Dream Keeper

Studio album by Charlie Haden

Released

1990

Recorded

April 4–5, 1990

Studio

Clinton Studios, New York City

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]

Dream Keeper is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden that was 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, 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

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

Awards

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
As leader	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) Songs with Legs (1994) 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) Andando el Tiempo (2016)
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) Are We There Yet? (1999)
Related	List of works

Charlie Haden
Studio albums	As Long as There's Music (1978) Closeness (1976) The Golden Number (1977) Gitane (1978) Magico (1979) Folk Songs (1979) Etudes (1987) Silence (1987) Dialogues (1990) First Song (1992) Steal Away (1995) Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) (1997) None But the Lonely Heart (1997) Nocturne (2001) American Dreams (2002) Land of the Sun (2004) Heartplay (2006) Come Sunday (2012)
Live albums	Time Remembers One Time Once (1981) The Montreal Tapes: with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell (1994) The Montreal Tapes: with Paul Bley and Paul Motian (1994) Night and the City (1996) The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (1997) The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian (1997) The Montreal Tapes: with Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Paul Motian (1997) In Montreal (2001) The Montreal Tapes: Tribute to Joe Henderson (2004) Magico: Carta de Amor (2012)
Liberation Music Orchestra albums	Liberation Music Orchestra (1969) The Ballad of the Fallen (1982) Dream Keeper (1990) Not in Our Name (2005) Time/Life (Song for the Whales and Other Beings) (2016)
Old and New Dreams albums	Old and New Dreams (1976) Old and New Dreams (1979) Playing (1980) A Tribute to Blackwell (1987)
Quartet West albums	Quartet West (1987) In Angel City (1988) Haunted Heart (1991) Always Say Goodbye (1993) Now Is the Hour (1996) The Art of the Song (1999) The Private Collection (2007)
Related	Discography Josh Haden Spain [band] The Blue Moods of Spain Petra Haden Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out Rachel Haden Tanya Haden Let's Go Sailing The Haden Triplets

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