Results for "Charlie Haden"

Charlie Haden / Antonio Forcione: Heartplay

by John Kelman
August 25, 2007

Fans of Charlie Haden's lyrical duet album with guitarist Pat Metheny, Beyond the Missouri Sky (Verve, 1997), will find the bassist's collaboration with guitarist Antonio Forcione, Heartplay not the same, but certainly a not-too-distant cousin. Unlike Metheny, however, who utilizes an array of acoustic and electric instruments, Forcione works strictly with nylon string acoustic guitar here, ...

Speak Low

Featuring the music of Charlie Haden
Duration: 4:54
August 6, 2007

Helium Tears

By Charlie Haden

Label: New Edition Records
Released: 2006

Not In Our Name

By Charlie Haden

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2005
Track listing: Not In Our Name; This Is Not America; Blue Anthem; America The Beautiful (Medley); Amazing Grace; Goin' Home; Throughout; Adagio (from Adagio For Strings).

Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra: Not In Our Name

by Ken Franckling
October 12, 2005

Bassist Charlie Haden and pianist Carla Bley, two of the more eclectic and versatile people in jazz, make a great team as musical conceptualists as a they draw on a shared vision and Bley's knack for sometimes off-kilter large ensemble arranging. It has been 37 years since Charlie Haden and Carla Bley formed ...

Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra: Not In Our Name

by Chris May
August 31, 2005

This empowering masterpiece of an album succeeds brilliantly on at least three levels: as proof that instrumental jazz can be as powerful a protest music as the lyric-based Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition; as demonstration that at least one corner of the domestic American opposition to the Bush administration is in strong and resonant form; and as ...

Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra: Not In Our Name

by John Kelman
August 29, 2005

Whether or not music can have a social and/or political conscience in and of itself is often debated, but that it can respond to such conditions is unquestionable. From Dave Douglas' Witness, which stemmed from concerns about unilateral political action, to Pat Metheny Group's The Way Up, a considered response to the “dumbing down of society, ...

Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra: Not in Our Name

by Jim Santella
August 28, 2005

You can feel protest in the alto saxophone wails that Miguel Zenon delivers on “This is Not America." You can feel unity in the traditional melody of “Amazing Grace," as Charlie Haden “spreads the word" as bass soloist with Carla Bley comping on piano. You can feel the anticipation rising as a solitary trumpeter interprets “Goin' ...

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 ...

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 ...