(Modern Creative Jazz / Free Jazz / Contemporary Jazz) Charlie Haden with Liberation Music Orchestra ( Joe Lovano / Ray Anderson / Geri Allen / Paul Motian etc ) - The Montreal Tapes - 1999, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra
The fact that this is a concert-recording, a live performance, has bearing on this--the eighth and last evening of the Montreal Festival, devoted to the work of the bassist and leader, came as a conclusion, an apotheosis, to the carte blanche invitation that Haden used to take every orchestral liberty in crossing the web of his memories and affinities. The huis clos of a studio would never have permitted We Shall Overcome to swell to proportions (more than thirty seven minutes) of a jam session, a procession of soloists over a blues background like a sort of modern Jazz At The Philharmonic exploring all phrases and history of jazz, from archaic mutings and growls to widely varying contemporary colours, via polyphonic stops bristling trebles and harmonics, whilst the Haden pulse, the bass, maintains a kind of fever around the collective discourse is forged.... And here more than ever, the word is liberty, freedom, libertad, becuase here, there and elsewhere, what it designates is in danger.
-- from the liner notes by Phillipe Carles, Editor-in-Chief Jazz Magazine

This is number four in the series chronicling the week of concerts with different line-ups the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal devoted to the great bassist in 1989. Which means this version of the Liberation Music Orchestra may be even more star-studded than usual and creates the "problem" of giving everybody enough solo space without taking away from the ensemble interaction. The Montreal Tapes doesn't really resolve the dilemma -- it sidesteps it by setting up two long pieces as blowing vehicles to showcase soloists and two shorter ones to spotlight the full ensemble.
Mick Goodrick's unaccompanied guitar triggers Joe Lovano's muscular statement of the Spanish-tinged theme of "La Pasionaria." The saxophonist then takes a long, strong solo backed by only Haden and drummer Paul Motian before handing off halfway through to Geri Allen's stabbing piano trio statement. Only then does Haden's solo take it to the closing band statement.
"Silence" is a brass section feature before Haden's beautiful, sad closing solo over Allen's spare chordal backing and the sprightly, uptempo "Sandino" is for the entire orchestra with a trumpet solo from Tom Harrell (probably) and ensemble voicings behind the bass solo.
Then there's "We Shall Overcome," the civil rights anthem that perfectly reflects the somber, inspirational dignity of the political themes that Haden explores with this unit. In theory, anyway, because after a minute-long stating the theme, this "We Shall Overcome" settles down into a basic blues and Ray Anderson's trombone solo just rips any semblance of solemnity right out of it. His irreverent whoops, growls and comic snorts rouses the rabble, riles the ever-discreet Motian into bashing out some big-time blues bombs, and just plain liberates the Orchestra to become a big band juggernaut. Ernie Watts' suave eloquence on tenor gets gospel church shout-outs of encouragement from the musician congregation, Allen goes deep barrelhouse with her solo and if you ever wondered what Charlie Haden would have sounded like as the walking blues anchor of Count Basie's orchestra...
Too bad the Liberation Music Orchestra is such a sporadic project for Haden or there'd undoubtedly be more transcendent moments like that. Can't say this is the pick of the group's discs or even of Haden's The Montreal Tapes series, but the musicians play up to the occasion (Geri Allen, in particular, shines) and man, that version of "We Shall Overcome..." ”
~ All Music Guide

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