Bassist Charlie Haden made no distinction among forms, applying the same spare, intuitive approach to jazz, Iberian music, and the folk tunes his family performed when he was young. In his many years at CalArts, Haden taught a generation the value of choosing and articulating every note, a philosophy he exemplified in hundreds of recordings as a sideman, and as the leader of his own groups, such as his own Quartet West and the sprawling Liberation Music Orchestra. He is remembered strongly as an early ally of Ornette Coleman, with whom he invented new ways of hearing the bass — as a foundation, a flexible partner and a creator of improvisational space.
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LA Creators
LA Creators: Horace Tapscott
Arrived Los Angeles 1943, died here 1999
LA Creators: Don Cherry
Arrived Los Angeles 1940, died 1995
LA Creators: Charles Mingus
Raised from infancy in Los Angeles, left 1949, died 1979.
LA Creators: Eric Dolphy
Born in Los Angeles 1928, left 1960, died 1964.