Haunted Heart

Charlie Haden | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 28, 1992)
• Original Release Date: July 28, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000046L7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,858 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get This One, April 28, 2000

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Marc D. Thomas (Moab, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Haunted Heart (Audio CD)

When it comes to Charlie Haden & Quartet West, this is the one album to get. It seemlessly integrates the achingly beautiful vocal cuts from Jo Stafford, Jeri Southern, & Billie Holiday with the Quartet's own lyrical contributions. If you're looking for a jazz recording that's "smooth" without being boring, evocative, & melodically marvelous, get this one. And then track down vocal recordings by Jo Stafford, who sings "Haunted Heart" on this CD and was probably the greatest female American "pop" singer ever.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best of quartet west, November 30, 1998

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This review is from: Haunted Heart (Audio CD)

this album consists mostly of ballads that feature the tenor of ernie watts, whose playing is particularly terrific, and charlie haden's bass.dubbed into the album are vocals by singers like jo stafford that work beautifully with the quartet's ensemble playing. i really recommend this album.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Something borrowed, something noir, May 12, 2001

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Gavin Wilson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Haunted Heart (Audio CD)

During the 80s and 90s, Charlie Haden and former colleague Keith Jarrett devoted much of their output to creating new versions of old tunes. While Jarrett's trio delved into the back-catalogue to shed new light on old standards, Haden led a quartet which re-worked rarer but no less beautiful tracks. And Haden used a gimmick: tacking on the original (usually transcribed from an LP in Haden's own cherished collection) after Quartet West's version.

For me, 'Haunted Heart' is a dry run for its successor, 'Always Say Goodbye'. The critics at the time said that, great though the latter album was, Haden couldn't use the gimmick too often. I have no idea whether he read those reviews, but sadly we haven't heard those old recordings in any subsequent Quartet West CD.

As usual, there are many beautiful pieces here. Two of them are the compositions by pianist Alan Broadbent. (Don't worry -- he changed his specs by the time the band needed a new photograph for 'Now is the Hour'!) I wish Haden himself had contributed more tunes to this album -- when he sets his mind to it, he can write just as well as say, Pat Metheny.

You cannot go wrong by acquiring this album. Nearly all the Quartet West albums are outstanding. The only one to be slightly wary of is the most recent, 'The Art of the Song'.