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ECM Records>ECM 1248| producer = Manfred Eicher| prev_title = Time Remembers One Time Once| prev_year = 1983| next_title = Quartet West| next_year = 1987| misc = {hide}Extra chronology {edih}}}{{Album ratings|rev1 = AllMusic3class=albumpure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide4|5}}BOOK , |rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3.5AUTHORLINK1=RICHARD COOK (JOURNALIST) FIRST2=BRIAN TITLE=THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ >YEAR=2008 PUBLISHER=PENGUIN BOOKS >ISBN=978-0-141-03401-0, 623, }}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. Carla Bley, Don Cherry, Michael Mantler, Paul Motian, Dewey Redman, and Haden himself appeared in the LMO’s new incarnation with six new members.

Reception

The album was voted jazz album of the year in Down Beat magazine’s 1984 critic’s poll. Haden and Carla Bley placed first in that 1984 poll’s “Acoustic Bass” and “Composer” categories, respectively.

Track listing

• Side A

• Side B

Personnel

Liberation Music Orchestra

• Charlie Haden – double bass
• Carla Bley – piano, glockenspiel, arrangements
• Dewey Redman – tenor saxophone
• Jim Pepper – flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Steve Slagle – clarinet, flute, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Michael Mantler – trumpet
• Gary Valente – trombone
• Sharon Freeman – French horn
• Jack Jeffers – tuba
• Don Cherry – pocket trumpet
• Mick Goodrick – guitar
• Paul Motian – percussion, drums

References

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External links

• The Story behind the Ballad of the Fallen, by Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra at The Music Aficionado, Jan.3, 2017
• Liner notes at ECM, accessed 5/1/2018

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