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Jazz Bassist Charlie Haden

The guest is jazz bassist Charlie Haden. He grew up in music: his family sang country music on the radio and at the Grand Ole Opry. He sang from the age of 2 until 15. He took up bass as a teen and became an original member of Ornette Coleman’s groundbreaking Quartet which revolutionized jazz and engendered controversy in and out of the jazz community. He later played in Keith Jarrett’s trio and quartet. Haden debuted as a leader with his Liberation Music Orchestra, later founded his Quartet West, playing the music of the 1940s. In between he played with all names of musicians: Hank Jones, Kenny Baron, Pat Metheny, Chet Baker and Billy Higgins. Late in his career he began singing again, and recorded his singing on a number of CDs. Haden died in 2014.

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