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Biography
Infobox musical artist| name = Charlie Haden| image = Charlie_Haden_-_Pescara_Italy_1990.jpg| caption = Haden in Pescara Italy, 1990| image_size = 200| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name = Charles Edward Haden| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1937|8|6|mf=y| death_date =| origin = Shenandoah, Iowa , United States|U.S. | instrument = Double bass | genre = Free jazz Mainstream jazz Post-bop Hard bop | occupation = Double bassist | years_active = 1957–present| label =| associated_acts = Ornette Coleman , Pat Metheny , Liberation Music Orchestra , Quartet West| website =| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments = Charles Edward Haden (born August 6, 1937)Allmusic|class=artist|id=p83212/biography|pure_url=yes allmusic Biography 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.
Early life
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. 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.
Career
Early period
Haden moved to Los Angeles in 1957. His first recordings were made that year with Paul Bley . He began recording with Ornette Coleman shortly after, including the important The Shape of Jazz to Come . Haden's folk-influenced style complemented the microtonal , Texas blues elements of Coleman. Haden would enter Keith Jarrett 's trio and his 'American Quartet' from 1967 to 1976 with Paul Motian and Dewey Redman . He also 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 Guevara|Che " to the anticolonialist revolutionaries in the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique , Angola , and Guinea-Bissau . The following day, he was detained at Lisbon Airport, jailed, and interrogated by the PIDE#DGS|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. http://www.democracynow.org/2006/9/1/jazz_legend_charlie_haden_on_his Jazz Legend Charlie Haden on His Life, His Music and His Politics. Democracy Now. September 01, 2006 Accessed January 5, 2009.
Later period
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 performed and recorded in a number of duos with pianists including Hank Jones (with whom he recorded Steal Away, and Come Sunday, both collections of American folk and gospel tunes), Kenny Barron , and Denny Zeitlin . He has also recorded two albums of Cuban music with the pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba , Nocturne (Charlie Haden album)|Nocturne and Land of the Sun .
A brief collaboration with Joe Henderson and Al Foster , players not normally associated with Haden or his immediate circle, showcased Haden's playing in a more 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 the 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 2008 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 (music)|Americana and bluegrass music with his parents on their radio show. A concert tour with Quartet West (with a new drummer) took place in the late summer of that year.
In 2012, Haden was a recipient of the NEA Jazz Masters Award.
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 (band)|Spain . His triplet daughters, Petra Haden|Petra , Tanya Haden|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 (actor)|Jack Black .
Discography
As leader
'' As Long as There's Music with Hampton Hawes ( Artists House , 1976 1978)
Closeness (album)|Closeness (Horizon, 1976)
The Golden Number (Horizon, 1977)
Gitane (album)|Gitane with Christian Escoude (All Life, 1978)
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