Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead

Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead is an album by the David Murray Octet released on Astor Place. It was released in 1996 and contains Murray's versions of compositions by the Grateful Dead. The Octet plays on the first six tracks, and the last is a Murray solo, accompanied only by Bob Weir on acoustic guitar.

Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead
Studio album by
Released1996
RecordedJanuary 17–18, 1996
GenreJazz
Length61:05
LabelAstor Place
ProducerHerbie Miller
David Murray chronology
Flowers Around Cleveland
(1995)
Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead
(1996)
Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen
(1996)
Professional ratings
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SourceRating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[1]

Track listing

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  1. "Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:54
  2. "Samson and Delilah" (Traditional) – 11:12
  3. "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:55
  4. "Dark Star" (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 16:15
  5. "China Doll" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:17
  6. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 8:29
  7. "Shoulda Had Been Me" (Cockburn, Nash, Weir) – 5:06
  • Recorded on January 17–18, 1996 at Clinton Recording Studios, New York, NY

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1060. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.