The Ballad of the Fallen

The Ballad of the Fallen
Studio album by
Released1 October 1983
RecordedNovember 1982
GenreAvant-garde jazz, experimental big band
Length51:51
LabelECM 1248
ProducerManfred Eicher
Charlie Haden chronology
Time Remembers One Time Once
(1983)
The Ballad of the Fallen
(1983)
Quartet West
(1987)
Liberation Music Orchestra chronology
Liberation Music Orchestra
(1970)
The Ballad of the Fallen
(1983)
Dream Keeper
(1990)

The Ballad of the Fallen is a jazz album by bassist Charlie Haden, with arrangements by Carla Bley. It was recorded in November 1982 and released on ECM Records in October 1983.

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 appeared in the LMO's new incarnation with six new members.