Dream Keeper

Dream Keeper
Studio album by Charlie Haden
Released	1990
Recorded	Clinton Studios, New York, April 4–5, 1990
Genre	Jazz
Length	48:23
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Hans Wendl
Liberation Music Orchestra chronology
The Ballad of the Fallen (1983) Dream Keeper (1990) Not in Our Name (2005)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

For the 2003 film see Dreamkeeper.

Dream Keeper is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden, recorded in 1990 and released by Blue Note Records. The album was nominated for a Grammy award and was voted "Jazz album of the year" in Down Beat magazine's 1991 critic's poll. Haden, Carla Bley and Ray Anderson also placed first in that year's Acoustic Bass, Composer and Trombone poll categories, respectively.

The album is the third studio recording by Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, the follow-up to their 1983 The Ballad of the Fallen.

Track listing

1. "Dream Keeper" (Bley, 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" (Rodriguez) – 5:23

3. "Nkosi Sikelel'i Afrika" (Sontonga) – 10:31

4. "Sandino" (Haden) – 6:39

5. "Spiritual" (Haden) – 8:59

Personnel

• Charlie Haden – bass
• Carla Bley – arranger, conductor
• Don Alias – percussion
• Ray Anderson – trombone
• Joseph Daley – tuba
• Sharon Freeman – french horn
• Earl Gardner – trumpet
• Mick Goodrick – guitar
• Tom Harrell – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Joe Lovano – flute, tenor saxophone
• Branford Marsalis – flute, tenor saxophone
• Ken McIntyre – alto saxophone
• Juan Lazaro Mendolas – flute (wood), pan flute
• Paul Motian – drums
• Amina Claudine Myers – piano
• Dewey Redman – tenor saxophone
• The Oakland Youth Chorus, Elizabeth Min, director

External links / Awards

• Blue Note B2-95474
• 1991 Down Beat magazine critic's poll winner: Jazz Album of the Year, Acoustic Bass (Haden), Arranger (Bley), Trombone (Anderson) link
• 1991 Grammy nomination for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance (LA Times link)
• 1990 Swing Journal (Japanese jazz magazine) Bronze Disk award (Japanese link)

References

1. ^ Cook, Stephen (2011 [last update]). "Dream Keeper - Charlie Haden & The Liberation Music Orchestra | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r139994. Retrieved 18 July 2011.