Each month Peter Batten recommends a recording that jazz fans may wish to add to their personal library. Charlie Haden Quartet West – Haunted Heart My choice this month is a rather unusual session which you may have missed. Recorded in France in 1991 and later mixed in San Francisco, it features […]
Each month Peter Batten recommends a recording that jazz fans may wish to add to their personal library. Kenny Barron & Charlie Haden: Night and the City This is a wonderful live session which many fans seem to have missed. It was recorded in September 1996 at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York. Since […]
This week saw the passing of one of the colossi of jazz, Charlie Haden. All the major papers carried glowing obituaries, paying their respects to the man and his music. Bass players are seldom so eulogised; jazz bass players even less so, and despite having earned the universal respect and admiration justly accorded to […]