Charlie Haden

Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden

Haden in Pescara Italy, 1990
Background information
Birth name Charles Edward Haden
Born August 6, 1937 (1937-08-06) (age 74)
Origin Shenandoah, Iowa, U.S.
Genres Free jazz
Mainstream jazz
Post-bop
Hard bop
Occupations Double bassist
Instruments Double bass
Years active 1957–present
Associated acts Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny, Liberation Music Orchestra, Quartet West

Charles Edward Haden (born August 6, 1937)[1] is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. Haden is also known for his signature lyrical bass lines.

Contents

Biography

Haden was born in Shenandoah, Iowa, 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.[1] 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.[1] 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.[1] He played in the collective Old and New Dreams.[1]

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.[2]

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.

Family

His son Josh Haden 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.

Discography

As leader

Haden in Gent, Belgium, 2007

With Old and New Dreams

  • Old and New Dreams (Black Saint, 1976)
  • Old and New Dreams (ECM, 1979)
  • Playing (ECM, 1980)
  • A Tribute to Blackwell (Black Saint, 1987)

As sideman

With Kenny Barron

With Paul Bley

With Ornette Coleman

With Alice Coltrane

With Dizzy Gillespie

  • Rhythmstick (1990)

With Keith Jarrett

With Lee Konitz

  • Alone Together (Blue Note, 1996) with Brad Meldhau
  • Live at Birdland (ECM, 2011) with Brad Mehldau & Paul Motian

With Joe Lovano

  • Universal Language (Blue Note, 1992)

With John McLaughlin

With Helen Merrill

  • You and the Night and the Music (1998)

With Paul Motian

With Yoko Ono

With Roswell Rudd

  • Everywhere (1966)

With Pee Wee Russell and Henry "Red" Allen

  • The College Concert (Impulse!, 1966)

With Dino Saluzzi

  • Once Upon a Time - Far Away in the South (ECM, 1985)

With Archie Shepp

With Wadada Leo Smith

With Ringo Starr

References

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Charlie Haden — Charlie Haden, 2007 Charles Edward „Charlie“ Haden (* 6. August 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa) ist ein US amerikanischer Jazz Kontrabassist, Komponist und Bandleader. Er wurde zunächst bekannt als Mitglied im Quartett des Altsaxophonisten und …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Charlie Haden — Charlie Haden. Pescara (Italia). 1990. Charles Edward Haden (Shenandoah, Iowa, 6 de agosto de 1937), es un contrabajista de jazz, conocido principalmente por su asociación con el saxofonista de jazz Ornette Coleman. Haden también …   Wikipedia Español

  • Charlie Haden — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Charlie et Haden. Charlie Haden Naissance …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Charlie Haden — …   Википедия

  • Nocturne (Charlie Haden album) — Nocturne Studio album by Charlie Haden Released April 17, 2001 …   Wikipedia

  • Haden — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Charlie Haden (* 1937), US amerikanischer Jazz Kontrabassist, Komponist und Bandleader Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), englischer Arzt, Künstler und Kunstföderer Diese Seite ist eine Begrif …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Haden — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Haden peut faire référence à : Andy Haden (1950 ), un ancien joueur de rugby à XV néo zélandais, Charlie Haden (1937 ), un contrebassiste de free… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Charlie Strong — Sport(s) Football Current position Title Head coach Team Louisville Record 13–11 Biographical details Born August 2, 1960 …   Wikipedia

  • Charles Edward Haden — Charlie Haden, 2007 Charles Edward „Charlie“ Haden (* 6. August 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa) ist ein amerikanischer Jazz Kontrabassist, Komponist und Bandleader. Er wurde zunächst bekannt als Mitglied im Quartett des Altsaxophonisten und …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Haden, Charlie — ▪ American musician byname of  Charles Edward Haden   born Aug. 6, 1937, Shenandoah, Iowa, U.S.    American bass virtuoso and bandleader, one of the first improvisers to play free jazz and possibly its most influential bassist.       From the age …   Universalium

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”