Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead is an album by the David Murray Octet released on Astor Place. It was released in 1996 and contains Murray's versions of compositions by the Grateful Dead. The Octet plays on the first six tracks, and the last is a Murray solo, accompanied only by Bob Weir on acoustic guitar.

Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead
Studio album by David Murray Octet
Released	1996
Recorded	January 17–18, 1996
Genre	Jazz
Length	61:05
Label	Astor Place
Producer	Herbie Miller
David Murray chronology
Flowers Around Cleveland (1995) Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead (1996) Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen (1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[1]

Track listing

1. "Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:54
2. "Samson and Delilah" (Traditional) – 11:12
3. "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:55
4. "Dark Star" (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 16:15
5. "China Doll" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:17
6. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 8:29
7. "Shoulda Had Been Me" (Cockburn, Nash, Weir) – 5:06

• Recorded on January 17–18, 1996 at Clinton Recording Studios, New York, NY

Personnel

• David Murray – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
• Hugh Ragin – trumpet
• James Zoller or Omar Kabir – trumpets
• Craig Harris – trombone
• James Spaulding – alto saxophone, flute
• Robert Irving III – piano, hammond B-3 organ, synthesizer
• Fred Hopkins – bass
• Renzell Meritt – drums
• Bob Weir – guitar (7)

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