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Jan 14, 2012 (Weekend Edition Sunday) — The jazz bassist says there's nothing more illuminating than improvisation. His newest album, Come Sunday, is a collaboration with the late pianist Hank Jones.|
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 Charlie Haden's latest album is Come Sunday, a collaboration with the late pianist Hank Jones. (Courtesy of the artist) Charlie Haden: A Moment Of Clarityby NPR Staff Jan 14, 2012 (Weekend Edition Sunday) — The jazz bassist says there's nothing more illuminating than improvisation. His newest album, Come Sunday, is a collaboration with the late pianist Hank Jones.Comments |
Charlie Haden is a legend in jazz music. He started as a singer on his family's country radio show when he was just 2 years old. After losing his voice to polio as a teenager, he found a new voice by picking up the bass. That decision launched a career that spans jazz, country and gospel music. This week, Charlie Haden was inducted into the National Endowment for the Arts 2012 class of Jazz Masters. He couldn't attend the ceremony at Lincoln Center in New York, so his daughter went and gave the acceptance speech instead. But, speaking with NPR's Rachel Martin, Haden read an excerpt:
Charlie Haden's latest album, Come Sunday, is a collaboration with the late pianist Hank Jones. Jones died in 2010, three months after recording the 14 spirituals, hymns and folk songs that make up this new recording. Haden says the union of those styles with the cadences and rhythms of jazz was mostly a natural fit. "When you think about the art form, jazz, coming from this country, and you think about the underground railroad and all the music that came from that struggle, and then all the music coming over from Scotland and Ireland and England into the Appalachian and Ozark mountains — it's all one, really," he says. "And it can only have been born in this country." Copyright 2012 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. 9(MDAxNzgwMTg5MDEyMTQ4Nzc4MjdiNWVmMw004)) Source: NPR Copyright 2012 NPR - For Personal Use Only
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