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Charlie Haden

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Birthday: Aug 6, 1937

Birthplace: Shenandoah, Iowa, USA

One of the founding fathers of the free jazz movement, double bassist Charlie Haden helped to change the shape of the genre as both a sideman and a leader with a profoundly lyrical technique which helped to liberate the instrument from its traditional rhythm section role. Haden began his performing career as a singer with his family's country and western band before a bout with polio forced him to switch his focus to the double bass. Following a stint with pianist Paul Bley, Haden joined saxophonist Ornette Coleman's ground-breaking quartet, where his folk-influenced style and impressive improvisational skills challenged the era's bebop jazz establishment. Haden cemented his revolutionary reputation when he formed The Liberation Music Orchestra, a pioneering big band renowned for championing various political causes, in the late '60s, and later went onto form Old and New Dreams with several of his fellow Coleman sidemen, along with Quartet West, a modernist outfit inspired by the music of 1940s film noir. Haden remained just as prolific in the 21st century, and picked up Grammy Awards for both of his collaborative albums with Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba. His children, including bassist Josh Haden and singer/musicians Petra, Tanya and Rachel Haden (who performed together as The Haden Triplets alongside their solo careers), continued their father's musical path. The onset of post-polio syndrome forced him to retire several years before his death in 2014, but by then his place in the pantheon of jazz greats had already well and truly been secured.

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Charlie Haden: Rambling Boy
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Charlie Haden: Rambling Boy 2010 Actor Keith Jarrett - The Art of Improvisation 2004 Self September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill 89% 1995 Self
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