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Jazz Musician of the Day: Charlie Haden

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All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Haden's birthday today!

“No other instrument in jazz is more essential than the bass, both backbone and heartbeat, and Haden is its master.” (Francis Davis /August, 2000 issue of The Atlantic Monthly) Time Magazine has hailed jazz legend Charlie Haden as “one of the most restless, gifted, and intrepid players in all of jazz.” Haden\'s career which has spanned more than fifty years has encompassed such genres as free jazz... Read more.

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