Dream Keeper

Dream Keeper
Dream Keeper
Studio album by Charlie Haden
Released	October 1990
Recorded	April 4–5, 1990
Studio	Clinton Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	48:23
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Hans Wendl
Charlie Haden chronology
Liberation Music Orchestra chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Dream Keeper is an album by bassist Charlie Haden that was recorded in 1990 and released by Blue Note Records. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance^[2] and was voted "Jazz album of the year" in Down Beat magazine's 1991 critics' poll.^[3] Haden, Carla Bley and Ray Anderson also placed first in that year's Acoustic Bass, Composer and Trombone poll categories, respectively.^[3]

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

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

References

^ Cook, Stephen (2011). "Dream Keeper - Charlie Haden & The Liberation Music Orchestra | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
^ "Grammy Award Results for Charlie Haden". grammy.com. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "1991 Down Beat Critics Poll". downbeat.com. August 31, 1991. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007.

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

[2] "Grammy Award Results for Charlie Haden". grammy.com. Retrieved May 9, 2020.

[db-3] "1991 Down Beat Critics Poll". downbeat.com. August 31, 1991. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007.

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v t e 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) Life Goes On (2020)
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 articles	Discography

v t e Charlie Haden
Studio albums	As Long as There's Music (1978) Closeness (1976) The Golden Number (1977) Gitane (1978) Mágico (1980) Folk Songs (1981) Etudes (1988) Silence (1989) 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) Nightfall (2004) 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 (2003) Long Ago and Far Away (2007) Mágico: Carta de Amor (2012) Tokyo Adagio (2015)
Liberation Music Orchestra albums	Liberation Music Orchestra (1970) The Ballad of the Fallen (1983) Dream Keeper (1990) Not in Our Name (2005) Time/Life (2016)
Old and New Dreams albums	Old and New Dreams (1977) Old and New Dreams (1979) Playing (1981) A Tribute to Blackwell (1990)
Quartet West albums	Quartet West (1987) In Angel City (1988) Haunted Heart (1992) Always Say Goodbye (1994) Now Is the Hour (1996) The Art of the Song (1999) The Private Collection (2007) Sophisticated Ladies (2010)
Related articles	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

v t e Ken McIntyre
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Stone Blues (1960) Looking Ahead (and Eric Dolphy, 1960) Year of the Iron Sheep (1962) Hindsight (1974) Home (1975) Open Horizon (1975) Introducing the Vibrations (1976) Chasing the Sun (1978)
With others	Don't Look Back (Nat Adderley, 1976) Honi Gordon Sings (1962) The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (Charlie Haden, 1989) Dream Keeper (Charlie Haden, 1990) Unit Structures (Cecil Taylor, 1966)

v t e Paul Motian
Albums	Conception Vessel (1972) Tribute (1974) Dance (1977) Le Voyage (1979) Psalm (1981) The Story of Maryam (1983) It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago (1984) Jack of Clubs (1984) Misterioso (1986) One Time Out (1987) Monk in Motian (1988) On Broadway Volume 1 (1988) On Broadway Volume 2 (1989) Bill Evans (1990) Motian in Tokyo (1991) On Broadway Volume 3 (1991) Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band (1992) Trioism (1993) Reincarnation of a Love Bird (1994) At the Village Vanguard (1995) Sound of Love (1995) Flight of the Blue Jay (1996) Trio 2000 + One (1997) Play Monk and Powell (1998) Europe (2000) Holiday for Strings (2001) Garden of Eden (2004) I Have the Room Above Her (2004) On Broadway Vol. 4 or The Paradox of Continuity (2005) Live at the Village Vanguard (2006) Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. II (2006) Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. III (2006) Time and Time Again (2006) On Broadway Volume 5 (2008) Lost in a Dream (2009) The Windmills of Your Mind (2010)
Tethered Moon	(Masabumi Kikuchi, Paul Motian and Gary Peacock) First Meeting (1990–91) Tethered Moon Play Kurt Weill (1994) Chansons d'Édith Piaf (1999) Experiencing Tosca (2002)
Trio	(Geri Allen, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian) Etudes (1987) In the Year of the Dragon (1989) Segments (1989) The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian (Haden, 1989) Live at the Village Vanguard (1990)
Discography