Artist:Charlie Haden with Michael Brecker
Song:Nightfall
Album:American Dreams
Sometimes when I am looking for video clips, I encounter clips like this one from the late lamented A&E Sunday morning series Breakfast with the Arts. Boy, do I miss that show. I wondered if Charlie Haden had ever recorded with Michael Brecker and Brad Mehldau. Sometimes yes, sometimes the collaboration was just for TV. Of course Haden seemed to record with everyone in the 90s and 00s. It turns out he did record with Brecker and Mehldau in 2002. Haden recorded a lot of duet albums. I have featured a couple of them already. Haden first recorded with Michael Brecker on Brecker's 1987 solo debut. And he also appeared on Brecker's 2000 album Nearness of You: The Ballad Book. It doesn't look like Haden had ever recorded with Mehldau. The drummer is Brian Blade and it looks like this was the only time the two worked together. Nightfall was first recorded on Haden's 2001 album Nocturne featuring pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and drummer Ignacio Berroa. That album won a Best Latin Jazz Album Grammy. When I looked Nightfall up on Google Video, the clip with Brecker and Mehldau came up. American Dreams was Haden's next album after Nocturne. Along with this great quartet, there are strings arranged and conducted for Nightfall by Jeremy Bullock. Alan Broadbent did most of the album's string arrangements.Haden recorded a live album in Germany with Mehldau in 2007. This was released as Long Ago and Far Away on Impulse in 2018. Haden was so prolific that there may be recordings sitting in the vault that have yet to be released. Here's Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker and Brad Mehldau performing Nightfall on A&E's Breakfast with the Arts. Don't know the date. I figure 2004.
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