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Grateful Dead

Active since: 1965

Grateful Dead: Idiosyncratic Improvisationalists

by Doug Collette
March 8, 2025

As the Grateful Dead morphed from an eccentric folk-blues group into an eclectic jam juggernaut, the band adopted an idiosyncratic approach to improvisation they would then hone over three decades. Regular shifts of personnel nurtured an ongoing alteration of the Dead's musicianship, as did the growing wealth of original material the group interspersed with a wide ...

The Silver Snarling Trumpet - The Birth of the Grateful Dead: The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter

by Doug Collette
January 18, 2025

The Silver Snarling Trumpet -The Birth of the Grateful Dead: The Lost Manuscript of Robert HunterRobert Hunter256 Pages ISBN: #978-0306835155 Hachette Book Group2024 Notwithstanding occasional recordings under his own name and his even more rare live performances, the late Robert Hunter maintained a decidedly low public profile during ...

Phil Lesh

Born: March 15, 1940

Phil Lesh was an American musician best known as the bassist for the Grateful Dead, a band that became iconic in the rock and jam band scenes. Born on March 15, 1940, in Berkeley, California, Lesh played a crucial role in the band's experimental and improvisational approach to music, blending rock, jazz, and classical influences.

Lesh's innovative bass playing and harmony vocals contributed significantly to the Grateful Dead's signature sound. After the band dissolved in 1995, he continued to perform with various projects, including Phil Lesh & Friends, and participated in numerous tribute concerts and festivals celebrating the band's legacy

The Blues According To Rory Block

by C. Michael Bailey
October 20, 2024

Being a household name depends as much on the household as it does the name. Not all reading this will know who Rory Block is, but in the households with fans of the rural blues, slide guitar and innovative women in music, to not know would be criminal. Born in Princeton, New Jersey, Block grew up ...

At Monterey Jazz Festival 67, Jazz Gospel According to a New Head

by Josef Woodard
October 11, 2024

Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey, CA September 27-29, 2024 Getting a semblance of a summarizing angle on a densely-programmed jazz festival, which the 67th Monterey Jazz Festival most certainly was, can be tricky business. The equation gets more complex with a festival geared towards covering many genre and sub-genre bases within ...

Jazz Mafia's Grateful Brass Jerry Garcia Birthday Celebration

by Steven Roby
July 29, 2024

In this enlightening interview, host Steve Roby speaks with Adam Theis, the trombonist, bassist, composer, and co-founder of Jazz Mafia. Throughout their conversation, Adam shares the origin story of Jazz Mafia, which began in the late 1990s in San Francisco's North Beach at a venue called Black Cat. Adam describes how the venue's manager encouraged musicians ...

Jazz Is Dead at Nectar's

by Doug Collette
June 11, 2024

Jazz Is Dead Nectar's Burlington, Vermont June 4, 2024 Originally spearheaded in 1998 by drummer extraordinaire Billy Cobham (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis), Jazz Is Dead has incorporated more than a few different personnel configurations over the course of its quarter-century plus existence. Having coalesced most recently to feature guitarists Steve Kimock ...

Moving Music: The Memoirs Of Rikki Stein

by Chris May
May 11, 2024

Moving Music: The Memoirs Of Rikki Stein Rikki Stein 304 Pages ISBN: 9781739103095 Wordville Press2024 The autobiography of Rikki Stein--longtime friend and manager of Afrobeat creator Fela Kuti, and a key player in the historic meeting between Ornette Coleman and the Master Musicians of Joujouka, among much, much ...

Bob Weir and Others at the Jazz Foundation of America Gala Concert at the Apollo Theater

by Paul Reynolds
April 3, 2024

Bob Weir, Marshall Allen, Jazzmeia Horn, Dee Dee Bridgewater, et al.The Apollo Theater Jazz Federation of America Gala New York, NY March 28, 2024 At gala concerts for worthy groups, it's understandably easy for the music to play second fiddle to the organization itself--and the desire to support it. ...