Charlie Haden

Biography

Charlie Haden was a pioneering American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer, and educator whose career spanned over fifty years. He revolutionized the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz, evolving a style that often complemented and sometimes moved independently from soloists. A founding member of Ornette Coleman's Quartet in the late 1950s, Haden also formed his own bands, including Liberation Music Orchestra and Quartet West.