| Always Say Goodbye | ||||
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| Released | 1994 | |||
| Recorded | July 30 and August 1, 1993 | |||
| Studio | Ocean Way Recording, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 69:47 | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
| Producer | Charlie Haden, Hans Wendl | |||
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Always Say Goodbye is an album by American jazz bassist Charlie Haden's Quartet West that was recorded in 1993 and released on the Verve label. [1] The "intro" and the "ending" tracks feature excerpts from Hawks's masterpiece The Big Sleep .
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Eric Brace of The Washington Post wrote that the album "takes music and dialogue from films like Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep , and combines them with Quartet West originals and standards from past eras to create a romantic sound collage that won Down Beat magazine's Album of the Year award in 1994." [4]
The AllMusic review by Daniel Gioffre awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "Always Say Goodbye is part of the continuing Quartet West project by Haden, in which the venerable bassist attempts to evoke the spirit of Hollywood circa 1930-1940... The results, though at first a little bit unsettling, are quite spectacular... Highly recommended". [2]
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