Dream Keeper is an album by bassist Charlie Haden that was recorded in 1990 and released by Blue Note Records. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance[2] and was voted "Jazz album of the year" in Down Beat magazine's 1991 critics' poll.[3] Haden, Carla Bley and Ray Anderson also placed first in that year's Acoustic Bass, Composer and Trombone poll categories, respectively.[3]
| Dream Keeper | ||||
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| Studio album by Charlie Haden | ||||
| Released | October 1990 | |||
| Recorded | April 4–5, 1990 | |||
| Studio | Clinton Studios, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 48:23 | |||
| Label | Blue Note | |||
| Producer | Hans Wendl | |||
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| Liberation Music Orchestra chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
This album is the first by Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra since The Ballad of the Fallen (1983).
Track listing
edit- 1. "Dream Keeper" (Bley, Langston Hughes, Traditional) – 16:51
- "Dream Keeper Part 1" (Bley)
- "Feliciano Ama" (trad. from El Salvador)
- "Dream Keeper Part II" (Bley)
- "Canto del Pilon (I)" (trad. from Venezuela)
- "Dream Keeper Part III" (Bley)
- "Canto del Pilon (II)" (trad. from Venezuela)
- "Hymn of the Anarchist Women's Movement" (trad. from Spanish Civil War)
- "Dream Keeper Part IV" (Bley)
- 2. "Rabo de Nube" (Silvio Rodríguez) – 5:23
- 3. "Nkosi Sikelel'i Afrika" (Enoch Sontonga) – 10:31
- 4. "Sandino" (Haden) – 6:39
- 5. "Spiritual" (Haden) – 8:59
Personnel
edit- Tom Harrell – trumpet, flugelhorn
- Earl Gardner – trumpet
- Dewey Redman – tenor saxophone
- Joe Lovano – tenor saxophone, flute
- Branford Marsalis – tenor saxophone, flute
- Ken McIntyre – alto saxophone
- Ray Anderson – trombone
- Sharon Freeman – French horn
- Joseph Daley – tuba
- Juan Lazaro Mendolas – wood flute, pan flute
- Amina Claudine Myers – piano
- Mick Goodrick – guitar
- Charlie Haden – double bass
- Paul Motian – drums
- Don Alias – percussion
- Carla Bley – arranger, conductor
- The Oakland Youth Chorus, Elizabeth Min, director
References
edit- ^ Cook, Stephen (2011). "Dream Keeper - Charlie Haden & The Liberation Music Orchestra | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ^ "Grammy Award Results for Charlie Haden". grammy.com. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ^ a b "1991 Down Beat Critics Poll". downbeat.com. August 31, 1991. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007.
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