“To fully describe the significance, influence, individuality and great beauty of Al Haig’s piano style would require a book rather than an album liner. Very few artists in any creative field attain perfection but Haig is a man who comes incredibly close to that ideal during a career that goes back to the early days of modern Jazz. Where great music was happening in New York in the 1940s, Al Haig was to be found. He played piano in two of Charlie Parker’s best groups, figured in some of the earliest recordings by Parker and Gillespie in 1945-46 and was recognized by the leading players of the new idiom as its most gifted and sensitive accompanist.”
Mark Gardner, liner notes to Al Haig Trio and Quintet [Prestige 7841]
“I feel at a loss when Al is not around.”
Charlie Parker
