The Friday Morning Listen
Written by Mark Saleski
Published June 04, 2004
Published June 04, 2004
Part of Friday Morning Listen
Blues for Allah Project - Joe Gallant and Illuminati
My favorite Grateful Dead album is Blues For Allah. It's full of twisty instrumentals. That's my thing. Of course, one of my other things is interesting covers of well-known music.
Bassist Joe Gallant's Illuminati is a 20 piece sorta big band. On this record they key off of the improvisational nature of the tunes and drive them to their logical limit.
It's nothing but big fun. Honest.
(First posted on Mark Is Cranky)
Mark Saleski is a writer and music obsessive based out of the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. On his best day, he hopes to channel the ghosts of Lester Bangs and Jack Kerouac. He spends the hours of 9:32PM to 1:37AM carving out music reviews and essays for Jazz.com, Blogcritics.org and other publications.Keep reading for information and comments on this article, and add some feedback of your own!
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Blues For Allah is also very near the top of my Dead list, although I probably value the deep Americana roots of American Beauty and Working Man's Dead in the final analysis, but Blues is deep and beautiful in other ways.