Charlie Haden - Live At The Jazz Record Mart [RSD Black Friday 2025]

Unreleased music by the late Charlie Haden on solo bass, supervised by his son Josh. Recorded live at the legendary Jazz Record Mart in Chicago by Ken Christianson, a personal friend of Charlie’s, who also took the cover photo.

An immensely celebrated and forward-thinking bassist, Charlie Haden first emerged in the late '50s as one of free jazz's founding fathers. While he never fully settled into any of jazz's many stylistic niches, he certainly played his share of dissonant music, appearing with saxophonist Ornette Coleman on albums like 1959's landmark The Shape of Jazz to Come, and 1961's This Is Our Music. Similarly, he embraced the avant-garde, as on 1970's Liberation Music Orchestra, and on albums with influential artists like Roswell Rudd, Archie Shepp, and Alice Coltrane, among others. For the most part, however, he seemed drawn to consonance. It was a sound he championed on his '70s duet albums Closeness and Golden Number, and on albums with pianist Keith Jarrett, guitarist Egberto Gismonti, drummer Paul Motian, and others. His profoundly lyrical and harmonically simple aesthetic had as much to do with American folk traditions as with jazz. 
- Chris Kelsey, Allmusic.com

Tracklist

1. Introduction & Charlie Talks Weather
   
2. Charlie Talks About His Bass
   
3. Blues
   
4. Ron Carter And Such
   
5. Lonely Women (Old Joe Clark)
   
6. Intro For Song For The Wales
   
7. Song For The Wales
   
8. Play Some Thing Else
   
9. Be Bop
   
10. CES Talk & Other Events

UPC: 038153503918
Label: DELMARK
Release Date: 11.28.25
Format: Vinyl