Charlie Haden

Liberation Music Orchestra

Impulse!

A suite of revolutionary anarchist songs from the Spanish Civil War — featuring Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Gato Barbieri, Dewey Redman and guitarist Sam Brown — plus Ornette’s War Orphans, three works by Carla Bley (who arranges brilliantly), and two by the great bassist himself, in tributes to Che Guevara and protests against the Vietnam War, on his tumultuous, bracing, expansive first outing as leader, in 1970.

• The Introduction
• Song of the United Front
• El Quinto Regimiento
• Los Cuatro Generales
• Viva la Quince Brigada
• The Ending to the First Side
• Song for Ché
• War Orphans"
• The Interlude (Drinking Music)
• Circus '68 '69
• We Shall Overcome