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Now Is the Hour (Charlie Haden album)

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Released
  
1996

Length
  
59:38

Label
  
Gitanes Jazz Productions

Recorded
  
July 18-20, 1995

Release date
  
1996

Genre
  
Jazz

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Now Is the Hour (1995)
  
Night and the City (1996)

Artists
  
Charlie Haden, Charlie Haden & Quartet West

Producers
  
Charlie Haden, Ruth Cameron

Similar
  
Charlie Haden & Quartet West albums, Jazz albums

Now Is the Hour is an album by the American jazz bassist Charlie Haden's Quartet West recorded in 1995 and released on the Verve label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Tim Sheridan awarded the album 4 stars stating "Seldom does modern music so perfectly evoke a time and place in history as this terrific band. Fans of Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra will find the simple accessibility either surprising or disappointing, but fans of classic, romantic jazz will find joy".

Track listing

All compositions by Charlie Haden except as indicated
  1. "Here's Looking at You" - 6:11
  2. "The Left Hand of God" (Victor Young) - 7:48
  3. "Requiem" (Lennie Tristano) - 1:31
  4. "Back Home Blues" (Charlie Parker) - 4:04
  5. "There in a Dream" - 7:04
  6. "All Through the Night" (Cole Porter) - 4:12
  7. "Detour Ahead" (Lou Carter, Herb Ellis, John Freigo) - 6:04
  8. "Blue Pearl" (Bud Powell) - 4:32
  9. "When Tomorrow Comes" (Alan Broadbent) - 4:37
  10. "Palo Alto" (Lee Konitz) - 4:54
  11. "Marables's Parable" - 3:30
  12. "Now Is the Hour (Haere Ra)" (Maewa Kaihau, Clement Scott, Dorothy Stewart) - 4:58
  • Recorded at Studios Guillaume Tell in Suresnes-Paris, France on July 18-20, 1995

    • Personnel

  • Charlie Haden – bass
  • Ernie Watts - tenor saxophone
  • Alan Broadbent - piano
  • Larance Marable - drums
  • String Orchestra arranged and conducted by Alan Broadbent (tracks 1-3, 5, 7, 9 & 12)

    • Songs

    1Here's Looking at You6:10
    2The Left Hand of God7:48
    3Requiem1:31

    References

    Now Is the Hour (Charlie Haden album) Wikipedia
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