The Ballad of the Fallen

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The Ballad of the Fallen
Album by Charlie Haden
Released	1983
Recorded	November 1982
Genre	Jazz
Length	51:51
Label	ECM
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1]
Charlie Haden chronology
Folk Songs (1979)	The Ballad of the Fallen (1983)	Quartet West (1986)

The Ballad of the Fallen is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden, recorded in 1982 and released in 1983.

The album is in fact the second by Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, the follow-up to their 1969 Liberation Music Orchestra. Carla Bley, Don Cherry, Michael Mantler, Paul Motian, Dewey Redman, and haden himself reappeared in the LMO's new incarnation, together with six new members.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Els Segadors" ("The Reapers") (traditional) –4:14
2. "The Ballad of the Fallen" –4:19
3. "If You Want to Write Me" ("Si Me Quieres Escribir") (traditional) –3:55
4. "Grândola Vila Morena" (Afonso) –2:11
5. "Introduction to People" (Bley) –3:55
6. "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" ("El Pueble Unido Jamás Será Vencid" (Ediciones–Ortega) –1:40
7. "Silence" (Haden) –5:49
8. "Too Late" (Bley) –8:24
9. "La Pasionaria" (Haden) –10:26
10. "La Santa Espina" (Guimerá) –6:58

(Arrangements by Bley.)

[edit] Personnel

• Carla Bley — piano, glockenspiel
• Don Cherry — pocket trumpet
• Sharon Freeman — French horn
• Mick Goodrick — guitar
• Charlie Haden — bass
• Jack Jeffers — tuba
• Michael Mantler — trumpet
• Paul Motian — percussion, drums
• Jim Pepper — flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Dewey Redman — tenor saxophone
• Steve Slagle — clarinet, flute, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Gary Valente — trombone