Jerry Garcia - Garcialive Volume Nine: August 11Th, 1974 Keystone Berkeley '2017

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GarciaLive Volume Nine presents Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders’s August
11th, 1974 performance at Keystone in Berkeley, CA. Joining Garcia & Saunders
this evening were John Kahn on bass, Martin Fierro on saxophone & flute and the
Grateful Dead’s Bill Kreutzmann on drums. As the site of over 200
performances by Garcia in various configurations, the Keystone Berkeley stage
likely felt more like an extension of the Saunders’ family garage where
the group would often practice. It was a space without pressure or pretense one
in which they could freely experiment with arrangements, new repertoire and,
most of all, just play.

Saunders’ influence on Garcia’s musical development is plainly
heard on GarciaLive Volume Nine. As Garcia once noted in an interview,
“[Saunders] filled me in on all those years of things I didn’t do.
I’d never played any standards; I’d never played in dance bands. I
never had any approach to the world of regular, straight music. He knew all the
standards, and he taught me how bebop works. He taught me music.” While
the evening’s setlist focuses primarily on standards, the approach is
anything but regular or straight. A free-spirited version of The Four
Tops’s R&B classic “Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve
Got)”, one of the evening’s easy highlights, showcases Garcia &
Saunders’ ability to reimagine standards through inventive arrangements
and fiery virtuosity permeated with soul. Other standouts from this performance
include a surging “(I’m A) Roadrunner” and an extended take
on Jimmy Cliff’s “The Harder They Come” (listen here) which
clocks in at nearly 20 minutes.

Tracklist:

CD1
01. Jerry Garcia - Thats What Love Will Make You Do
02. Jerry Garcia - La La
03. Jerry Garcia - It Aint No Use
04. Jerry Garcia - Mystery Train

CD2
01. Jerry Garcia - The Harder They Come
02. Jerry Garcia - Aint No Woman
03. Jerry Garcia - Its Too Late
04. Jerry Garcia - Road Runner
05. Jerry Garcia - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

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