Late Bassist Charlie Haden Honored by Pat Metheny, Richard Lewis, More at New York Memorial — billboard.com

A large and loving gathering of friends and family honored late bassist Charlie Haden with a memorial on Tuesday night (Jan. 13), bringing together a bevy of heartfelt remembrances, music and song at New York's Town Hall. The free event was hosted by Haden's wife Ruth Cameron Haden along with support from family and friends like Pat Metheny, Henry Butler, Geri Allen, Brad Mehldau and Bill Frisell. Haden died in July at the age of 76, and was one of the most influential bass players of his generation, anchoring saxophonist Ornette Coleman's original quartet in the late 1950s and playing a crucial role in pianist Keith Jarrett's "American Quartet" through the 1970s.

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