Pure Jerry: Coliseum, Hampton, VA, November 9, 1991

An orange guitar pick with a "JGB" design, a hand-written set list, a Merriweather Post Pavilion ticket stub, a Keystone Berkeley napkin, two photos of Jerry Garcia as a stage magician conjuring a guitar from out of a hat, and a backstage pass for the Jerry Garcia Band

Live album by Jerry Garcia Band

Released

August 1, 2006

Recorded

November 9, 1991

Genre

Rock, rhythm and blues

Label

Jerry Made

Jerry Garcia Band chronology

Pure Jerry: Warner Theatre, March 18, 1978
(2005)

Pure Jerry: Coliseum, Hampton, VA, November 9, 1991
(2006)

Pure Jerry: Bay Area 1978
(2009)

Jerry Garcia chronology

Well-Matched: The Best of Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia
(2006)

Pure Jerry: Coliseum, Hampton, VA, November 9, 1991
(2006)

The Very Best of Jerry Garcia
(2006)

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Pure Jerry: Coliseum, Hampton, VA, November 9, 1991 is a two-CD live album by the Jerry Garcia Band. It contains the complete show recorded on November 9, 1991, at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia. The seventh in the Pure Jerry series of archival concert albums, it was released on August 1, 2006.

For this concert, the regular lineup of the Jerry Garcia Band was augmented by Bruce Hornsby, who sat in on electric piano for the entire show.

A statement on the back cover of the album says, "This package contains CDs compiled from two-track, soundboard tapes that are not to be mistaken for or confused with fully produced studio masters. For as much as any other purpose, these recordings are offered to honor the electrifying spiritual, social and historical aspects of the Jerry Garcia Band's concert of November 9, 1991. Enjoy this marvelous music with our assurance that every step has been taken to present it in a way that faithfully celebrates its original performance."

On Allmusic, William Ruhlmann wrote, "... the Jerry Garcia Band (JGB) achieved its highest level of exposure in 1991. That August, Arista Records released the double live album Jerry Garcia Band, Garcia's first major label "solo" album in nine years. The JGB was a solo act in the sense that Garcia dominated it, but its musicians, organist Melvin Seals, bass player John Kahn, and drummer David Kemper, had been with him regularly for years, as had backup singers Gloria Jones and Jackie LaBranch. Within days of the concert commemorating the recently deceased Bill Graham at which he had played with the Dead, Garcia and the JGB embarked on a month-long tour of the East Coast and the Midwest in November.... the Virginia locale drew in a special guest, Bruce Hornsby on electric piano, who sat in for the entire show. Hornsby, of course, had been augmenting the Grateful Dead in this era, and he fit in equally well with the JGB... Hornsby's presence may be the reason this show was given a release, and that's fair, although there are other strong shows from this tour, which marked a peak period for the JGB."

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