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Charlie Haden

Biography:

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 he teamed 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, and Keith Jarrett, 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. An acoustic bassist of extraordinary gifts, Haden’s talents as a musicain 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). 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 recent 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 honors from around the globe, including and the Los Angeles Jazz Society prize for “Jazz Educator of the Year”, two 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 (Charles Cros) Award, Japan’s SWING Journal Gold, Silver and Bronze awards. Montreal Jazz Festival’s Miles Davis Award

Discography:

1969 Liberation Music Orchestra - Japanese
1976 As Long as There's Music - Verve
1976 Closeness (Duets) - A&M
1976 Golden Number - A&M
1978 Gitane - Dreyfus
1979 Magico - ECM
1979 Folk Songs - ECM
1982 The Ballad of the Fallen - ECM
1986 Quartet West - Verve
1987 Etudes - Soul Note
1987 Silence - Soul Note
1988 In Angel City - Verve
1989 Montreal Tapes, Vol. 1 [live] - Polygram
1990 Dialogues - Antilles
1990 Dream Keeper - Blue Note
1990 First Song - Soul Note
1991 Haunted Heart - Polygram
1993 Always Say Goodbye - Polygram
1994 Steal Away - Polygram
1994 The Montreal Tapes, Vol. 2 [live] - Verve
1995 Now Is the Hour - Polygram
1995 Private Collection, No. 1 [live] - Naim
1995 Private Collection, No. 2 [live] - Naim
1996 Night and the City [live] - Polygram
1996 Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) - Verve
1997 Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)... - Polygram
1997 None But the Lonely Heart - Naim
1999 The Art of the Song - Polygram
2001 Nocturne - Verve
2001 In Montreal [live] - ECM
2002 American Dreams - Verve
2003 Missouri Sky [Bonus DVD] - Verve
2004 The Montreal Tapes [live] - Verve
2004 Land of the Sun- Verve
2006 Heartplay - Naim
2006 Helium Tears - By
2006 If - Naim
2008 Rambling Boy - Decca
2009 When The Heart Dances - Naim
2010 Sophisticated Ladies - Universal Import

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