Liberation Music Orchestra
by Charlie Haden
- Type: Album
- Released: 1970
- Label: Impulse!
- Country: United States
- Length: 32:41
- Community rating: 4.1/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A landmark album of political jazz and a powerful statement of protest against the Vietnam War. Bassist Charlie Haden and arranger Carla Bley masterfully blend folk songs from the Spanish Civil War and civil rights anthems with the fiery energy of free jazz improvisation.
Genres
Descriptors: orchestral, protest, political, improvisation, avant-garde
Tracklist
- The Introduction (1:17)
- Song of the United Front (1:52)
- El Quinto Regimiento (20:59)
- Los Cuatro Generales (2:51)
- Viva la Quince Brigada (5:42)
Credits
- Charlie Haden - primary artist, design [cover], double bass [bass violin], sleeve notes, written-by, arranged by
- Carla Bley - art direction [banner by], piano, tambourine, arranged by, written-by, arranged by
- Perry Robinson - clarinet
- Don Cherry - cornet, flute [indian wood flute, bamboo flute]
- David Greene - engineer
- Bob Arnold - engineer [re-mix engineer]
- Robert Northern - french horn, wood block [hand wood blocks], bells, reeds [crow call], whistle [military whistle]
- Sam Brown - guitar, thumb piano, guitar [tanganyikan guitar]
- Andrew Cyrille - percussion
- Paul Motian - percussion
- Chuck Stewart - photography by [cover and liner]
- Bob Thiele - producer
- Dewey Redman - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
- Gato Barbieri - tenor saxophone, clarinet
- Roswell Rudd - trombone
- Michael Mantler - trumpet
- Howard Johnson - tuba
- Ornette Coleman - written-by
- Frank Hamilton - written-by
- Guy Carawan - written-by
- Pete Seeger - written-by
- Zilphia Horton - written-by