tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post233352210212526080..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: November 20, 1966: Jon Hendricks & the DeadLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-76939806231204368902018-09-04T10:58:53.932-07:002018-09-04T10:58:53.932-07:00Another Ralph Gleason article in the 12/18/66 San ...Another Ralph Gleason article in the 12/18/66 San Francisco Examiner, "The Purblind Attitudes of Jazz," complained about jazz players who closed their ears to rock music, and noted a few exceptions: <br />“Dizzy Gillespie...has always listened to...the rhythm & blues records on the air. He now has a bass player who plays the electric bass. Charles Lloyd has used an electric guitarist, Robbie Robertson who played with Bob Dylan, on recordings. Cannonball Adderley has been fascinated with the sounds of the Jefferson Airplane (especially those of the bassist Jack Casady) and of the Grateful Dead and the Paul Butterfield Band, and Miles Davis reportedly dug Bob Dylan and was once close to going on a concert tour with him.<br />But many jazzmen view the rock boom as a threat. 'They've stolen our beatnik audience,' Leo Wright said...” <br /><br />Robertson had played on a couple tracks on Charles Lloyd's Of Course, Of Course sessions in 1965. I don't know how much Miles dug Dylan, but at this point Miles hadn't 'gone electric' yet. Dizzy Gillespie was at the Human Be-In on 1/14/67, commenting on the Dead to Ralph Gleason, "Who are those guys? They sure can swing." (It might've helped that Charles Lloyd was with them.) Charles Mingus watched the Dead's Central Park show on 6/8/67, surprised by the big crowd, and talked with Lesh afterwards. (But Lesh admitted, "I was way too intimidated to ask what he thought about our sound.")<br /><br />In the November article, Gleason mentions the Airplane (and the Butterfield band) working with Cannonball Adderley's group in several sessions, on 'Mercy, Mercy, Mercy' and other tracks; but I'm guessing this was a false rumor since I haven't read about it elsewhere. The Airplane were far less jazz-oriented than other SF bands like the Dead, even if they'd played the Monterey Jazz Festival.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-7500830664006890222018-06-25T14:52:46.166-07:002018-06-25T14:52:46.166-07:00Gleason mentions Jon Hendricks appearing with Jeff...Gleason mentions Jon Hendricks appearing with Jefferson Airplane at Monterey. This was the Monterey Jazz Festival in September '66 - Hendricks had been the MC at that event too, and had sung or scatted onstage with the Airplane. (There's even a picture.) <br />So it's a tantalizing possibility that he might have sung with the Dead at this show... <br />I still wonder how the Dead were chosen to work with him in the studio! Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com