Charles Edward Haden (1937 – 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than 50 years. Haden revolutionized the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz, evolving a way of playing that sometimes complemented the soloist, and sometimes moved independently, to help liberate bass players from a strictly accompanying role, to becoming more direct participants in group improvisation
1970's US re-issue on Atlantic with laminated and die-cut gatefold sleeve with embossed blue stereo, of the 1961 album featuring Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden, Freddie Hubbard and Ed Blackwell. With original innersleeve.
1974 US re-issue on Atlantic with un-laminated and no die-cut gatefold sleeve of the 1961 album featuring Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden, Freddie Hubbard and Ed Blackwell. With original innersleeve.
1981 US re-issue on Atlantic's "Jazzlore" series of the 1971 album with recordings from 1959/1960 featuring Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Haden, Freddie Hubbard and Ed Blackwell.
Sole edition of the 1983 French LP on Musidisc's "Jazz Anthology" series with recordings from the early 1960's featuring Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell.
1980 re-issue on JCOA Records of the 1968 double-album by Michael Mantler's big band featuring Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva, Charlie Haden, Kent Carter, Andrew Cyrille, Carla Bley, Steve Lacy and Gato Barbieri an…
1980 re-issue on JCOA Records of the 1968 double-album by Michael Mantler's big band featuring Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva, Charlie Haden, Kent Carter, Andrew Cyrille, Carla Bley, Steve Lacy and Gato Barbieri an…
Intimate duo standards from pianist Keith Jarrett and bassist Charlie Haden, from the Jasmine sessions. Unhurried and conversational, two old friends; a poignant and beautiful farewell.
Widely regarded as one of Pat Metheny's most inspired recordings and now considered a classic of instrumental and improvised music, *80/81* unveiled a bold new dimension of the then-26-year-old guitarist's sonic world. Released in 1980, this groundbr…
This record marks a turning point in jazz history. It may be the earliest recorded example of what Ornette Coleman later called "free jazz," and it represents the first rumblings of the revolutionary movement which eventually shifted jazz thinking aw…
*2023 stock* "The arrangements by Carla Bley are miracles of dynamics, rising and falling in volume and velocity and the awe-inspiring balance of collective ensembles improvising freely through swellings and contractions of individual voices entering…
Masahiko Togashi was a pivotal figure in the development of the Japanese free jazz scene in late 60s. Percussionist and composer, he lost the use of the legs in an accident which nevertheless didn’t not prevent him from continuing an astonishing care…
Live double album by the trio of Jan Garbarek (saxophones), Egberto Gismonti (guitars, piano) and Charlie Haden (double bass), recorded at the Amerika Haus in Munich in April 1981 and first released by ECM in 2012.
Duo album by Keith Jarrett (piano) and Charlie Haden (double bass): eight standards and love songs recorded in March 2007 at Cavelight Studio, Jarrett's home studio in New Jersey. Produced by Jarrett and Manfred Eicher, released 2010.