Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra

The Liberation Music Orchestra is a big band project by US-american jazz bassist Charlie Haden; jazz pianist Carla Bley is also one of the founders of the project. Their music is best characterized as some sort of big band free jazz, with the music dealing with rather revolutinary themes derived from the Spanish civil war, the rebellion and the civil wars in Latin America of the sixties and seventies, from the Vietnam war, and from the civil wars in Middle America. Some of the pieces are arrangements for big band of traditionals or songs from e.