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. Murray was a fan of the Grateful Dead, and joined band and its members as a guest at several live concerts. The Octet plays on the first six tracks, and the last is duo with Murray and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead on acoustic guitar.
Track listing "Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:54 "Samson and Delilah" (Traditional) – 11:12 "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:55 "Dark Star" (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 16:15 "China Doll" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:17 "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 8:29 "Shoulda Had Been Me" (Cockburn, Nash, Weir) – 5:06 Recorded on January 17–18, 1996 at Clinton Recording Studios, New York, NY
Personnel David Murray – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet Hugh Ragin – trumpet James Zoller or Omar Kabir – trumpets Craig Harris – trombone James Spaulding – alto saxophone, flute Robert Irving III – piano, hammond B-3 organ, synthesizer Fred Hopkins – bass Renzell Meritt – drums Bob Weir – guitar (7)
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