Dream Keeper

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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] External links / References / Awards

Blue Note B2-95474
Dream Keeper at Allmusic
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)