Jazz Articles about Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead: Road Trips - Volume 2 Number 2

by Doug Collette
May 17, 2009

Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2 not only contains a complete show--2/14/68 at San Francisco's Carousel Ballroom--but in keeping with the original concept of this archive series, excerpts from other shows during The Grateful Dead's winter tour of that same year. Experimenting in a second attempt to record its follow-up Warner Bros. album Anthem of the Sun (1968), this juncture is a pivotal period for the halcyon group and these performances find The Dead on the cusp of dance band ...

Grateful Dead: To Terrapin - Hartford '77

by Doug Collette
May 16, 2009

Grateful Dead To Terrapin - Hartford '77 Grateful Dead/Rhino 2009Well before the near 20-minute version of “Sugaree" included here is over, any thoughts of hype surrounding the Grateful Dead archive camp around this release has dissipated. The sense of direction and collective eye for detail that the band displays on the track permeates the whole of To Terrapin - Hartford '77.

Weaving in and out of the alternate vocal and instrumental improvisation ...

The Grateful Dead: To Terrapin: May 28, 1977 Hartford, CT

by Mike Perciaccante
May 14, 2009

Though Jerry Garcia has long passed into the great beyond, The Grateful Dead and its record labels have continued to dig deep into the vaults to release high-quality live concert performances. Between the Dick's Picks series and the other legendary shows that are finally seeing a proper re-mastered release, there is always a new Dead recording on the horizon. To Terrapin: May 28, 1977 Hartford, CT is one such release. 1977 was a simpler time. Yes, change was in the ...

Grateful Dead: Road Trips - Volume 2 Number 1

by Doug Collette
January 17, 2009

Grateful Dead Road Trips - Volume 2 Number 1 Grateful Dead/Rhino 2008

Even before listening to the music, owners of the latest instalment of the Grateful Dead's archive series Road Trips, now inaugurating its second volume with a September 1990 show from Madison Square Garden, might do well to read Dan Levy's endearing recollections of his attendance at the shows.

The author of the liner notes spends much of his space detailing the contributions ...

Grateful Dead: Rocking The Cradle - Egypt 1978

by Doug Collette
January 3, 2009

Grateful Dead Rocking The Cradle - Egypt 1978 Grateful Dead/Rhino 2008

If there was ever a Grateful Dead adventure that deserved assiduous archiving, it has to be their 1978 journey to Egypt, when they gave three concerts at the foot of the Great Pyramid. Rocking the Cradle - Egypt 1978, a two-CD (plus bonus disc) and DVD set, serves however to illustrate what a “you had to be there" experience the band's trip to ...

Grateful Dead: Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978

by Mike Perciaccante
December 6, 2008

Marking the thirtieth anniversary of its historic 1978 concerts in Egypt, the Grateful Dead's two-CD/one-DVD Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978 documents the legendary performances in front of the pyramids at Giza. The CDs are compiled from performances recorded on September 15th and 16th, with the DVD taken from the September 16th show, during which there was a lunar eclipse.

The band rolls through a fine set featuring classic Dead songs as well as a 15-minute version of “Shakedown ...

Grateful Dead: Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings

by Doug Collette
June 29, 2008

Grateful Dead Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings Grateful Dead/Rhino 2008The Grateful Dead's Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings appears a little over two years after its original release was aborted a few months prior to the band's business affiliation with Rhino Records was made official. The release of this nine-disc box (plus full-length bonus disc) institutes a new thrust in the archiving of Grateful Dead recordings. In a logical extension from ...