Jazz Articles about Grateful Dead

The Dead Keep On: Truckin' Up to Buffalo

by Doug Collette
July 17, 2005

Grateful Dead Truckin' Up to Buffalo Grateful Dead Prod/Monterey Media 2005

A plethora of books have been published since the death of Grateful Dead founder/ leader Jerry Garcia ten years ago (in August). Written by insiders and bandmembers, factual and observed histories and journals, none capture the essence of this band like their music does and this new DVD recorded on the Fourth of July 1989 in Rich Stadium in Orchard Park NY, just ...

Beyond Description: Grateful Dead 1973-1989

by Doug Collette
November 13, 2004

Serendipity is dead... Grateful Dead that is. A successor to the similarly massive and comparably gorgeous box set The Golden Road (1965-1972) , Beyond Description (1973-1989) depicts the latter day Grateful Dead's utter and perhaps naïve willingness to surrender to their muse for inspiration, whether it be on the stage or in the studio. It becomes quite clear before you are even half-way through these dozen extended remastered CDs that, when this band was struck with inspiration, there ...

Grateful Dead: From the Archives and From the Road

by Doug Collette
August 14, 2004

“There is nothing like a Grateful Dead concert."

Originally spoken as a wondrous compliment to the seminal San Francisco band and its followers, the phrase eventually came to have multiple meanings as the group, its fanbase and its music changed. Judging from The Dead's recent two-night stand at the outside Boston, as well as two archive cd packages that clearly illustrate the contradictions of The Dead experience, the ambiguity is still there.

But, credit where credit is due, to a ...