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Playing Grateful Dead songs with Bob Weir

Playing Grateful Dead songs with Bob Weir: Don Was remembers

The Grammy winner and Blue Note label head recalls the unique challenges and rewards he faced when the late Bob Weir recruited him for an intimate new project in 2018.

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A Grateful Dead scholar remembers Bob Weir

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Bob Weir made the Grateful Dead

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Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Rhythm Guitarist, Dead at 78

Veteran rock ‍musician Bob Weir, co-founder ⁠of the Grateful ‌Dead, has died at ‌age ‍78, after a ⁠battle with cancer from "underlying lung issues," according to a statement posted on his verifi...

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Grateful Dead Archivist Remembers Bob Weir: ‘A Guitar Player Unlike Any Other’

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‘The last actual hippie’: musicians pay tribute to Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir

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Grateful Dead legend Bob Weir’s cause of death revealed. Here’s what we know

“Diagnosed in July, he began treatment only weeks before returning to his hometown stage for a three-night celebration of 60 years of music at Golden Gate Park.

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Bruce Hornsby, Andy Cohen, and More Remember ‘Impossibly Beautiful and Wildly Fiery’ Bob Weir

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Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir Dies at 78

Musician Don Was returns home to metro Detroit with new jazz project

His nine-piece Pan-Detroit Ensemble, a jazzy jam band, will bring their massive sound to Ann Arbor's Blue Llama Jazz Club this weekend.

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The Roots playing WhyHunger benefit at Irving Plaza ++ Questlove joined Robert Glasper at Blue Note (video)

WhyHunger, a non-profit working to end hunger, is launching its Hungerthon fundraising campaign with its second annual Amplified concert. It happens on October 15 at Irving Plaza, with The Roots, Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge, and to be announced special ...

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Jazz: Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble playing two shows in Colorado

Few in music are as successfully eclectic as Don Was, a bassist, producer, bandleader and record label president.

Los Angeles Times

Can Blue Note become the new hot spot for L.A. jazz?

Danny Bensusan opened the Blue Note in Greenwich Village in 1981 and helped it quickly became home to some of the biggest names in jazz. Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson and Lionel Hampton are just some of the iconic acts who played there ...

Las Vegas Weekly

Blue Note Quintet’s Immanuel Wilkins sheds lights on the current state of jazz

John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter—just hearing these names can evoke memorized melodies. Beyond their enduring influence on jazz, these musicians share a profound connection through the revered Blue Note Records.

NPR

Is André 3000 in his jazz era?

Around halfway through a set during his Blue Note residency last Thursday, André 3000 took some time to survey his tools. The musician crouched over a rug arrayed with around a dozen varieties of the flute — the instrument that's come to symbolize the ...

Forbes

Q&A: Behind The Blue Note Brand And Rich Legacy Of Great Jazz

After his father, Danny Bensusan founded the first Blue Note club in 1981, Blue Note President Steven Bensusan grew up in the world of jazz legends, from Chick Corea to McCoyTyner. So even as the brand has expanded globally, to having clubs in Milan, Rio ...

Indy Week

How the Blue Note Grill Keeps Its Rhythm In a Changing City

Pull open the door to the Blue Note Grill in Durham, and you’re likely to be met with wailing blues and the rich smell of barbecue. And friends. Some you know and some you’ve yet to meet, in a crowd so welcoming no one stays a stranger for long.