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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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Similar
  
Charlie Haden albums, Avant-garde jazz albums, Other albums

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.

Contents

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) – 4:14 2. “The Ballad of the Fallen” (folk song from El Salvador) – 4:19 3. “Silence” (Charlie Haden) – 5:49

LP side B:

1. “Too Late” (Carla Bley) – 8:24 2. “La Pasionaria” (Charlie Haden) – 10:26 3. “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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