Dream Keeper

For the 2003 film, see Dreamkeeper.
Dream Keeper
Studio album by
Charlie Haden
ReleasedOctober 1990
RecordedApril 4–5, 1990
StudioClinton Studios, New York City
GenreJazz
Length48:23
LabelBlue Note
ProducerHans Wendl
Charlie Haden chronology
Dialogues
(1990) 		Dream Keeper
(1990) 		Live at the Village Vanguard
(1991)
Liberation Music Orchestra chronology
The Ballad of the Fallen
(1983) 		Dream Keeper
(1990) 		The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]

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]

This album is the first by Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra since The Ballad of the Fallen (1983).

Track listing

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

References

  1. ^ Cook, Stephen (2011). "Dream Keeper - Charlie Haden & The Liberation Music Orchestra | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Grammy Award Results for Charlie Haden". grammy.com. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
  3. ^ a b "1991 Down Beat Critics Poll". downbeat.com. August 31, 1991. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007.
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