Jazz Articles about Charlie Haden

Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra: Not In Our Name

by Mark Corroto
August 23, 2005

They say resistance is futile. But for many Americans, it is also part of being a patriot. Have you noticed, for example, that nearly a year after the election, most people have yet to remove their John Kerry bumper stickers? This homegrown opposition should adopt the title of Charlie Haden's new Liberation Music Orchestra recording, Not In Our Name.

Haden, a consummate timekeeper, formed his LMO with Carla Bley in 1969 to record revolutionary songs from the Spanish ...

Q&A with Charlie Haden

by AAJ Staff
June 8, 2005

All About Jazz: How did you come to play jazz? Charlie Haden: Well, I was involved with country-western music during the beginning of my life, from the time I was 2 until the time I was 16. My parents were on the Grand Ole Opry before I was born. AAJ: Why the bass? CH: My brother played bass on our radio show and I really loved the bass. I loved the sound ...

Charlie Haden: Land of the Sun

by Javier AQ Ortiz
June 5, 2005

Land of the Sun could--perhaps even should--be retitled Bolero: Gonzalo Rubalcaba Presents the Music of José Sabre MarroquÃ-n with Charlie Haden. This recording is about prowess of interpretative melodic dynamics; harmonic, rhythmic, and tonal beauty; and rigorous poetic tenderness. Playing jazzed boleros at this level of musicianship isn't an easy matter nonetheless. One must have disciplined chops, intense sensibility, an openness to the compositions' emotive aim, an all-embracing musical lingo, and the intellectual fortitude to avoid the temptation ...

Charlie Haden & Quartet West at the Portland Jazz Festival

by Jason West
April 15, 2005

Charlie Haden & Quartet West Portland Jazz Festival February 18, 2005

Last February, Wayne Shorter and his quartet played the Portland Marriott ballroom, christening the city's inaugural jazz festival with a performance that over the next 12 months remained a source of inspiration for musical circles on both sides of the Willamette River. This year it was Charlie Haden's turn to make waves.

The venerable Grammy-winning bassist led a parade of big-name jazz artists appearing at ...

Charlie Haden Quartet West at the 2005 Portland Jazz Festival

by Jason West
February 27, 2005

Last February, Wayne Shorter and his quartet played the Portland Marriott ballroom, christening the city's inaugural jazz festival with a performance that over the next twelve months has remained a source of inspiration for musical circles on both sides of the Willamette River. This year it was Charlie Haden's turn to make waves.

The venerable Grammy-winning bassist led a parade of big-name jazz artists appearing at the 2nd Annual Portland Jazz Festival, a nine-day procession (February 11-20) that featured the ...

Charlie Haden: Making Beautiful Music

by R.J. DeLuke
December 2, 2004

Music has occupied the life of Charlie Haden, the superbly melodic bassist, from as early as he can remember. Before he was 2, he was singing harmony to songs he heard around the house, songs his mother sang, songs his family performed at the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s. Songs, beautiful songs, have been at the core of Haden's work since he took up serious study of music and moved to California, where he began playing with some of ...

Charlie Haden: Land Of The Sun

by Jim Santella
November 4, 2004

Charlie Haden explains that his focus for Land Of The Sun rests firmly on “three great composers who reflect the beauty of the music of Mexico." José Sabre Marroquín, Armando Manzanero and Augustín Lara have given us a treasury of graceful themes that reflect a society where music has never taken a back seat, and a country that is proud to preserve its traditions. With his deep bass gently pushing its lyrical framework along rustic breezes, the ensemble is free ...