Silence (Charlie Haden album)

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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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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.