July 11, 2014(2014-07-11) (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres
Free jazz
mainstream jazz
post-bop
hard bop
folk jazz
Occupation(s)
Musician, composer, bandleader, educator
Instrument(s)
Double bass
Years active
1957–2014
Formerly of
Ornette Coleman
Keith Jarrett
Pat Metheny
Hank Jones
Paul Motian
Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Alice Coltrane
John McLaughlin
Jim Hall
Carla Bley
Egberto Gismonti
Dewey Redman
Spouse(s)
Ellen David
(m. 1966; div. 1976)
[1][2]
Ruth Cameron
(m. 1984)
[3][4]
Musical artist
Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than 50 years. Building on the work of predecessors such as Jimmy Blanton and Charles Mingus, Haden helped to revolutionize the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz, evolving a style that sometimes complemented the soloist, and other times moved independently, liberating bassists from a strictly accompanying role, to allow more direct participation in group improvisation.
In the late 1950s, he was an original member of the ground-breaking Ornette Coleman Quartet. In 1969, he formed his first band, the Liberation Music Orchestra, featuring arrangements by pianist Carla Bley. In the late 1960s, he became a member of pianist Keith Jarrett's trio, quartet and quintet. In the 1980s, he formed his own band, Quartet West. Haden also often recorded and performed in a duo setting, with musicians including guitarist Pat Metheny and pianists Hank Jones and Kenny Barron.
German musicologist Joachim-Ernst Berendt wrote that Haden's "ability to create serendipitous harmonies by improvising melodic responses to Coleman's free-form solos (rather than sticking to predetermined harmonies) was both radical and mesmerizing. His virtuosity lies (...) in an incredible ability to make the double bass 'sound out'. Haden cultivated the instrument's gravity as no one else in jazz. He is a master of simplicity which is one of the most difficult things to achieve."[5]
^"'Live In The Present': Charlie Haden Remembered". www.npr.org.
^"Haden Triplets". www.hadentriplets.com.
^"Jazz icon Charlie Haden dies at 76". The Guardian. Associated Press. July 12, 2014. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
^Chinen, Nate (July 12, 2014). "Charlie Haden, Influential Jazz Bassist, Is Dead at 76". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
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