Not in Our Name (album)

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Not in Our Name
NotInOurName CharlieHaden.jpg
Studio album by
Charlie Haden
ReleasedAugust 2005
RecordedJuly 19–22, 2004
Studio Studio Forum Music Village, Rome
Genre Jazz
Length68:57
Label Verve
Producer Charlie Haden, Carla Bley, Ruth Cameron
Charlie Haden chronology
Land of the Sun
(2004)
Not in Our Name
(2005)
Helium Tears
(2005)
Liberation Music Orchestra chronology
The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra
(1999)
Not in Our Name
(2005)
Time/Life
(2016)
Professional ratings
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Not in Our Name is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden, recorded in 2004 and released by Verve Records in 2005.

Contents

The album is the fourth by Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, the follow-up to Dream Keeper (1990).

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote that "It's respectful but with a certain impatience over the routine sentimentalization of these lovely tunes, particularly at a time when the country is again at war." [2]

Track listing

  1. "Not in our Name" (Charlie Haden) – 6:19
  2. "This is Not America" (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, David Bowie) – 6:39
  3. "Blue Anthem" (Bley) – 7:49
  4. "America the Beautiful" (Medley) – 16:54
    1. "America the Beautiful" (Samuel A. Ward)
    2. "America the Beautiful" (Gary McFarland)
    3. "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson)
    4. "Skies of America" (Ornette Coleman)
  5. "Amazing Grace" (John Newton / traditional) – 7:12
  6. "Goin' Home" (Antonín Dvořák) – 7:49
  7. "Throughout" (Bill Frisell) – 8:55
  8. "Adagio" (Samuel Barber) – 7:20

Personnel

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References

  1. Jurek, Thom (2011). "Not in Our Name - Charlie Haden | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  2. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 625. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.