Charlie Haden Quartet West : Best Of Quartet West

2007 compilation pulled from Haden and his quartet's 20+ year career. Quartet West has been together since 1985, performing in LA and then recording their first album Charlie Haden Quartet West in 1986. In addition to the legendary bassist Haden, the group consisted of Ernie Watts on tenor saxophone, Alan Broadbent on piano and the great Billy Higgins on drums, Charlie's rhythm section mate in the original Ornette Coleman Quartet. Larence Marable replaced Higgins on drums on the subsequent recordings In Angel City (1988), Haunted Heart (1991), Always Say Goodbye (1993), Now is the Hour (1995) and The Art of the Song (1999). Always adept at making great records, Haden came to use samples from classic recordings from the likes of Jo Stafford and Stephane Grapelli and Django Reinhart to create aural landscapes that captured the flavor of LA from a bygone era.