Skip to content
Front pageBooksFilmMusicGamesSheet musicArticles
Digital productsAsk a librarianNew user?

Search

Bookmarks

Menu

Music / jazz

Grateful Deadication

Dave McMurray

Description

Summary: "[Dave McMurray] returns with Grateful Deadication, a cover album that turns one of the most celebrated catalogs in rock songwriting into a vehicle for his own jazz expression. McMurray transforms Grateful Dead favorites like "Fire on the mountain," "Dark star, "Touch of grey," and "Franklin's tower," and is joined by vocalist Bettye LaVette and Bob Weir, and Wolf Bros on a sublime version of "Loser."--Publisher.

Reviews (4)

AllMusic

2021

By

By

Thom Jurek

2021

"Grateful Deadication is as sophisticated as it is musical in presenting this complex and sometimes speculative music as welcoming, accessible, and danceable".

Read review

Glide magazine

d. 14. July 2021

By

By

Jim Hynes

d. 14. July 2021

"Throughout his career McMurray has played in several genres and most find a home here whether it be soul, reggae, rock, jazz, or funk. In that sense, it's not much different than the Dead as this writer recalls an Etta James New Year's Eve date at Winterland in the '80s where she proclaimed The Dead as "the best blues band on earth." So, having McMurray do an ostensible jazz album of Dead tunes is not any further afield than that. And he clearly puts his own stamp on these tunes".

Read review

LondonJazz news

d. 19. July 2021

By

By

John Bungey

d. 19. July 2021

"Grateful Deadication is a fun album, smartening up the Dead's quirky tunes and pushing them further towards the dancefloor. It's not exactly jazz - for that try David Murray's Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead from 1996, or guitarist Henry Kaiser's splendid twenty-minute mash-up of Dark Star and A Love Supreme on Eternity Blue - bonkers but it works".

Read review

Record collector

523 (2021 October)

By

By

Charles Waring

523 (2021 October)

"Detroit saxophone veteran Dave McMurray - who's blown his horn on records by everyone from Bob Dylan to Iggy Pop - plied his trade as a smooth jazz exponent in the 1990s and 2000s but offers something with a little more edge on Grateful Deadication. It's a tribute to acid rock gurus The Grateful Dead and finds him reworking ten of the group's tunes, including a great version of "Loser" featuring ex-Dead man Bob Weir and raspy-voiced singer Bettye LaVette".