Artist: Charlie Haden
Album: Liberation Music Orchestra
Genre: Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz
Label: Impulse!/Universal
Released: 1969/2001
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- The Introduction (C.Bley)/Song of the United Front (Eisler-Brecht) - 3:09
- El Quinto Regimiento (The Fifth Regiment)/Los Cuatro Generales (The Four Generals)/Viva la Quince Brigada (Long Live the Fifteenth Brigade) (C.Bley) - 21:00
- The Ending to the First Side (C.Bley) - 2:11
- Song for Che (Haden) - 9:32
- War Orphans (Coleman) - 6:44
- The Interlude (Drinking Music) (C.Bley) - 1:26
- Circus '68 '69 (Haden) - 6:11
- We Shall Overcome (Horton-Hamilton-Carawan-Seeger) - 1:21
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- Personnel:
- Perry Robinson - clarinet
- Gato Barbieri - tenor saxophone, clarinet
- Dewey Redman - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Don Cherry - cornet, Indian wood and bamboo flutes
- Mike Mantler - trumpet
- Roswell Rudd - trombone
- Bob Northern - French horn, hand wood blocks, crow call, bells, military whistle
- Howard Johnson - tuba
- Paul Motian, Andrew Cyrille - percussion instruments
- Sam Brown - guitar, Tanganyikan guitar, thumb piano
- Carla Bley - piano, tambourine
- Charlie Haden - bass violin
A fascinating reissue that comfortably straddles the lines of jazz, folk, and world music, working up a storm by way of a jazz protest album that points toward the Spanish Civil War in particular and the Vietnam War in passing. Haden leads the charge and contributes material, but the real star here may in fact be Carla Bley, who arranged numbers, wrote several, and contributed typically brilliant piano work. Also of particular note in a particularly talented crew is guitarist Sam Brown, the standout of "El Quinto Regimiento/Los Cuatro Generales/Viva la Quince Brigada," a 21-minute marathon. Reissue producer Michael Cuscuna has done his best with the mastering here, but listeners will note a roughness to the sound -- one that is in keeping with the album's tone and attitude.
Review by Steven McDonald