Elvis Costello, the TV host of a music talk show Dec 2, 2008
Guests with the house band have included the guitarist Bill Frisell and the bassist Charlie Haden. "When I met him for our pitch, he said, 'I want this be to a show about genres of music that may have been forgotten, about artists that haven't been in the spotlight and people performing in a way they haven't before,"' said Laura Michalchyshyn, the general manager of the Sundance Channel, who considered Costello's Letterman gig a de facto audition. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Elvis Costello's series pumps up Sundance on Dec. 3 Dec 1, 2008
Additional musical special guests include: Davey Faragher, Pete Thomas and Steve Nieve of The Imposters; guitarist James Burton, who played with Elvis Presley; legendary producer, pianist, writer, arranger and singer Allen Toussaint; three-time Grammy Award winning jazz bassist Charlie Haden; jazz guitarist and composer Pat Metheny, who has collected 17 Grammy Awards; jazz pianist Bill Charlap; Larry Campbell and Tony Garnier of Bob Dylan's touring band, and violinist/vocalist Jenny Scheinman.... (Monsters and Critics.com)
Johnny Marr, the busiest Rock God of 2008 Nov 16, 2008
These nonfeatured guests include members of Costello's Imposters, legendary jazz bassist Charlie Haden and producer, arranger and performer (and Costello's The River in Reverse collaborator) Allen Toussaint. The Sundance Channel will air the first episode of Spectacle: Elvis Costello With. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
More of this story Aug 12, 2008
And the subtle beauty of bassist Charlie Haden, guitarist Bill Frisell and pianist Ethan Iverson was a festival highlight on the Pavilion stage. While Rollins delivered high points on the main stage, Soulive with funk master Fred Wesley played before a wild crowd at the Pavilion. (Newport Daily News, RI)
Smooth mix of jazz legends and new faces in Newport Aug 11, 2008
There was the tasteful, sympathetic interaction of bassist Charlie Haden, guitarist Bill Frisell, and pianist Ethan Iverson, who gathered just for the occasion. There was the infectious Latin jazz of Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos, the pulsating funk of Soulive, and the rock-band attitude of the Marco Benevento Trio, which covered songs by Led Zeppelin, My Morning Jacket, and Deerhoof. (Boston Globe)
Montreal jazz fest not the second coming, but still thrilling Jul 3, 2008
Hank Jones, who did a duo performance with bassist Charlie Haden at the Th. tre Jean-Duceppe on Sunday, is 89, yet his playing remains as fluid and witty as ever. (Globe and Mail)
Zappa's Mothers jazz up festival circuit Jun 24, 2008
Charlie Haden, playing to a packed house, dedicated his show Saturday night to peace in the world. On Friday in Vancouver, when the Grande Mothers hit the stage, it will be particularly satisfying for Ken Pickering, who has been the artistic director of the jazz festival since its inception more than 20 years ago. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Montreal Jazz Festival grows in size and stature Jun 15, 2008
Israeli sax-and-clarinet sensation Anat Cohen opens for Montreal regular Charlie Haden and his Quartet West (June 30). John Coltrane's pianist McCoy Tyner joins Coltrane's son Ravi in a tribute concert (July 1). (Boston Globe)
Coming attractions: Lumberjacks make the cut for History Channel series Feb 15, 2008
Charlie Haden brings together jazz and country for an album due from Decca Records in July. Ricky Skaggs, Bruce Hornsby, Vince Gill, Pat Metheny, B. (USA Today -- Life)
Jack Black expecting baby No. 2 Jan 7, 2008
Black and Haden, a cellist and the daughter of jazz great Charlie Haden, were married in 2006. They have a 1-year-old son. (MSNBC -- News)
Jack Black, wife expecting second child Jan 7, 2008
Charlie Haden, were married in 2006. They have a 1 -year-old son. (KHOU.com, TX)
They're singing the songs, but is anybody listening? Dec 31, 2007
In the past few years there have been anti-war songs by everyone from Pink, Pearl Jam, Molotov and Eminem to Nanci Griffith, R.E.M., jazz great Charlie Haden and even country-music icon Merle Haggard. (That's the same Merle Haggard whose 1970 song The Fightin' Side of Me ripped into hippies and anti-war protesters with zingers like: If you don't love it, leave it / Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin' / If you're runnin' down my country, man / You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
We're sorry we forgot all of these Nov 23, 2007
Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra (1969) Jazz albums rarely attract FBI surveillance. Revolutionary (in several senses) bassist Haden's courageous album did for its stance against US foreign policy under Nixon. (Guardian Unlimited)
The Verve Music Group Launches New Web Site Oct 30, 2007
Its unparalleled roster of current and catalog artists include Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Brazilian Girls, Michael Brecker, John Coltrane, Jamie Cullum, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Haden, Herbie Hancock, Billie Holiday, Diana Krall, Queen Latifah, Ledisi, Loreena McKennitt, Wayne Shorter, Nina Simone, Susan Tedeschi, and Lizz Wright. Source: The Verve Music Group. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Marcus Shelby marries lyrical life of Harriet Tubman with jazz Oct 17, 2007
"I try to write specifically for my band, cats I've been playing with for eight, nine years and whose sounds I know," says Shelby, who left an internship at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to accept a music scholarship at CalArts, where he studied bass with Charlie Haden and composition with James Newton. "Every composer who has the luxury of having a band is better off when they can write for specific musicians," Ellington being the classic example. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sounding the notes of protest Sep 5, 2007
The ever-changing lineup of Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra has been railing against oppression since the sixties ... Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra isn't exactly the steadiest gig in jazz ... Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra featuring Carla Bley performs at Mitchell Hall in Guelph, Ont. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
New CDs from Lil Mo, Patti Scialfa Sep 1, 2007
Charlie Haden and Antonio Forcione, Heartplay (Naim Records)This collaboration between bassist Charlie Haden and guitarist Antonio Forcione is an awfully appealing duet encounter. Heartplay is a lovely bit of acoustic jazz, comprising seven original tunes and a fine cover of Fred Herschs Childs Song. (MSNBC -- News)
All-star lineup keeps it classy at Tanglewood Jazz Festival Aug 31, 2007
It's quite the cross-generational as well as intercontinental pairing: At 89 and going strong, Jones has seen it all, and his piano has accompanied just about everyone who shaped the music, from Charlie Parker in the 1940s to Charlie Haden in the 1990s. Together with his late brothers, trumpeter Thad and drummer Elvin, Jones has had an almost incalculable impact on jazz history. (Boston Globe -- Living)
A bountiful crop of fall festivals Aug 30, 2007
This year's edition features performances by Anthony Braxton, Carla Bley and Charlie Haden, as well as by free-ranging filmmaker/pianist Michael Snow and brainy popsters Do Make Say Think. BEYONC. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Added attraction Aug 24, 2007
Charlie Haden: One of the most notable bassists in modern jazz history, Haden rose to fame in the late 1950s as a member of saxophonist Ornette Coleman's groundbreaking quartet. His affiliation with Coleman continues to this day, although Haden has been a noted band leader in his own right for nearly 40 years and has made outstanding albums with such greats as Keith Jarrett, Stan Getz and Pat Metheny. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
End of Summer Festivals in Chicago Aug 21, 2007
Features artists include Charlie Haden, John Medeski with John Scofield and Billy Martin and Chris Wood, Ernestine Anderson and Fred Wess, and the Mingus Bus Band. The Grant Park festival will also offer an art fair and refreshments. (Suite101.com)
Cook works and plays around town Aug 13, 2007
Hanging backstage at the JVC Jazz Festival, Bruce Hornsby confessed that bigshot bassist Charlie Haden is a little angry with him ... The problem, said Hornsby, is that Haden wanted to play on the record, called "Camp Meeting." "Charlie Haden's still [miffed] at me," he said. (Boston Globe)
Bruce Hornsby, mystery man Aug 10, 2007
Played with bassist Charlie Haden and saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Won a Grammy with saxophonist Branford Marsalis for "Barcelona Mona," a piece composed for the 1992 Olympics. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Weekend Guide Aug 10, 2007
BLUE NOTE:Through Sunday: Charlie Haden And. . (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Today in History August 6 Aug 6, 2007
Jazz musician Charlie Haden is 70. Actor-director Peter Bonerz is 69. (MSNBC -- Race)
Click for Full Story Aug 6, 2007
Jazzmusician Charlie Haden is 70. Actor-director Peter Bonerz is 69. (KWTX.com, TX)
Picks of the week Aug 3, 2007
