Dream Keeper

For the 2003 film, see Dreamkeeper.

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^[3] and was voted "Jazz album of the year" in Down Beat magazine's 1991 critics' poll.^[4] Haden, Carla Bley and Ray Anderson also placed first in that year's Acoustic Bass, Composer and Trombone poll categories, respectively.^[4]

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
Dialogues (1990) Dream Keeper (1990) Live at the Village Vanguard (1991)
Liberation Music Orchestra chronology
The Ballad of the Fallen (1983) Dream Keeper (1990) The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (1999)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Downbeat	[2]

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

Reception

The album was awarded a 5 star rating in Downbeat.^[2] Art Lange wrote, "How rare it is to hear music —beautiful, inspiring music—with a conscience and a soul".^[2]

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