''The Private Collection'' is a
live album
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by the American jazz bassist
Charlie Haden's Quartet West recorded at performances in 1988 and 1989 and released on the
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label.
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accessed July 28, 2014
Reception
The
Allmusic review by
Scott Yanow
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Biography
Yanow was born in New York City and grew up near Los Angeles.
Since 1974, he was a regular reviewer of many jazz styles an ...
stated, "Although one would not have necessarily predicted this direction for Charlie Haden's music in 1970, it has worked out quite well. This well-recorded two-fer features Haden's Quartet West at its best".
[Yanow, S]
Allmusic Review
accessed July 28, 2014 All About Jazz observed "The Private Collection finds Haden and Quartet West at its true best, with material spanning four decades but still sounding, twenty years later, as if it had been written yesterday".
[Kelman, J]
All About Jazz Review
accessed July 28, 2014
Track listing
''All compositions by Charlie Haden except as indicated''
''Disc One:''
# "Hermitage" (
Pat Metheny) - 12:45
# "Passport" (
Charlie Parker) - 15:34
# "Misery" (
Tony Scott) - 8:10
# "
Nardis" (
Miles Davis) - 13:00
# "Segment" (Parker) - 11:00
# "Farmer's Trust" (Metheny) - 7:18
# "Etudes" (
Johann Sebastian Bach) - 3:30
*Recorded at Charlie Haden's 50th Birthday Concert at At My Place in Santa Monica, CA on August 6, 1987
''Disc Two:''
# "Bay City" - 13:28
# "Farmer's Trust" (Metheny) - 9:21
# "Lonely Woman" (
Ornette Coleman
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Jazz: A Colle ...
) - 22:51
# "Silence" - 8:54
# "
Body and Soul" (
Edward Heyman,
Robert Sour,
Frank Eyton
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,
Johnny Green
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) - 8:20
# "Visa" (Parker) - 12:16
*Recorded at Webster University in St. Louis, MO on April 4, 1988
Personnel
* Charlie Haden –
bass
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Ernie Watts
Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone. He has worked with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. On Frank Zappa's ...
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saxophones
*
Alan Broadbent -
piano
*
Billy Higgins (Disc One),
Paul Motian (Disc Two) -
drums
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References
Charlie Haden live albums
2007 live albums
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