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Muriel Grossman “Plays The Music Of McCoy Tyner and Grateful Dead” 2xLP
A: Walk Spirit Talk Spirit
B: Contemplation
C: The Music Never Stopped
D: The Other One
On the surface, McCoy Tyner and the Grateful Dead appear to come from different galaxies. But listen deeply, and it becomes clear: they were orbiting the same planet.
Strange but true. Weir metabolized Tyner’s harmonic density, left -hand power, and asymmetrical swing into a singular rhythm guitar language. Listen to “Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit” from Tyner’s Enlightenment (1973), then compare it to a long jam on “The Other One”—say, 5/10/72 from the Europe ’72 box. That centerless gravity, that rolling churn? Different instruments, same engine.
Muriel Grossmann’s project is a continuation: tracing Tyner’s influence as it threads through Weir and onward, then using it as an invitation to explore these compositions anew. Joined by Radomir Milojkovic on guitar, Abel Boquera on Hammond B3 organ, and Uros Stamenkovic on drums, she treats these four works not as artifacts to preserve, but as invitations to explore.
“We played this music using a sort of filter,” she says, “so it sounds like when I compose, record, and perform our own music. It’s somebody else’s music, but it sounds like our music.”—Muriel Grossmann, 2025
It would be easy to present this as a concept album. Tyner meets the Dead. Jazz meets jam. Two cultures, one filter. But that’s not what’s happening here.
Grossmann isn’t making a point. She’s making music.
MURIEL GROSSMANN - tenor and soprano saxophone,
harmonium, tambura, percussion
RADOMIR MILOJKOVIC - guitar
ABEL BOQUERA - Hammond B3 organ
UROS STAMENKOVIC - drums
Recorded at SONIC VISTA STUDIOS, November 21 and 22, 2024, Ibiza, Spain
Produced by MURIEL GROSSMANN and RADOMIR MILOJKOVIC
Recorded by HENRY SARMIENTO
Mixed & Mastered by FRANK JACOBSEN – SFJ-PRODUCTIONS
Lacquered for Vinyl by PHIL RODRIGUEZ at ELYSIAN MASTERS
Outer Sleeve & Gatefold Paintings by BLAKE DURIS
Gatefold Photos by SASCHA OSAKA
Typeface Design by DARIA KADUSHKINA
Label Paintings by VUKSAN STAMENKOVIC
Layout by ILJA TULIT
WALK SPIRIT TALK SPIRIT and CONTEMPLATION Composed by McCOY TYNER © Aisha Music (BMI)
THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED Composed by BOB WEIR and JOHN PERRY BARLOW © Ice Nine Publishing., Inc.
THE OTHER ONE Composed by JERRY GARCIA, DONNA JEAN GODCHAUX, BILL KREUTZMANN, PHIL LESH, RON McKERNAN, BOB WEIR © Ice Nine Publishing., Inc.