Jerry Garcia

The Unlikely Story of Cannonball Adderley's Rise to the Top

by Alan Bryson
August 13, 2025

For me, the most gripping music stories are the tales of “overnight sensations." In the jazz sphere, we have our share. There is the story of an eighteen-year-old Billie Holiday, discovered by producer John Hammond while she was a hostess in a Harlem club. There is the tale of a seventeen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald, whose triumphant debut ...

BEATrio At National Concert Hall

by Ian Patterson
July 15, 2025

BEATrio National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland July 7, 2025 Some stars take longer than others to align. In the case of BEATrio, the supergroup of drummer Antonio Sánchez, harpist Edmar Castañeda and banjoist Béla Fleck, you could say that the stars took 16 years to line up. BEATrio might ...

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 ...

Savage & Smit: Of Course

by Mike Jurkovic
February 11, 2025

It was pretty much etched in stone that by the middle of the Grateful Dead's second set--and those second sets of its post-Jerry Garcia spin-offs--there occurred a period of musical and mental improvisation they wisely named “Space." That indefinite stretch of musical time aptly defines the dreamscapes within of course. Hosted by the Hudson Valley collaborative ...

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 ...

Walter van de Leur: Jazz & Death, Part 1��A Closer Walk With Thee

by Ian Patterson
April 11, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 What is jazz? Beacon of the oppressed; music of New Orleans bordellos; popular dance music; revolutionary music; high-art music with an established cannon; progressive music that absorbs and grows; hermetic traditional music... Jazz has always meant different things to different people. Even the term 'jazz' is political ...

Dolomiti Ski Jazz - Edizione 2024

by Paolo Peviani
March 19, 2024

Dolomiti Ski Jazz--Edizione 2024 Val di Fiemme, Val di Fassa, Val di Cembra 8-17.3.2024 Concerti nei teatri e nelle terrazze dei rifugi, jam session nei pub, street parade nelle vie dei paesi a fondo valle. Il tutto contornato da paesaggi, montagne e piste da sci di rara bellezza. Da ventisei anni ...

Ace - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2CD)

By Bob Weir

Label: Rhino
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: Greatest Story Ever Told; Black-Throated Wind; Walk In The Sunshine; Playing In The Band; Looks Like Rain; Mexicali Blues; One More Saturday Night; Cassidy. CD 2: Greatest Story Ever Told; Black- Throated Wind; Walk In The Sunshine; Playing In The Band; Looks Like Rain; Mexicali Blues Intro; Mexicali Blues; One More Saturday Night; Cassidy.

RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. 6/10/73

By Grateful Dead

Label: Rhino
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD 1: Morning Dew; Beat It On Down The Line; Ramble On Rose; Jack Straw; Wave That Flag; Looks Like Rain; Box Of Rain; They Love Each Other; The Race Is On; Row Jimmy; El Paso. CD 2: Bird Song; Playing In The Band; Eyes Of The World>Stella Blue; Big River; Here Comes Sunshine; CD 3: Around And Around; Dark Star>He's Gone>Wharf Rat>Truckin'; Sugar Magnolia. CD 4: It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry; That's All Right; Promised Land; Not Fade Away>Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad>Drums>Not Fade Away; Johnny B. Goode.