The Ballad of the Fallen

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Released 1983 Length 51:51 The Ballad of the Fallen(1983) Dream Keeper(1990) Release date 1983 Label ECM Records		Recorded 1982 November The Ballad of the Fallen(1983) Quartet West(1986) Artist Charlie Haden Producer Manfred Eicher Genre Avant-garde jazz

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The Ballad of the Fallen is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden, recorded in 1982 and released in 1983. The album was voted "Jazz album of the year" in Down Beat magazine's 1984 critic's poll. Haden and Bley also placed first in that 1984 poll's Acoustic Bass and Composer categories, respectively.

The album is in fact the second by Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, the follow-up to their 1969 Liberation Music Orchestra. Carla Bley, Don Cherry, Michael Mantler, Paul Motian, Dewey Redman, and Haden himself reappeared in the LMO's new incarnation, together with six new members.

Track listing

LP side A:

1. “Els Segadors” (“The Reapers”) (Catalan traditional) – 4:142. “The Ballad of the Fallen” (folk song from El Salvador) – 4:193. “Silence” (Charlie Haden) – 5:49

LP side B:

1. “Too Late” (Carla Bley) – 8:242. “La Pasionaria” (Charlie Haden) – 10:263. “La Santa Espina” (Àngel Guimerà/Enric Morera) – 6:58

(Arrangements by Carla Bley.)

Personnel

Carla Bley — piano, glockenspiel

Don Cherry — pocket trumpet

Sharon Freeman — French horn

Mick Goodrick — guitar

Charlie Haden — bass

Jack Jeffers — tuba

Michael Mantler — trumpet

Paul Motian — percussion, drums

Jim Pepper — flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone

Dewey Redman — tenor saxophone

Steve Slagle — clarinet, flute, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone

Gary Valente — trombone

Songs

1Els SegadorsCarla Bley4:15
2The Ballad of the FallenCarla Bley4:20
3If You Want to Write MeCarla Bley3:56

References

The Ballad of the Fallen Wikipedia

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