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Laughing Water

Label: Zebra Records
Released: 2000

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Jazz is Dead: Laughing Water

Read "Laughing Water" reviewed by Dave Hughes


On their sophomore release, Laughing Water, Jazz is Dead continues their mission of presenting the catalog of the Grateful Dead in sort of a country-rock context, with occasional classical, gospel, and jazz flavoring. It's unpretentious, infectious jamming by musicians with virtuoso chops to burn. The exuberant “Let Me Sing Your Blues Away" (not a vocal) alternates ...

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Jazz is Dead: Laughing Water

Read "Laughing Water" reviewed by Dave Hughes


On their sophomore release, Jazz is Dead continues their mission of presenting the catalog of the Grateful Dead in sort of a country-rock context, with occasional classical, gospel, and jazz flavoring.  It's unpretentious, infectious jamming by musicians with virtuoso chops to burn.  The exhuberant "Let Me Sing Your Blues Away" (not a vocal) alternates hard-driving edgy ...

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Laughing Water

Label: Zebra Records
Released: 1999

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Jazz Is Dead: Laughing Water

Read "Laughing Water" reviewed by David Adler


Essentially a Grateful Dead repertory ensemble, Jazz Is Dead boasts a fusion dream lineup: T. Lavitz on keyboards, Alphonso Johnson on bass, Rod Morgenstein (or Jeff Sipe) on drums, and rising star Jimmy Herring on guitar. If you like the Grateful Dead and know their songs, you'll probably warm to this disc. If you don't, you ...

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Jazz Is Dead: Laughing Water

Read "Laughing Water" reviewed by Ed Kopp


On Laughing Water, the fusion ensemble Jazz Is Dead one-ups the band that it sets out to honor. Laughing Water is a superior remake of the Grateful Dead's rather ordinary rock album Wake of the Flood.Jazz is Dead's core musicians Jimmy Herring (guitar), T Lavitz (keys) and Alphonso Johnson (bass) trade melodic licks as ...

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Jazz Is Dead: Laughing Water

Read "Laughing Water" reviewed by Paula Edelstein


Now that you know the group’s name is an announcement of their respect for the vast collection of Grateful Dead compositions and not a proclaimation of the death of jazz, you are in for more flawless musicianship and wicked jazz-rock fusion. On their second release for Zebra Records, the critically acclaimed jazz-rock fusion quartet Jazz Is ...


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