Composer
Charlie Haden
Biography
Charlie Haden (1937–2014) was an American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader. His work with Ornette Coleman helped establish a more independent, melodic role for the bass in collective improvisation.
In 1969 he founded the Liberation Music Orchestra, collaborating with arranger Carla Bley to bring experimental jazz into dialogue with political and folk song. He also worked extensively with Keith Jarrett. Haden founded the Jazz Studies programme at the California Institute of the Arts in 1982 and was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2012.