The Ballad of the Fallen | ||||
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Released | 1 October 1983[1] | |||
Recorded | November 1982[2] | |||
Genre | Avant-garde jazz, experimental big band | |||
Length | 51:51 | |||
Label | ECM 1248 | |||
Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
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AllMusic | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [3] |
The Ballad of the Fallen is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden, with arrangements by Carla Bley, recorded in November 1982 and released on ECM October the following year.
The album is the second by Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, the follow-up to their 1969 Liberation Music Orchestra.[2] Carla Bley, Don Cherry, Michael Mantler, Paul Motian, Dewey Redman, and Haden himself appeared in the LMO's new incarnation with six new members.