Charlie Haden

Artist:  Charlie Haden
Birth Name:  Charles Edward Haden
Born:  August 6, 1937.  Shenandoah, Iowas, USA
Died:  July 11, 2014 (Aged 76).  Los Angeles, California, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Free Jazz, Mainstream Jazz, Post Bop, Hard Bop, Folk Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Standards
Occupation:  Musician, Composer, Bandleader
Instruments:  Double Bass

Charlie Haden was an American Jazz Double Bass Player, Bandleader and Composer.  He was an original member of the ground-breaking Ornette Coleman Quartet, and in the late 1960s, he became a member of Pianist Keith Jarrett's Trio, Quartet and Quintet.  In the 1980s, he formed his band Quartet West, he also often recorded and performed with musicians including Guitarist Pat Metheny and Pianist Hank Jones.

Artist:  Charlie Haden's Quartet West
Title:  Sophisticated Ladies  (2010)
Genre:  Jazz, Free Jazz, Mainstream Jazz, Post Bop, Hard Bop, Folk Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Standards
Label:  EmArcy Records
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  If I'm Lucky (feat. Melody Gardot)  (5:40)
 2.  Sophisticated Lady  (4:29)
 3.  Ill Wind  (feat. Norah Jones)  (4:25)
 4.  Today I Am A Man  (5:23)
 5.  My Love And I (feat. Cassandra Wilson) (4:14)
 6.  Theme From "Markham"  (4:40)
 7.  Let's Call It A Day (feat. Ruth Cameron)  (5:52)
 8.  Angel Face  (4:09)
 9.  A Love Like This (feat. Renee Fleming)   (5:13)
10. My Old Flame  (5:36)
11. Goodbye (feat. Diana Krall)  (5:48)
12. Wahoo  (4:53)

Personnel:

Charlie Haden:  Bass
Ernie Watts:  Tenor Saxophone
Alan Broadbent:  Piano
Rodney Green:  Drums

Special Guests:

Melody Gardot:  Vocals on Track 1
Norah Jones:  Vocals on Track 3
Cassandra Wilson:  Vocals on Track 5
Ruth Cameron: Vocals on Track 7
Renee Fleming:  Vocals on Track 9
Diana Krall:  Vocals on Track 11

Alan Broadbent:  String Orchestra Arrangement And Conducting on Tracks:  1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11

Sophisticated Ladies is an album by Charlie Haden's Quartet West, released in 2010 by EmArcy Records, featuring Special Guests:  Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall, Melody Gardot, Norah Jones, Renee Fleming and Ruth Cameron, and a String Orchestra arranged and conducted by Alan Broadbent.