Charlie Haden

Charlie Haden was born on August 6, 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa. He started playing and singing country and folk songs with his family as part of The Haden Family. After a bout of polio, he stopped singing and focused on bass. He became a house bassist for the television show Ozark Jubilee. His first album, The Shape of Jazz to Come, released in 1959. In the 1960s, Haden toured California and Europe, playing in different bands and backing up other acts, becoming famous for his ability to improvise.

In 1970, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Music Composition, which allowed him to focus on experimental musical arrangements. He formed the Liberation Music Orchestra, or LMO, in response to the Vietnam War. The group earned many awards, including the prestigious Grand Prix du Disque in 1970. The LMO toured throughout the 1980s and 1990s, regularly releasing albums. Haden formed another band, Quartet West, in 1986, and began performing and releasing duets. He won a Latin Grammy in 2001 and was featured in a film about his life called Rambling Boy in 2009. He earned the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 and was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014. Haden died on July 11, 2014.

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