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Charlie Haden: Rambling Boy

RETO CADUFF
Switzerland, 84 minutes, Color, film's website

Soft-spoken yet focused in the distinctly unassuming vein of his Midwestern upbringing, bassist and composer Charlie Haden's long-overdue documentary biography plays like a particularly warm and intimate musical composition. And that's by necessity, because there's a lot of material to cover: framed by sessions from his eponymous 2008 roots record, the film details Haden's early musical interest and collaborations with Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane through his innovative Liberation Music Orchestra and Quartet West period. Along for the ride are such still-very-much-alive musical legends and stalwart collaborators as Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, Carla Bley, Bruce Hornsby, Ravi Coltrane, and Ernie Watts. "Charlie," someone says, "is a unique being who plays bass with all his heart." He's also that rare breed of person in any discipline: an artist who has balanced a full and supportive family life with a prodigious musical output, all achieved in perfect harmony. —Eddie Cockrell

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