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Jazz is Dead is an instrumental Grateful Dead cover band that interprets classic Dead songs with jazzy influences instrumentally. There have been different line-ups over time with T Lavitz being the only mainstay off all of them. Three years after the Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia died, the first line-up of Jazz Is Dead released their first album, Blue Light Rain, which is in fact the first lyrical line from the song "Unbroken Chain". Check our available Jazz Is Dead concert ticket inventory and get your tickets here at ConcertBank now. Sign up for an email alert to be notified the moment we have tickets!


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The live recording, GREAT SKY RIVER, is the third release from the fusion-jam band, Jazz Is Dead. For those of you who don't know, the band derives its name from the fact that they only play Grateful Dead songs. Although whether it's "jazz" is debatable. Live is the perfect setting for this band. Cut loose from the confines of the studio, they burn their way through a host of Dead favorites. If you can imagine the Dead as an instrumental fusion band, then you know what to expect here...
- www.jazzreview.com
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When the word "Groovy" was developed as a word in the English language it was specifically meant to describe the vibes given off by the sensational new fusion group Jazz is Dead. Don't let the group's name throw you for a loop; the group embarks on a quest to explore music done by the Grateful Dead done in a whole new jazzy fusion fashion. Hence the name, Jazz is Dead. With these four distinguished musicians I expected nothing but the best from Jazz is Dead; and they delivered...
- www.jazzreview.com
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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 guitar choruses with fleet-fingered, grooving organ. "Row Jimmy" has a laid-back country-rock feel...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
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Track Listing: China Cat Sunflower; Estimated Prophet; St. Stephen/The Eleven; Drums & Jam; Blues For Allah; Terrapin Station/Dark Star; Terrapin 2; Morning Dew. Personnel: Jimmy Herring, guitar; Alphonso Johnson, bass and Chapman stick; T Lavitz, keyboards; Rod Morgenstein, drums. Style: Fusion/Progressive Rock One of America's hottest jam bands continues to mine the bottomless repertoire of the Grateful Dead...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
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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 they reinterpret the Dead's modal tunes from 1973. Fortunately you don't have to be a Deadhead to appreciate this album...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
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Style: Fusion/Progressive Rock Read more reviews of Laughing Water 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 might still find it rewarding...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
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Grateful Dead fans or "deadheads" who demand only the finest from those who cover Dead tunes or in this case, a complete rendition of the Dead's classic "Wake Of The Flood" LP should find much to get excited about here. Jazz is Dead, touted as one of the best "jam bands" on the globe have carved out a nifty if somewhat deeply personalized stylization of this - crossroads - LP from those rock icons of year's past...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
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Style: Straightahead/Mainstream Read more reviews of Laughing Water 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...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
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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 Dead interprets the entire 1973 Grateful Dead, WAKE OF THE FLOOD album...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
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