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Vote: | All the Hadens in my background are from Missouri and the Ozarks-but everybody's related somehow! Most of my family members and ancestors were country or folk musicians. |
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Vote: | As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. |
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Vote: | I always approach music by thinking about the person I'm playing with and listening to the way they play and trying to enhance whatever is going on. |
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Vote: | I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could. |
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Vote: | I do workshops all over the world. I also teach here at the California Institute of The Arts in Valencia, CA near Los Angeles. |
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Vote: | I got into jazz because I had no choice-I loved it, and the bass makes everything sound better. |
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Vote: | I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it. |
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Vote: | I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life. |
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Vote: | I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off. |
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Vote: | I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music. |
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Vote: | I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician. |
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Vote: | I've accepted these ear problems as part of my being. In other words, I tell myself that I've been this way since I was born. I wear earplugs when I play that cut out 32 db's, as well as using plexiglass baffles. |
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Vote: | I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect. |
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Vote: | It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there. |
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Vote: | James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy. |
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Vote: | Oh man, I could do better on everything. I really couldn't tell you. I just gotta write more music, I know that. |
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Vote: | Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer. |
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Vote: | The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything. |
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Vote: | The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life. |
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Vote: | There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice. |
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Vote: | We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about. |
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Vote: | When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise. |
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Charles Edward Haden (born August 6, 1937) is a jazz double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman.
Haden was born in Missouri, and raised in a musical family, which often performed together on the radio playing country music and American folk songs. Haden made his professional debut as a singer when he was two years old, and continued singing with his family until he contracted a mild form of polio when he was 14. The polio damaged his throat muscles and vocal chords, and as a result, Haden was unable to control his pitch while singing. A few years before contracting polio, Haden had become interrested in jazz, and began playing his older brother's double bass.
Haden moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1950's, and quickly began playing professionally, including stints with pianist Hampton Hawes and saxophonist Art Pepper.
Haden became famous playing with Ornette Coleman in the late 1950s and 1960s when Coleman was starting his experimental stage culminating in the album The Shape of Jazz To Come. This album was released to much critical acclaim and skepticism at the time, and Haden himself remarked that the harmolodic style of playing was so confusing to him at first that he resigned himself to repeating Coleman's lines on the bass. It was only later that he had enough confidence to start playing his own lines during the performances.
Besides his association with Ornette Coleman, Haden was also a member of Keith Jarrett's trio and "American quartet" from 1967 to 1976 with Paul Motian and Dewey Redman. He played in the collective Old and New Dreams.
He went on to lead the Liberation Music Orchestra in the 1970s. Their music was very experimental, exploring the realms of free jazz and political music at the same time; specifically, the LMO's first album focused on the Spanish Civil War. This thematic exploration of genres of music not typically considered to be a jazz standard becomes one of his signature approaches with his Quartet West.
The Charlie Haden Quartet West, started in 1987, consisted of Ernie Watts on sax, Alan Broadbent on piano and Larance Marable on drums. This group featured lush, romantic arrangements by Broadbent, often with strings, and was the recipient of many awards. With largely the same musicians Haden went on to explore spiritual hymns with Hank Jones, American folk music in the American Hymns, film noir music in Always Say Goodbye, and Cuban folk music in Nocturne.
In the late 1997 he collaborated on a duet with Pat Metheny on the guitar, exploring the music that influenced them in their childhood experiences in Missouri with what they call Americana music. This collaboration culminated in the album Beyond the Missouri Skies (Short Stories) and their worldwide tours together.
Charlie Haden is known for his signature lyrical bass lines, and is one of the most respected jazz bassists and jazz composers today. His daughters, Petra and Rachel Haden, are both musicians, formerly of That Dog; Petra has since joined indie rock group The Decemberists.
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