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Charlie Haden Biography

Charles Edward "Charlie" Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator known for his deep, warm sound, and whose career spanned more than fifty years. In the late 1950s, Haden was an original member of the ground-breaking Ornette Coleman Quartet.

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I told my students the other day in class, which is about the spirituality and creativity as much as it is about music. I said, 'If you're walking down the street and you see a baby carriage, and there's a baby in the carriage; you look down and your eyes meet the eyes of the baby. The baby looks at you: That's the kind of moment you're in when you're playing.

Baby, Class, Creativity, Day, Eye, Spirituality

The whole underlying theme for the new music. . . is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

Communicate, Honest, Quality, Theme, Trying

I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you’re in … because when you improvise you’re in right now. You’re not in yesterday or tomorrow—you’re right in the moment. Being in that moment really gives you a perspective of life that you never get at any other time as far as learning about your ego… You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Ego, Magic, Perspective, Thinking, Time, Yesterday

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

Adding, Collection, Done, Records, Song

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.

Play, Rehearsing, Tunes, Way, Writing

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

Consciousness, Creating, Levels, Midst, Person

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who arent exposed to creative music.

Exposed, Give, Heart, People, Play

There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

Boston, Nice, People, Planet, Study, Workshop

The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self. And that's why, when I put down my instrument, that's when the challenge starts, because to learn how to be that kind of human being at that level that you are when you're playing - that's the key, that's the hard part.

Art, Challenge, Challenges, Human, Lucky, Starts

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.

Art, Arts, Band, People

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

Duets, Format, Silence, Special, Way

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

Creative, Creativity, Getttin, Struggle, Used

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them.

Away, Discovering, Music, Teaching, Want

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

Creating, Level, Life, Music, Thinking, Words

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

Art, Consciousness, Creative, Level, Music, Person

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Concerned, Human, Human Beings, Humans, Life, See

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

Art, Creating, Jazz, Music, Passion, Spontaneity