Blue Light Rain

In a review for AllMusic, Jim Newsom wrote: "Longtime Dead listeners will recognize most of the melodies, but the arrangements and solos by this amazing quartet transform the originals... it is one of the most remarkable studio recordings to fall under the often-maligned jazz-rock fusion banner in many a year... Through this project, they and their bandmates bring musical adventurousness, rhythmic complexity and instrumental virtuosity to a whole new generation, while rekindling the spark in those who were around for fusion's heyday 25 years earlier. With Blue Light Rain, Jazz Is Dead affirms that this music anything but." ==Track listing==

• "Crazy Fingers" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 8:39 • "Unbroken Chain" (Phil Lesh, Robert Petersen) – 6:32 • "Scarlet Begonias" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 5:00 • "Dark Star" (Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter, Ron McKernan) – 9:08 • "Red Baron" (Billy Cobham) – 7:39 • "King Solomon's Marbles" (Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh) – 7:50 • "Blues for Allah Medley: Help on the Way" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 4:19 • "Blues for Allah Medley: Slipknot!" (Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia, Keith Godchaux, Phil Lesh) – 3:56 • "Blues for Allah Medley: Franklin's Tower" (Bill Kreutzmann, Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 0:50 • "Blues for Allah Medley: Spiral Staircase" (Alphonso Johnson, Billy Cobham, Jimmy Herring, T. Lavitz) – 2:47 == Personnel ==

Jazz Is Dead • Jimmy Herring – guitars • T. Lavitz – keyboards • Alphonso Johnson – bass • Billy Cobham – drums Production • Produced by Michael Gaiman • Executive producers: Ron Rainey, Ricky Schultz • Recording: David Vanderhaden • Mixing: Bill Cooper ==References==