(SOUNDBITE OF ORNETTE COLEMAN'S "LONELY WOMAN") Here's Haden in 1959, featured on the groundbreaking Ornette Coleman Quartet album "The Shape Of Jazz To Come." This is Ornette Coleman's composition, "Lonely Woman," with Charlie Haden on bass. In 2008, he made an album with his three daughters, his wife and son, performing the kind of country music he sang as a child. In the '80s, he founded the group Quartet West, drawing inspiration from film noir and jazz and pop singers of the '40s and '50s. In 1969, he launched his own group, the Liberation Music Orchestra, which performed music inspired by liberation movements around the world. Although he was brought up on traditional music, he made his reputation in jazz, helping lead a musical revolution in the late 1950s and early '60s as a member of the Ornette Coleman Quartet. That's when he got serious about playing bass. He had to stop singing when polio affected his vocal chords. ![]() From the age of 2 until he was 15, he sang on his family's country music radio show. He was born in Shenandoah, Iowa, and grew up in Missouri. ![]() Haden played a remarkable range of music. We'll hear interviews spanning from 1983 to 2008. ![]() Today, we'll hear several interviews with Charlie Haden, the preeminent bass player of his generation and one of the greatest bass players in the history of jazz. ![]() This week, we're featuring some of our favorite music interviews from our archive.
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