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Charlie Haden Quartet West: Sophisticated Ladies

Read "Sophisticated Ladies" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
November 30, 2010

Gorgeous, poised and inviting. And that's just the sister on the cover of bassist Charlie Haden's latest with-singers-and-strings album. It's a retro design which, like the disc it packages, was inspired by Capitol Records' distinctive jazz-inflected vocal albums of the early 1960s. Your parents got off on this stuff big time back in the day, while you were busy listening to singer Bob Dylan and saxophonist Ornette Coleman and preparing for a little therapeutic rioting. But time passes and age ...

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Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden: Jasmine

by Joe Alterman
September 11, 2010

Keith Jarrett, like Sonny Rollins, is quite hard to pin down. Like the iconic saxophonist, for many years now, the equally legendary pianist has been leaning towards the songs of his youth, and even earlier. Compared with their song choices of, say, twenty years ago, it would seem that these players have become more conservative over the years; that is, however, simply not true. Again, like Rollins, Jarrett's improvisations have evolved through the years, with an even greater searching and ...

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Keith Jarrett - Charlie Haden: Jasmine

Read "Jasmine" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 6, 2010

Jarrett e Haden si sono incontrati in diverse occasioni negli anni Settanta, ma mai in duo, quindi Jasmine può essere considerata -anche solo per questo- una novità nell'ormai omologata produzione jarrettiana che da molti anni si limita al trio, ad altre centellinate sortite solistiche e poco altro. Del resto il pianista nei suoi quarantacinque anni di carriera ha scremato con acume e estrema selettività non solo un'estetica personale ma anche le sue frequentazioni. Tra i jazzisti sembra trovare le sue ...

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Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden: Jasmine

Read "Jasmine" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 9, 2010

In the world of jazz, it's often said that “live is better." The immediacy and spontaneity of a living, breathing, and hopefully rapt audience can lend electricity to a recording foray. For pianist Keith Jarrett, this may be truer than it is for most artists. His Standards Trio, with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette has been an almost exclusively “recorded live affair," other than the notable exceptions of his initial 1983 session with the group that resulted in ...

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Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden: Jasmine

by John Kelman
May 18, 2010

As close to a direct pipeline to the heart as anything, it's hard for music to be anything but intimate reflection of events transpiring in a musician's life. Pianist Keith Jarrett's last release--the stunning triple-disc Testament--Paris / London (ECM, 2009)--was, self-admittedly, impacted by the pianist's “incredibly vulnerable emotional state," but resulted in some of his deepest, most moving solo improvisations yet. Recorded in 2007, the year before the shows from which Testament was culled, the song choices on Jasmine--Jarrett's first ...

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Charlie Haden Family & Friends: Rambling Boy

Read "Rambling Boy" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 23, 2008

Nell’album di famiglia c’è posto per tutti. Ci sono papà Carl e mamma Virginia. I fratelli maggiori, Carl Jr. e Jim. Poi un piccolissimo Charlie che sorride. Si va avanti, e foto dopo foto, di generazione in generazione ecco spuntare figli, moglie e amici. Charlie Haden a 71 anni riparte dai ricordi. Riparte da quando, a due anni suonati, cantava in radio “Old Haden Family Show” o da quando con i suoi genitori “Uncle Carl & Mary Jane” sbarcava il ...

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Charlie Haden: The Private Collection

Read "The Private Collection" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 23, 2008

The Private Collection documenta due concerti hadeniani tenuti nel 1987 e 1988, ora tirati fuori dall’archivio privato del contrabbassista per la realizzazione di questo doppio CD, consigliabile ai fan più fedeli del Quartet West. Una macchina di suono perfettamente oleata, in cui niente è fuori posto per via di dinamiche e processi d’insieme ottimizzati nel corso di un ventennio di carriera concertistica e discografica. Troviamo, insomma, un piacevole percorso post-boppistico, proposto con indubbia classe e maestria ma senza il fuoco ...