Track Listing

1. Morning in Marin
2. Birg Song
3. South Side Strut
4. Up from the Desert
5. DC-502
6. One A.M. Approach
7. Uncle Martini's
8. Evening in Marin

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46103 in Music
• Released on: 2009-10-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .13 pounds

Album Description
"Garcia brings a quality and pure tonality that he would rarely revisit, either on his own or in the context of the Grateful Dead." -- All Music Guide

* A classic, this record is Jerry Garcia's first non-Grateful Dead work!
* Special digipak reissue never available before in America features stunning art by Mati Klarwein.
* Hooteroll? shows early-era Dead influence, yet incorporates the years of experience accrued by Garcia. Some very unique music is created in this session, and lets the listener see how Garcia could branch out to do something different--more experimental, more off-the-cuff, and more spontaneous.
* Using a seven-piece band and implementing organs, sax, trumpet, guitars, bass, and drums, kaleidoscopic musical waves and journeys combine to make a very diverse and jam-filled record.

Howard Wales: organ, piano
Jerry Garcia: guitar
John Kahn: bass
Curly Cook: rhythm guitar
Bill Vitt, Michael Marinelli: drums
Ken Balzall: trumpet
Martin Fierro: saxophone, flute

Amazon.com
Grateful Dead guitarist/icon Jerry Garcia was involved in any number of side projects during his illustrious career, but few as adventurous or musically far-ranging as this 1971 collaboration with keyboardist Howard Wales and a handful of other Bay Area musicians (including Garcia Band cohorts John Kahn and Bill Vitt). On his first album release outside the Dead, Garcia seldom takes center stage, instead seasoning a diverse collection of instrumentals with spare, tasty trademark fills and some propulsive funk- and R&B-inspired rhythm work. Selections like "South Side Strut" underscore Wales previous work in service of James Brown and the Four Tops, but range as far a field as the Bitches Brew-lite free form jazz of *Morning in Marin* to the gorgeous, ethereal Garcia showcase "One A.M. Approach." --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

A Trip To What Next?
Enjoy Hooteroll? and Side Trips Vol. 1 for the fantastic Hammond playing by Howard Wales and it doesn't hurt that JG comes along with the package. I have owned the original Hooteroll? release on Lp record since the mid 1970's and was spoiled by Howard's playing. He squeezes every button on the B3 and pushes the Leslie to it's limits using every tweak and whistle the horn can throw. I've seen several good Hammond players live throughout the years but none of them pushed it to the limits like Howard does and I've always walked away from those concerts feeling somewhat disappointed. My only disappointment with the CD release of Hooteroll? is the fact that one of the better songs where Howard really pushes the envelope was left off the CD. What happened to "A Trip To What Next"? The song was replaced by "Evening In Marin" which is a re mix or second take of "Up From The Desert". It would have been a gem to include all the material on the new CD. Hopefully "A Trip To What Next" will be released on Side Trips Vol. 2. Hooteroll? If your a Garcia fan and haven't heard it... your in for a treat. One of the best projects in Jerry's discography.

A great find for the Jerry fan
From the multicolored artwork to the spaced out guitar and organs this is a classic piece of 70's pop-jazz (just kind of made up that category but it's hard to call this fusion). It sounds like Jerry was exploring some of the same ground Miles Davis was exploring but he still keeps the music in the Grateful Dead genre. The results are a little different but make for an enjoyable journey that any fan of the dead or Garcia should enjoy.

The Funkadelic & the Mellow Jerry Garcia
This is a brilliant album from beginning to end. It alternates between high energy, fired-up, funky organ, drum & bass driven tracks with fuzz guitar solos akin to Funkadelic's first album & James Brown or Brian Auger and beautiful, trippy instrumental ballads.

The up-tempo tracks have the rhythm section cookin' and Howard Wales smokin' on the organ with Garcia grooving along and completely at home with the tunes in funky Eddie Hazel fuzz-guitar land and sometimes even venturing into Reggie Lucas/Pete Cosey land of the Miles Davis "Agharta" album. Then you have the slow tracks "Up from the Desert," "One A.M. Approach" & "Midnight in Marin" which are gorgeous compositions with definitely the best Garcia electric playing I've personally ever heard. These are what I always play first for anyone who says they don't understand what's so great about Jerry Garcia. The man is a deeply soulful cat who values feeling more than superficial chops and that's what great music is all about in the end

This is also the album many people will like who aren't big fans of the Grateful Dead because it's a bit more of a departure into a grittier, jazzy urban sound , away from their more countrified, hick influences and from Garcia's bluegrass influenced recordings.

Highest recommendation and one to pull out as the ultimate demonstration of Garcia's hippie-renaissance-man versatility.