Dream Keeper

Studio album by Charlie Haden

Released

1990

Recorded

Clinton Studios, New York, April 4–5, 1990

Genre

Jazz

Length

48:23

Charlie Haden chronology

Dialogues
(1990)

Dream Keeper
(1990)

Steal Away
(1995)

Liberation Music Orchestra chronology

The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra
(1989)

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" (Rodríguez) – 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

↑ Cook, Stephen (2011). "Dream Keeper - Charlie Haden & The Liberation Music Orchestra | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.

Carla Bley

Studio albums	Tropic Appetites (1974) Dinner Music (1977) European Tour 1977 (1978) Musique Mecanique (1979) Social Studies (1981) Live! (1982) I Hate to Sing (1984) Heavy Heart (1984) Sextet (1987) Fleur Carnivore (1989) The Very Big Carla Bley Band (1991) Big Band Theory (1993) The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church (1996) Fancy Chamber Music (1998) 4 x 4 (2000) Looking for America (2003) The Lost Chords (2004) The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu (2007) Appearing Nightly (2008) Carla's Christmas Carols (2009) Trios (2013)

With Gary Burton	A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967)

With Jazz Composer's Orchestra	The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1968) Escalator over the Hill (1968-71) Relativity Suite (1973)

With Michael Mantler	Jazz Realities (1966)

With Charlie Haden	Liberation Music Orchestra (1969) The Ballad of the Fallen (1983) Dream Keeper (1990) Not in Our Name (2005)

With Nick Mason	Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1979)

With Steve Swallow	Night-Glo (1985) Duets (1988) Go Together (1992) Songs with Legs (1994) Are We There Yet? (1999)

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