In October 1990, “Blue Note” label released “Dream Keeper”, the fourth Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra album. It was recorded in April 1990, at “Clinton Studios” in New York City. “Dream Keeper” was voted “Jazz album of the year” in “Down Beat” magazine’s 1991 critics’ poll.

Personnel:

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

Track listing:

1. Dream Keeper – Carla Bley, Langston Hughes, traditional
2. Dream Keeper Part 1 – Carla Bley
3. Feliciano Ama – traditional from El Salvador
4. Dream Keeper Part II – Carla Bley
5. Canto del Pilon (I) – traditional from Venezuela
6. Dream Keeper Part III – Carla Bley
7. Canto del Pilon (II) – traditional from Venezuela
8. Hymn of the Anarchist Women’s Movement – traditional from Spanish Civil War
9. Dream Keeper Part IV – Carla Bley
10. Rabo de Nube – Silvio Rodríguez
11. Nkosi Sikelel’i Afrika – Enoch Sontonga
12. Sandino – Charlie Haden
13. Spiritual – Charlie Haden