Dream Keeper | ||||
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Studio album by Charlie Haden | ||||
Released | October 1990 | |||
Recorded | April 4–5, 1990 | |||
Studio | Clinton, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 48:23 | |||
Label | Blue Note | |||
Producer | Hans Wendl | |||
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Dream Keeper is an album by bassist Charlie Haden, recorded in 1990 and released by Blue Note Records. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance [1] and was voted "Jazz album of the year" in DownBeat 's 1991 critics' poll. [2] Haden, Carla Bley and Ray Anderson also placed first in that year's Acoustic Bass, Composer and Trombone poll categories, respectively. [2]
This album is the first by Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra since The Ballad of the Fallen (1983).
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DownBeat 's Art Lange wrote, "How rare it is to hear music —beautiful, inspiring music—with a conscience and a soul". [4]