Charlie Haden
Liberation Music Orchestra (FULL ALBUM)
To be honest, I originally bought this recording shortly after its release based on its title. Unfortunately it did not inspire me to do much of anything other then take the record of the turn table quickly. The arrangements are by Carla Bley and my mind was not ready for her in 1970. Actually they aren’t really yet today, but I am able to appreciate what she is doing.
Liberation Music Orchestra is a band and jazz album by Charlie Haden released in 1970, Haden's first as leader.
The inspiration for the album came when Haden heard songs from the Spanish Civil War. He included three of those songs on the album (the trilogy "El Quinto Regimiento", "Los Cuatro Generales", and "Viva la Quince Brigada", which are old Spanish folk songs given new words during the war, in that order "El Vito", previously adapted by John Coltrane as “Olé", "Los Cuatro Muleros", for which Federico García Lorca also wrote lyrics, and "Ay Carmela”).
Lester Bangs' Rolling Stone review stated, "The arrangements by Carla Bley are miracles of dynamics, rising and falling in volume and velocity and the awe-inspiring balance of collective ensembles improvising freely through swellings and contractions of individual voices entering and leaving the mysterious swirling circle of simultaneous songs as diverse as the number of performers yet never lacking in the kind of transporting telepathic unity that makes this multiplicity of musical lines such a far cry from the chaos of the charlatans in other sections of the avant-garde hiding under the mantle of these geniuses. An extremely tight, moving substantial record."[5] Robert Christgau was less impressed in The Village Voice, regarding the album as merely "competent Jazz Composer’s Orchestra style ensemble jazz, full of nice dissonances and not much more”.[4]
• Perry Robinson — clarinet
• Gato Barbieri — tenor saxophone, clarinet
• Dewey Redman — alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Don Cherry — cornet, flute, Indian wood & bamboo flutes (3,5)
• Michael Mantler — trumpet
• Roswell Rudd — trombone
• Bob Northern — French horn, hand wood blocks, crow call, bells, military whistle
• Howard Johnson — tuba
• Sam Brown — guitar, Tanganyikan guitar, thumb piano
• Carla Bley — piano, tambourine
• Charlie Haden — bass
• Paul Motian — drums, percussion
• Andrew Cyrille — drums, percussion (8)
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