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Charlie Haden. Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than fifty years. Haden helped to revolutionize the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz, evolving a style that sometimes complemented the soloist, and other times moved ...
Jazz fusion bassist Jaco Pastorius was known for his expressive fretless electric bass playing. In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus (1922–1979) and free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden (1937–2014).
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history, [1] with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Max ...
Money Jungle is a studio album by pianist Duke Ellington with double bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach. It was recorded on September 17, 1962, and released in February 1963 by United Artists Jazz. [1] All but one of the compositions were written by Ellington, with four of the seven on the original LP being recorded for the first time ...
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers Jr. (April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969) [1] was an American jazz double bassist. A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, he has become one of the most widely-known jazz bassists of the hard bop era. [2] He was also known for his bowed solos.
Jazz bass is the use of the double bass or electric bass guitar to improvise accompaniment ("comping") basslines and solos in a jazz or jazz fusion style. Players began using the double bass in jazz in the 1890s to supply the low-pitched walking basslines that outlined the chord progressions of the songs. From the 1920s and 1930s Swing and big ...
Last Dance. Last Dance is an album by American pianist and composer Keith Jarrett and American jazz double bass player Charlie Haden —long-term collaborators—recorded at Jarrett's home studio in March 2007 and released on ECM in June 2014 containing outtakes and two alternate takes from Jasmine, released four years previously.
Jerry Jemmott. William Manuel Johnson. Jeff Johnson (bass player) Marc Johnson (musician) Reggie Johnson (musician) Brad Jones (bassist) Eddie Jones (jazz musician) Sam Jones (musician) Papa John Joseph.