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Increasingly mired in nostalgia, Charlie Haden's Quartet West plunges further into the dream world of old movies and postwar domesticity in this down-tempo album of ballads, this time with the vocal help of Shirley Horn and Bill Henderson on four numbers apiece. But if you must find a focal point, this album is mainly a showcase for the string chamber orchestra arrangements of Haden's pianist Alan Broadbent, who has turned in far more imaginative charts for this group than the velvety muzak heard here. Even classical piano pieces are fair game as Broadbent produces mournful orchestrations of Rachmaninoff's Moment Musical Op. 16, No. 3 in B Minor and Ravel's Prelude in A Minor. In a rare latter-day visit to the recording studio, Henderson is frequently off-key and shaky, though his distinctive blues timbre is intact. But the subtle, conversational Horn is right at home in this late-night lounge idiom, particularly when she revives an obscure Nat Cole single, Cy Coleman's "I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life." Tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts sounds fairly listless and bland in tone most of the time, Larance Marable is limited mostly to brushes, and Haden confines his robust tone mostly to simple basic accompaniment. And if you want real nostalgia, Haden reaches all the way back to his Midwestern childhood by singing the folk song "Wayfarin' Stranger" in a lost-sounding, threadbare voice. Frankly, this sounds like the work of a weary musician.
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Murray Adler, Interprète Instrumental, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Bernstein, ComposerLyricist - Ernie Watts, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Larance Marable, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Broadbent, Recording Arranger, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden, Producer, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Adolph Green, ComposerLyricist - Betty Comden, ComposerLyricist - Shirley Horn, Interprète Vocal, AssociatedPerformer - Ruth Cameron, Producer - Charlie Haden Quartet West, MainArtist
℗ 1999 Decca Records France
Larry Corbett, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Ernie Watts, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Larance Marable, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Broadbent, Interprète Instrumental, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Leonard, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Kessler, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Herbert Martin, ComposerLyricist - Bill Henderson, Interprète Vocal, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden Quartet West, MainArtist
℗ 1999 Decca Records France
Larry Corbett, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer, ComposerLyricist - Ernie Watts, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Larance Marable, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Broadbent, Interprète Instrumental, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Kessler, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden Quartet West, MainArtist
℗ 1999 Decca Records France
Murray Adler, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Jerome Kern, Composer - Ernie Watts, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Leo Robin, Author - Larance Marable, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Broadbent, Recording Arranger, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Shirley Horn, Interprète Vocal, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden Quartet West, MainArtist
℗ 1999 Decca Records France
Murray Adler, Interprète Instrumental, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Ernie Watts, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Larance Marable, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Broadbent, Recording Arranger, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Arthur Hamilton, ComposerLyricist - Bill Henderson, Interprète Vocal, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden Quartet West, MainArtist
℗ 1999 Decca Records France
Murray Adler, Interprète Instrumental, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Ernie Watts, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Larance Marable, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Broadbent, Recording Arranger, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charlie Haden, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden Quartet West, MainArtist
℗ 1999 Decca Records France
Murray Adler, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Ernie Watts, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - CY COLEMAN, ComposerLyricist - Larance Marable, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Broadbent, Recording Arranger, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Shirley Horn, Interprète Vocal, AssociatedPerformer - Joseph Allan McCarthy, ComposerLyricist - Charlie Haden Quartet West, MainArtist
℗ 1999 Decca Records France
Murray Adler, Interprète Instrumental, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Ernie Watts, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Mack Gordon, Author - Jimmy Van Heusen, Composer, ComposerLyricist - Larance Marable, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Broadbent, Recording Arranger, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Henderson, Interprète Vocal, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden Quartet West, MainArtist
℗ 1999 Decca Records France
Maurice Ravel, ComposerLyricist - Ernie Watts, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Larance Marable, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Broadbent, Interprète Instrumental, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden Quartet West, MainArtist
℗ 1999 Decca Records France
Murray Adler, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Jerome Kern, Composer - Ernie Watts, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Hammerstein II , Author - Larance Marable, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Broadbent, Recording Arranger, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Shirley Horn, Interprète Vocal, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden Quartet West, MainArtist
℗ 1999 Decca Records France
Murray Adler, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Ernie Watts, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Larance Marable, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Broadbent, Recording Arranger, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden, Composer, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Hamilton, Author - Shirley Horn, Interprète Vocal, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden Quartet West, MainArtist
℗ 1999 Decca Records France
Murray Adler, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Ernie Watts, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Larance Marable, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Broadbent, Recording Arranger, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Jeri Southern, ComposerLyricist - Charlie Haden Quartet West, MainArtist
℗ 1999 Decca Records France
Murray Adler, Interprète Instrumental, Music Director & Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Corbett, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Ernie Watts, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Larance Marable, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Broadbent, Arranger, Recording Arranger, Interprète Instrumental, Work Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden, Interprète Instrumental, Interprète Vocal, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Haden Quartet West, MainArtist - Don Palmer, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Carol Mukagawa, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1999 Decca Records France
Album review
Increasingly mired in nostalgia, Charlie Haden's Quartet West plunges further into the dream world of old movies and postwar domesticity in this down-tempo album of ballads, this time with the vocal help of Shirley Horn and Bill Henderson on four numbers apiece. But if you must find a focal point, this album is mainly a showcase for the string chamber orchestra arrangements of Haden's pianist Alan Broadbent, who has turned in far more imaginative charts for this group than the velvety muzak heard here. Even classical piano pieces are fair game as Broadbent produces mournful orchestrations of Rachmaninoff's Moment Musical Op. 16, No. 3 in B Minor and Ravel's Prelude in A Minor. In a rare latter-day visit to the recording studio, Henderson is frequently off-key and shaky, though his distinctive blues timbre is intact. But the subtle, conversational Horn is right at home in this late-night lounge idiom, particularly when she revives an obscure Nat Cole single, Cy Coleman's "I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life." Tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts sounds fairly listless and bland in tone most of the time, Larance Marable is limited mostly to brushes, and Haden confines his robust tone mostly to simple basic accompaniment. And if you want real nostalgia, Haden reaches all the way back to his Midwestern childhood by singing the folk song "Wayfarin' Stranger" in a lost-sounding, threadbare voice. Frankly, this sounds like the work of a weary musician.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 01:09:34
- Main artists: Charlie Haden Quartet West
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal Music Division Decca Records France
- Genre: Jazz
© 1999 Universal Music Jazz France ℗ 1999 Decca Records France
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