Charlie Haden was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator known for his deep, warm sound, and whose career spanned more than fifty years. In the late 1950’s, Haden was an original member of the ground-breaking Ornette Coleman Quartet.
Haden revolutionized the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz. About him, German musicologist Joachim-Ernst Berendt commented, “His ability to create serendipitous harmonies by improvising melodic responses to Coleman’s free-form solos was both radical and mesmerizing.
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