Silence (Charlie Haden album)

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1989 studio album by Charlie Haden

Silence

Studio album by

Charlie Haden

Released| 1989
Recorded| November 11–12, 1987
Genre| Jazz
Length| 44:06
Label| Soul Note
Producer| Giovanni Bonandrini
Charlie Haden chronology
| Etudes
(1988)  | Silence
(1989)  | Dialogues
(1990)

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Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [2]

Silence is an album by the American jazz bassist Charlie Haden recorded in 1987 and released on the Italian Soul Note label two years later.[3] The album features West Coast jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, and was recorded six months before Baker's death. Three of the six songs on the album--"My Funny Valentine", "'Round Midnight", and "Conception"—were regular features in Baker's concerts at the time. A fourth song, "Visa", was a bebop composition written by Charlie Parker, a musician Baker played with early in his career. Joining Haden and Baker on the album are drummer Billy Higgins and pianist Enrico Pieranunzi.

The album is similar in musical programming and band format to the series of albums Haden made with his Quartet West group. As with the original Quartet West group, Silence features a jazz quartet anchored by Haden and Higgins. The bassist and drummer worked together sporadically from the late 1950s (when both were members of Ornette Coleman's band) through the 1990s. Silence was recorded between the first and second Quartet West albums. In 1990, the trio of Haden, Higgins and Pieranunzi recorded Haden's First Song album for the same label.

## Track listing

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All compositions by Charlie Haden except as indicated

1. "Visa" (Charlie Parker) - 5:48
2. "Silence" - 8:45
3. "Echi" (Enrico Pieranunzi) - 6:09
4. "My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:39
5. "'Round About Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 11:36
6. "Conception" (George Shearing) - 6:00

* Recorded at CMC Studio in Roma, Italy on November 11 and 12, 1987

## Covers

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Brazilian synthpop band Metrô covered "Silence" on their 2002 album Déjà-Vu.

## Personnel

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* Charlie Haden – bass
* Chet Baker – trumpet
* Enrico Pieranunzi – piano
* Billy Higgins – drums[4]

## References

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1. ^ "Silence - Chet Baker, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Enrico Pieranunzi | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 625\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
3. ^ Soul Note discography accessed December 1, 2011
4. ^ American National Biography. Oxford University Press. December 20, 1998. ISBN 9780195222029 – via Google Books.

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Charlie Haden

Studio albums|

* As Long as There's Music (1978)
* Closeness (1976)
* The Golden Number (1977)
* Gitane (1978)
* Mágico (1980)
* Folk Songs (1981)
* Etudes (1988)
* Silence (1989)
* Dialogues (1990)
* First Song (1992)
* Steal Away (1995)
* Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) (1997)
* None But the Lonely Heart (1997)
* Nocturne (2001)
* American Dreams (2002)
* Nightfall (2004)
* Land of the Sun (2004)
* Heartplay (2006)
* Come Sunday (2012)

Live albums|

* Time Remembers One Time Once (1981)
* The Montreal Tapes: with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell (1994)
* The Montreal Tapes: with Paul Bley and Paul Motian (1994)
* Night and the City (1996)
* The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (1997)
* The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian (1997)
* The Montreal Tapes: with Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Paul Motian (1997)
* In Montreal (2001)
* The Montreal Tapes: Tribute to Joe Henderson (2003)
* Long Ago and Far Away (2007)
* Mágico: Carta de Amor (2012)
* Tokyo Adagio (2015)

Liberation Music
Orchestra albums|

* Liberation Music Orchestra (1970)
* The Ballad of the Fallen (1983)
* Dream Keeper (1990)
* Not in Our Name (2005)
* Time/Life (2016)

Old and New
Dreams albums|

* Old and New Dreams (1977)
* Old and New Dreams (1979)
* Playing (1981)
* A Tribute to Blackwell (1990)

Quartet West
albums|

* Quartet West (1987)
* In Angel City (1988)
* Haunted Heart (1992)
* Always Say Goodbye (1994)
* Now Is the Hour (1996)
* The Art of the Song (1999)
* The Private Collection (2007)
* Sophisticated Ladies (2010)

Related articles|

* Discography
* Josh Haden
* Spain [band]
* The Blue Moods of Spain
* Petra Haden
* Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out
* Rachel Haden
* Tanya Haden
* Let's Go Sailing
* The Haden Triplets

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