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Dream Keeper

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Released
  
1990

Length
  
48:23

Producer
  
Hans Wendl

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
Blue Note

Recorded
  
Clinton Studios, New York, April 4–5, 1990

Dream Keeper is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden, 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.

Contents

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, Hughes, Traditional) – 16:512. "Rabo de Nube" (Rodríguez) – 5:233. "Nkosi Sikelel'i Afrika" (Sontonga) – 10:314. "Sandino" (Haden) – 6:395. "Spiritual" (Haden) – 8:59

Personnel

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

    • References

    Dream Keeper Wikipedia
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