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Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 24

Label: Real Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: U.S. Blues; Promised Land; Brown-Eyed Woman; Black-Throated Wind; Scarlet Begonias; Beat It On Down the Line; Deal; Cassidy; China Cat Sunflower; I Know You Rider; Weather Report Suite; Playing in the Band; Uncle John’s Band; Morning Dew; Uncle John’s Band; Playing in the Band; Big River; Bertha; Wharf Rat; Sugar Magnolia.

Article: Year in Review

Eyal Hareuveni Best of 2013 List

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 19, 2013

There were so many great releases in 2013 that inspired me, provoked my conceptions about music and art, disturbed my peace of mind and mainly, enriched my life. This list--presented in no particular order and enhanced with video and Soundcloud clips--represents the tip of my listening iceberg. Kitchen Orchestra with Alexander von ...

Article: Profile

Being Grateful: Defining the Jazz Years Part One - 1973

by Jacob Hobson
December 9, 2013

Jazz, like the Grateful Dead, has never been particularly easy to define. It seems jazz, in its most simply defined meaning, is improvised music. The Grateful Dead have been called a thousand different things since its official formation in 1965, but has rarely been called a jazz band. There have always been and will always be ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Ornette Coleman / Bachir Attar / The Master Musicians of Jajouka:The Road to Jajouka

by Ian Patterson
September 27, 2013

Bringing together Moroccan traditional trance musicians with free spirits such as saxophonists Ornette Coleman and John Zorn, bassist/producer Bill Laswell, guitarist Marc Ribot, DJ Logic and drummer Billy Martin has instant appeal. It sounds like an andrenaline-pumping, trippy exercise on paper and for much of the journey it's just that. And it's all for a good ...

Article: What is Jazz?

Improvising Art: From Jam Bands to Jazz

by Jacob Hobson
September 9, 2013

The author Kurt Vonnegut once said, “Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow." The art of improvisation does just that: it makes the soul grow. The soul of the improvising performer is constantly stretched and twisted in search of that unnamed spiritual experience in which lasting ...

Article: Live Review

The Black Crowes at Lake Champlain Maritime Festival

by Doug Collette
September 8, 2013

The Black CrowesWaterfront ParkLake Champlain Maritime FestivalBurlington, VermontAugust 17, 2013Was the Black Crowes show August 17th Waterfront Park one of the best shows in Burlington's history? Perhaps, perhaps not, but there's no denying the band executed a dynamic set with a confidence and expertise that wholly belies its volatile ...

Article: Live Review

Jeff Ballard Fairgrounds: Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, July 10, 2013

by Ian Patterson
July 16, 2013

Jeff Ballard FairgroundsPavilion TheatreDun Laoghaire, IrelandJuly 10, 2013Fairgrounds is as good a name as any for drummer Jeff Ballard's new band. The best fairgrounds are places that take you away from everyday humdrum and transport you temporarily to an alternative world where fun, the curious and outlandish, and adrenalin rushes are ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Volume 6

by Doug Collette
July 7, 2013

Dave's Picks Volume 6 represents an important entry in this Grateful Dead archive series, on its own terms and as a crucial reminder of how this iconic band evolved around the cusp of the 1960's and the 1970's. Plus which, the sound quality of the recordings, originally administered by the famous Owsley “Bear" Stanley, is as ...

Article: Album Review

Youn Sun Nah: Lento

by Ian Patterson
May 13, 2013

Youn Sun Nah's rejection of a multi-record deal with French outfit Label Bleu to preserve her artistic freedom indicated that a change was in the air, following five recordings with her French 5tet band. Signed up by German label ACT, Nah released two critically and commercially successful albums, Voyage (2009) and Same Girl (2010), with the ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 24

by Skip Heller
April 21, 2013

The plethora of available live Grateful Dead material might be a completist's delight, but it can make for a nightmare for the consumer who just wants a few really good discs. This was a truly multifaceted band, with every facet documented to the point of exhaustion (or even tedium, depending who you ask). At their rootsy ...