Tonight and tomorrow night: Two jazz masters, bassist Charlie Haden and pianist Paul Bley, perform as a duo at the Regattabar. Acclaimed singer Karrin Allyson is at Scullers. (Boston Globe)
Summer Events Chicago Illinois Jul 8, 2007
Music by Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Dave Brubeck, Nancy Wilson Herbie Hancock, Charlie Haden, John Medeski, John Scofield, Billy Martin, Ernestine Anderson and Frank Wess, and the Mingus Big Band. 11 am to 9:30 pm daily. (Suite101.com)
* 'The style cannot compete with the idea' Jul 2, 2007
With Don Cherry on trumpet, Charlie Haden on double bass and Billy Higgins on drums, Coleman set the template, or lack of it, for what would become free jazz. Writing in Jazz Review, the critic Martin Williams argued that "what Ornette Coleman is doing on alto will affect the whole character of jazz music profoundly and pervasively." At the group's coming-out party, a residency at the Five Spot in New York in November 1959, Coleman polarized the crowd. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Wilco aboard May 21, 2007
After avant-garde guitarist Nels Cline (who has worked with the likes of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and jazz legend Charlie Haden) joined in 2004, many fans of Wilco's experimental side hoped the new album would continue in that direction, and so the comparatively straightforward Sky Blue Sky has left them disappointed. "We're getting the same reaction from those people as when the band introduced its experimental elements, and the folk contingent was outraged," Tweedy says. (The Age)
Comprehensive event listings May 20, 2007
Django Reinhardt Festival featuring Dorado Schmitt, Charlie Haden with Paul Bley, Jenny Schneinman Band with Nels Cline from Wilco, Sonny Landreth. Regent Theatre 7 Medford St., Arlington. (Boston Globe)
The Buzz: Jazz May 20, 2007
Charlie Haden with Paul Bley : at Regattabar, Aug. 3-4. Rounding out the bass master class is a visit from Haden, the polymath whose work stretches from avant-garde to Americana, with a quality of lyricism and insight that can only be described as true soul. (Boston Globe)
Summer preview May 20, 2007
Elsewhere, get a master class in bass thanks to Esperanza Spalding, Ron Carter, and Charlie Haden. N8. (Boston Globe)
Guide: Summer Jazz Season May 17, 2007
For example, legendary bassist/composer Charlie Haden, who turns 70 on Aug. 6, will lead his iconoclastic Liberation Orchestra, featuring the great Carla Bley, Aug. 5 at the Litchfield Festival, which this year will be Aug. 3 to 5 at the Goshen Fairgrounds ... Aug. 5: Rolando Matias and the Afro-Rican Ensemble featuring Bobby Matos; the Dave Stryker Organ Trio, Brazilian pianist Helio Alves and his trio, saxophonist Don Braden and his Contemporary Standards Ensemble, plus the Charlie Haden... (CTNow.com)
Cellist rocks the Mobius in Ashland May 11, 2007
Lindsay has also backed up bass legend Charlie Haden and saxophonist Michael Brecker in New Yorks Carnegie Hall and Small Revolution is receiving airplay on over 100 AAA, community, and NPR-affiliate radio stations. . (Yreka Siskiyou Daily News, CA)
In their name May 4, 2007
Last fall, he joined Alice Coltrane in three public concerts, her first in 25 years, accompanied by, among others, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Roy Haynes, both of whom played with his father. Ravi had already been central in bringing about Alice's 2004 album, "Translinear Light," which was hailed in the jazz world for both its musical strength and its historic significance. (Boston Globe)
For pianist Rubalcaba, finding and refining his sound are a lifelong gig Mar 31, 2007
One is a bass player, Charlie Haden. Though Haden is playing with neither at the moment, he was in Jarrett's quartet for much of the '70s, and he's one of the Americans who "discovered" Rubalcaba in Cuba. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Listening Post Mar 5, 2007
" Review: 2 1/2 stars (Jeff Simon) Ornette Coleman, "To Whom Who Keeps a Record" (Water). In the history of Grammy night surrealism, little has ever quite matched the sight of venerable jazz giant Ornette Coleman led out to center stage by a sheepish and almost apologetic Natalie Cole to give an award to Carrie Underwood (a fine young talent but one who wouldn't know Coleman's music from an Indonesian gamelan). Here, for glory's sake (and to explain why people want to give him "legend"... (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Revolutionary but still evolving Mar 4, 2007
