Diana Krall a Melody Gardot, Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Renée Fleming e la signora Haden (Ruth Cameron).
16.09.2010
A ottobre uscitrà "Sophisticated Ladies", il nuovo album di Charlie Haden con il Quartet West
L'ormai pluridecennale storia del laboratorio di Charlie Haden aggiungerà a fine ottobre un nuovo capitolo: con Sphisticated Ladies" il grande contrabbassista prosegue lnella sua "operazione nostalgia", rievovcando i fasti della grande canzone americana grazie all'apporto di una incredibile rosa di cantanti. All'album infatti contribuiranno Diana Krall a Melody Gardot, Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Renée Fleming e la signora Haden (Ruth Cameron). In più una novità nell formazione dello storico quartetto: Rodney Green siede alla batteria al posto che fu di Larance Marable.
29.07.2009
Charlie Haden in un imperdibile box di 6 CD a prezzo speciale
Un monumento dedicato a quei giorni di 20 anni fa, quando i gestori del Festival di Montréal diedero carta bianca a Charlie Haden, il quale convocò, in varie formazioni, Joe Henderson, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Geri Allen, Al Foster e i vecchi compagni di avventure Paul Motian e Paul Bley, dando vita ad una serie di concerti indimenticabili. Qui riuniti in un elegante box di 6 CD a prezzo incredibile: una vera chicca per tutti gli appassionati.
05.09.2008
Charlie Haden: un nuovo sito per RAMBLING BOY
Un tuffo nel passato, un modo per riaccostarsi alla musica della sua infanzia, ritornare a incidere con la propria famiglia (c´è anche una registrazione di Charlie a tre anni con i famigliari!) e con vecchi e nuovi amici... il sogno Country di Charlie Haden (già in qualche modo anticipato in American Dreams 064 0962) prende forma in compagnia di affermate star del Country & Western (c´è anche Béla Fleck), ma anche di artisti come Elvis Costello e l´amico di sempre Pat Metheny: questo è RAMBLING BOY.
26.08.2008
