Longtime friends and jazz legends, bassist Charlie Haden and late pianist Hank Jones, created an inspired collection of spirituals, hymns and folk songs that represent?
Come Sunday is the second installment of traditional songs and spirituals from jazz veterans Charlie Haden and Hank Jones. I don't prefer it to the first album the duo released, Steal Away, but it's an enjoyable listen for fans of this genre. WATCH THE REVIEW

Two legendary musicians (one a keyboard master, the other a singular double bassist) gracefully interpret traditional hymns and spirituals. Listen closely and you'll be transported to the front pew of an inviting, timeworn church. Hank Jones (pictured) and Charlie Haden's album, Come Sunday, comes out Jan. 10. Read more »
C.O.D. BELLS AND CHIMES Ornette Coleman Ornette at 12 Impulse : 1968 OC, alto, violin; Dewey Redman, tenor; Charlie Haden, bass; Denardo Coleman (credited as "Ornette Denardo"), drums. You're going to like this or you're not. But try not to be put off by the Curious Case of the Twelve-Year-Old Drummer; there's more here than that red herring. Some great soloing by Dewey Redman, for one thing. [...]

Bassist Charlie Haden was there at the very beginning of this thing we call "free" jazz. He played on Ornette Coleman's seminal The Shape of Jazz to Come in 1959. Live at Birdland (released this June) shows the other side of what "free" can mean. Saxophonist Lee Konitz, pianist Brad Mehldau, drummer Paul Motian, and Haden present beautiful deconstructions of some classic jazz standards (including "Lover Man" made famous by Billie Holiday, "I Fall in Love Too Easily" sung by Frank Sinatra, and "Oleo" by Sonny Rollins). This performance shows four great improvisers exploring the limits [...]

A December 2009 date in New York: Standards but not standard playing. The 83-year-old alto saxophonist Lee Konitz is a man out of time. He came of age amidst bebop, he seemed to embody the "cool" sound of the 1950s, and he later embraced a singular style of '60s or '70s "free jazz", yet he isn't limited by any of those identities. In recent years, Konitz has made it clearer than ever that pigeonholing him (or, critics like me be damned, any artist, really) is a mistake,...
The Live At Birdland release captures two days worth of performances by a group consisting of Konitz (alto saxophone), Mehldau (piano), Haden (double-bass) and Motian (drums). It is an important album as it shows the ease in which a talented group can move between a studio and a live setting, with each of the tracks [...]

Al Di Meola New Album - Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody + Summer European tour dates Guitar great Al Di Meola releases new works with his World Sinfonia Band Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody Buy CDs, MP3s, more: Al Di Meola on Amazon.com Al Di Meola on Amazon.co.uk Following the much ballyhooed [...]
The ironic thing is that these distaff vocalists highlight just how good the instrumentalists are Bassist and bandleader Charlie Haden has been involved in many strange projects. He spent his early days in the '60s as a player in Ornette Coleman free jazz band, followed by work in pianist Keith Jarrett's American trio. His '70s work included gigging with Carla Bley in the experimental and political Liberation Music Orchestra, and one-off's with fusion jazz guitarist John McLaughlin and avant-garde composer Yoko Ono. In the '80s and '90s, Haden performed with...
It's hard to believe that it's been 20 years since Over The Rhine issued its debut album. The Ohio-based husband-and-wife duo of multi-instrumentalists/vocalis ts Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist have marked the anniversary with new album The Long Surrender, which was produced by Joe Henry at his Garfield House home studio and features an assortment of [...]

Regular readers know that I suffer from chronic ear problems brought on by congenitally small eustachian tubes, coupled with a permanent, high-pitched half-hissing, half-ringing noise which worsens significantly when my ears are blocked. Listening to music in this state, I once wrote, is like trying to hear the good stuff underwater, and surrounded by keening whales . What I may not have mentioned before is that several years ago I made the decision to manage these two related medical issues by having tubes installed in both of my ears - a [...]
This is one of the most appealingly tender albums I have heard in a long time.

Filed under: All About Jazz For the music obsessed, every year has a musical identity that's colored by the new albums and songs that receive steady play on our various devices. I generally love doing these year-end things because it gives me a chance to go back to pieces that jumped out at the time. More than that, it's interesting to see how the music ages - some stuff sounds better now than it did at the time, other stuff that sounded great in [...]

ANGELA'S ANGEL 1 Grachan Moncur III and Jazz Composer's Orchestra Echoes of Prayer JCOA : 1975 GM, trombone, voice; Carla Bley, piano; Leroy Jenkins, violin; Carlos Ward, sax, flute; Hannibal Marvin Peterson, trumpet; Stafford Osborne, trumpet; Janice Robinson, trombone; Jack Jeffers, trombone; Perry Robinson, clarinet; Mark Elf, guitar; Keith Marks, flute; Cecil McBee, bass; Charlie Haden, bass; Jeanne Lee, vocals; Mervine Grady, vocals; Titos Sompa, congas, talking drum; Coster Massamba, Frederick Simpson, Malonga Quasquelourd, Jakuba Abiona, percussion; Beaver Harris, drums. [...]
Stop. Drink coffee. Reflect. Pat Metheny - Guitar - Jazz - Music - Guitarist
Jarrett and Haden reunite after 30 years. Keith Jarrett - Music - Art - Reviews - Piano

BROWN RICE DEGI-DEGI Don Cherry Don Cherry A&M/Horizon : 1976 DC, trumpet, electric piano, voice; Charlie Haden, bass; Billy Higgins, drums; Frank Lowe, tenor sax; Ricky Cherry, electric piano; on Rice only: Bunchie Fox, electric bongos; Verna Gillis, voice. If this site has a musical lodestar, it's probably best personified by Don Cherry . Global traveler, fan of the polyglot (the [...]
Decade: 2 (2002-2003)the unknown bomber, Baghdad, 2003Verses 4,5,6; chapters 8,9,10.Ivor Cutler, Once a Fortnight.The Mekons, Thee Olde Trip to Jerusalem.The New Pornographers, The Laws Have Changed.Auguries and imprecations: Ivor Cutler, the last eccentric: recorded in 2002, dead in 2006; Mekons on OOOH!, their best LP of the decade, 2002; New Pornographers on 2003's Electric Version ("What

by Chris O' Leary . It's the first and only record I ever heard of that all the squares dig as well as the jazz people, and I don't understand how and why, because I was making notes all the way. I wasn't making a melody for the squares. -Coleman Hawkins "Body and Soul," jazz standard of standards, turns eighty years old in 2010. It is jazz's benchmark, warhorse, rite of passage, litmus test: I can't think of a single major jazz musician, post-1930, who hasn't taken it on, from Roy [...]
Given the unmistakeable stench of revolution in the air (and I don't just mean in Iran, even the Guardian were calling for it here in the UK), now seemed to be a good occasion for an assembling of Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. As he explained at the start of the show, he first felt [...]