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Charlie Haden

1937 - 2014

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Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than 50 years. Building on the work of predecessors such as Jimmy Blanton and Charles Mingus, Haden helped to revolutionize the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz, evolving a style that sometimes complemented the soloist, and other times moved independently, liberating bassists from a strictly accompanying role, to allow more direct participation in group improvisation. In the late 1950s, he was an original member of the ground-breaking Ornette Coleman Quartet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charlie Haden has received more than 1,127,972 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Charlie Haden is the 979th most popular musician (down from 738th in 2019), the 4,768th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,774th in 2019) and the 320th most popular American Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Charlie Haden has had the most page views in the with 197,209 views, followed by German (15,663), and Japanese (10,775). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (71.68%), Hungarian (59.16%), and Swedish (50.56%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Charlie Haden ranks 979 out of 3,175Before him are Tuomas Holopainen, Gábor Szabó, Corey Taylor, Candy Dulfer, Daron Malakian, and Phil Campbell. After him are Dick Parry, Wolf Hoffmann, Ted Nugent, John Mayer, Tommy Thayer, and Michael Weikath.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Charlie Haden ranks 267Before him are Givi Chokheli, Boris Yegorov, Ivo Daneu, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Zdeněk Zikán, and Zoltán Horváth. After him are Petar Radaković, Vitaly Zholobov, José Augusto, Richard Petty, Ken Ogata, and Manoj Kumar. Among people deceased in 2014, Charlie Haden ranks 203Before him are Joel Camargo, Samih al-Qasim, Stanisław Mikulski, Louise Brough, György Lázár, and Alice Coachman. After him are Rafael Addiego Bruno, Dave Legeno, José Emilio Pacheco, Simin Behbahani, Said Akl, and Ilija Pantelić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charlie Haden ranks 4,768 out of 20,380Before him are Stanley Cavell (1926), Alice Coachman (1923), Edward Chamberlin (1899), Elvin Hayes (1945), Christopher Atkins (1961), and Prodigy (1974). After him are Michael Moriarty (1941), Tim Kang (1973), Thomas Jane (1969), Walter Piston (1894), William Perry (1927), and David Hedison (1927).

Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Charlie Haden ranks 320Before him are Amy Lee (1981), Barney Kessel (1923), Dimebag Darrell (1966), Matisyahu (1979), Corey Taylor (1973), and Daron Malakian (1975). After him are Ted Nugent (1948), John Mayer (1977), Tommy Thayer (1960), Blackie Lawless (1956), Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), and Levon Helm (1940).