Dream Keeper

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Dream Keeper
DreamKeeper CharlieHaden.jpg
Studio album by
Charlie Haden
ReleasedOctober 1990
RecordedApril 4–5, 1990
StudioClinton, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length48:23
Label Blue Note
Producer Hans Wendl
Charlie Haden chronology
Dialogues
(1990)
Dream Keeper
(1990)
Live at the Village Vanguard
(1991)
Liberation Music Orchestra chronology
The Ballad of the Fallen
(1983)
Dream Keeper
(1990)
The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra
(1999)

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]

Contents

This album is the first by Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra since The Ballad of the Fallen (1983).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
DownBeat Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [4]

DownBeat 's Art Lange wrote, "How rare it is to hear music —beautiful, inspiring music—with a conscience and a soul". [4]

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

References

  1. "Grammy Award Results for Charlie Haden". grammy.com. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
  2. 1 2 "1991 Down Beat Critics Poll". downbeat.com. August 31, 1991. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007.
  3. Cook, Stephen (2011). "Dream Keeper - Charlie Haden & The Liberation Music Orchestra | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
  4. 1 2 Art, Lange (May 1991). "Reviews. Charlie Haden / Liberation Music Orchestra. Dream Keeper". DownBeat . Vol. 58, no. 5. p. 30.