"In order to play with Ornette, you have to listen to every note that he plays as you're playing, and you really learn about concentration and listening in that way. . . . Ornette approaches improvisation completely different than most people," said bassist Charlie Haden, a member of Coleman's original quartet that rocked the jazz establishment when it burst on the scene in 1959 with the aptly titled album "The Shape of Jazz to Come.". The jazz revolutionary has now become a respected elder... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Jazzman's Nod Feb 18, 2007
Byron plays clarinet on one track and bass clarinet on another, but he blows tenor sax on the 10 others, including one non-Walker tune, James Brown's "There it Is." The disc was produced by Byron's longtime friend and manager Hans Wendl, a Berkeley resident of German birth whose extensive credits include albums by Charlie Haden, Ravi Shankar, Peter Apfelbaum and Bill Frisell, plus Bay Area artists Todd Sickafoose, Beth Custer and Tin Hat. "I always loved Jr. Walker," Byron, 48, says in a... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Piano legend Henry Butler visits Baldwin Feb 16, 2007
While his early albums were jazz trio recordings featuring such top-notch instrumentalists as Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins, on Fivin Around in 1986, and Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette, on The Village two years later, Butler has increasingly turned to New Orleans music and the blues. His 1990 album, Orleans Inspiration , recorded with Leo Nocentelli of the Meters, was followed by Blues And More in 1992. (Truman Democrat, AR)
Legends Honored At Special Merit Awards Feb 12, 2007
He was paid tribute by frequent bandmate Charlie Haden, who said that playing with Coleman was, "The most exciting and rewarding moment of my life." When Coleman spoke, he grew deeply philosophical, musing about life, death and spirit before concluding that "Music is eternal.". The Doors' award was accepted by guitarist Robby Krieger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek's brother Rick, and singer Jim Morrison's sister Anne, though drummer John Densmore was present via a video "thank you" during which he... (eJazzNews)
This trio's motto could be all for one and one for all Feb 9, 2007
At 71, Peacock is a venerable figure on the bass, not unlike his contemporary Charlie Haden, and with a similarly broad discography, having worked with figures as far-out as the 1960s iconoclast Albert Ayler. Unlike Haden, however, Peacock did not emerge as a leader; in the past two decades, he has been best known as the bassist in Keith Jarrett's working group. (Boston Globe)
The Grammy Awards Feb 9, 2007
com - Award Central 2007 - Tussle and flow. com - Tussle and flow. (Variety)
He drums up support, playfully Feb 4, 2007
So well, in fact, that for more than a decade he has been sideman-of-choice for storied veterans such as Charlie Haden, Lee Konitz, and the late Dewey Redman. Wilson, 42, also leads two fine groups of his own, the Matt Wilson Quartet and Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts. (Boston Globe)
APPRECIATION Feb 3, 2007
" Yusef Lateef, saxophonist: I first saw Alice when I was with Dizzy Gillespie; it was the '40s, and she had the same beautiful reservedness that I always see her with. We were in southwest Detroit at the Westin Hotel after-hours session -- that was the '50s -- and she would come and sit in. Her brother, Ernie Farrow, worked with me, too. Sonny Stitt was there; Barry Harris, Paul Chambers, Hugh Lawson. I heard seriousness in Alice's playing, and that's what we all tried to do, but the object is... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Zenon's foursome feels the vibes Jan 29, 2007
Before showing up in Buffalo, Zenon had honed his chops via academia (Berklee College of Music and Manhattan School of Music) and the bandstand where he played in groups with Charlie Haden, Steve Coleman, Ray Barretto, Bobby Hutcherson and David Sanchez while occasionally serving to bolster the sax section of the world renowned Village Vanguard Orchestra and the Mingus Big Band. Pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Henry Cole also played with Barretto and Sanchez and,... (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Michael Brecker, 57; was leading tenor saxophonist Jan 15, 2007
Mr. Brecker made his solo debut, in 1986, with a self-titled album featuring guitarist Metheny, keyboardist Kenny Kirkland, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Jack DeJohnette. The release, showcasing slower mood pieces and quicker musical flights, was named Down Beat magazine's Jazz Album of the Year and was nominated for a Grammy Award for best solo jazz instrumental. (Boston Globe)
