Quartet West
Occupation
- Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone: Ernie Watts
- Piano: Alan Broadbent
- Bass: Charlie Haden
- Drums: Billy Higgins
Quartet West is a jazz album by Charlie Haden, recorded in two sessions on 22 and December 23, 1986 in Los Angeles. Haden Quartet West called simultaneously Californian band.
The album
Charlie Haden Quartet West was in the 1980s and 1990s, a successful ensemble of bassist, who had previously made a name as an avant-garde bassist in Ornette Coleman's band and with his Liberation Music Orchestra. After his return to the U.S. west coast in 1979 and the Quartet West, he returned to a more bop -influenced, more closer to the mainstream sound. In addition to two original compositions Haden ( In the Moment, Bay City and the solo Taney County), the band played two songs from the repertoire of Ornette Coleman's ( The Good Life and The Blessing ), the Pat Metheny number Hermitage (from Metheny's ECM album New Chautauqua, 1979), as well as jazz standards Body and Soul, My Foolish Heart, Billy Strayhorn's Passion Flower and Charlie Parker's passport. The music of the album (and also of any subsequent productions of the Quartet West ) to atmospheric summon the character of the 1940s, the years of Haden's childhood and his involvement in the radio show of his family. Haden dedicated his composition Bay City the mystery writer Raymond Chandler and quoted in the liner notes a passage from his book Farewell, my favorite from 1940 that begins with:
Album Review
Stacia Proefrock awarded the album in Allmusic, the maximum rating of five stars and wrote:
In her review of Richard Cook and Brian Morton denote (1993 ), the first album of the Quartet West as the best:
The title
- Charlie Haden: Quartet West ( Verve Records - 831673-1 )
More Albums of Quartet West
- Charlie Haden 's Private Collection, Volume 2 ( Naim, 1987), the same occupation
- In Angel City ( Verve, 1988), with Lawrence Marable and Alex Cline instead of Billy Higgins
- Haunted Heart ( Verve, 1990)
- Always Say Goodbye ( Verve, 1993)
- Now Is The Hour ( Verve Gitanes/1995 )
- The Art Of Song ( Verve Gitanes/1999 ), with Shirley Horn, Bill Henderson
- Sophisticated Ladies (2010)