Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 1974

Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 1974
Live album by Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Band
Released	December 28, 2004
Recorded	September 1, 1974
Genre	Rock, jazz-rock
Length	220:17
Label	Jerry Made
Jerry Garcia chronology
Pure Jerry: Lunt-Fontanne, New York City, The Best of the Rest, October 15–30, 1987 (2004) Pure Jerry: Lunt-Fontanne, New York City, The Best of the Rest, October 15–30, 19872004 Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 1974 (2004) Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 19742004 Pure Jerry: Merriweather Post Pavilion, September 1 & 2, 1989 (2005) Pure Jerry: Merriweather Post Pavilion, September 1 & 2, 19892005
Merl Saunders chronology
Still Groovin' (2004) Still Groovin'2004 Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 1974 (2004) Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 19742004 Legion of Mary: The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 1 (2005) Legion of Mary: The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 12005
Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia chronology
Fire Up Plus (1992) Fire Up Plus1992 Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 1974 (2004) Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 19742004 Legion of Mary: The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 1 (2005) Legion of Mary: The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 12005

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Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 1974 is a three-CD live album by the Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders Band. It contains the complete concert performed at the Keystone in Berkeley, California on September 1, 1974. The fourth in the Pure Jerry series of archival concert albums, it was released on December 28, 2004.

Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley features Jerry Garcia on guitar and vocals, Merl Saunders on keyboards and vocals, Martin Fierro on saxophone and flute, John Kahn on bass, and Paul Humphrey on drums. At this show, a trumpet player whose identity is no longer known sat in on some of the songs.

Some earlier sources referred to this band as Legion of Mary. However, later research showed that the name Legion of Mary was only used from December 1974 to July 1975, after Ron Tutt replaced Paul Humphrey as the band's drummer. A recording by that band is Legion of Mary: The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 1. Released in August 2005, it contains selections from various concerts, recorded from December 1974 to July 1975, on two CDs. A second LOM album is Garcia Live Volume Three, released in October 2013 and recorded at two concerts in December 1974.

On Allmusic, Lindsay Planer wrote, "Within this context, Garcia's predilection and underrated jazz leanings are given plenty of room for some stretched-out exploratory excursions.... For the inclined, 2004's Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 1974 is a no-brainer, while the faithful might liken it unto aural manna for the masses. Curious parties won't leave disappointed, either."

In The Music Box, John Metzger wrote, "Granted, the set lists employed by any of the Garcia-Saunders projects didn't vary tremendously from one show to the next, and each was peppered with an organic blend of Bob Dylan-penned, Motown-germinated, jazz, blues, funk, reggae, and rock selections.... Not surprisingly, the end result of such improvisational mayhem could be a hit-and-miss affair, but for whatever reason, September 1, 1974 yielded a truly awesome, mind-blowing experience, one that rivaled the Grateful Dead's own astonishing sojourns.... In essence, the fourth chapter in the Pure Jerry series amounts to being a whirlwind tour de force that far and away surpasses not only the entirety of Jerry Garcia's solo canon, but also many of the Grateful Dead's own releases."

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