Charlie Haden

Charles Edward Haden was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than 50 years. Building on the work of predecessors such as Jimmy Blanton and Charles Mingus, Haden helped to revolutionize the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz, evolving a style that sometimes complemented the soloist, and other times moved independently, liberating bassists from a strictly accompanying role, to allow more direct participation in group improvisation.

6 August 1937

Born on the same birth date (6 August 1937): Baden Powell (guitarist) • Barbara Windsor

Born on the same birth day (6 August): Bob Horner • Bulstrode Whitelocke • Constance Georgina Adams • Dale Ellis • Daryl Somers • Dorian Harewood • Geri Halliwell • Henry Iba • Hjalmar Kiærskou • Jack de Gier • Jiao Liuyang • Kevin Mitnick • Maria Sophia of Neuburg • Mukhu Aliyev • Peter Bonerz • Raphael Pyrasch • Ray Culp • Soleil Moon Frye • Wilmer Flores

Born in the same month (August 1937): Barbara Windsor • Boris Rõtov • David Bedford • Donald Dewar • Gustavo Noboa • Ian Deans • Sky Saxon • Tommy Sands • Walter Dean Myers • Zoltán Berczik