The Art of the Song

The Art of the Song
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 27, 1999
RecordedFebruary 19–22, 1999
StudioCapitol Studio A (Hollywood)
GenreJazz, Vocal jazz
Length65:53
LabelPolygram
ProducerCharlie Haden, Ruth Cameron
Charlie Haden chronology
The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra
(1999)
The Art of the Song
(1999)
Nocturne
(2001)
Quartet West chronology
Now Is the Hour
(1994)
The Art of the Song
(1999)
The Private Collection
(2007)

The Art of the Song is an album by jazz bassist Charlie Haden and his Quartet West, released in 1999. It reached number ten on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.

Quartet West was formed in 1986. Their repertoire consisted mainly of music from the 1930s and 1940s, often music associated with films of that period.

Guest vocalists Bill Henderson and Shirley Horn each perform four songs.

The orchestral accompaniment written for Shirley Horn of Leonard Bernstein's "Lonely Town", won Alan Broadbent a Grammy Award.