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.
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]
Track listing
All compositions by Charlie Haden except as indicated.