Jazz is Dead have confirmed the band’s first 2024 live dates, termed the Right Outside This Lazy Summer Home Tour. The instrumental Grateful Dead cover ensemble will play a series of five venues in the Northeast this June, with more dates to be announced.

The first presentation of the Right Outside This Lazy Summer Home Tour will stage on June 6 at Boston’s The Wilbur. Next, on June 7, the band will play Sacred Heart University Community Theatre in Fairfield, Conn., followed by a June 8 show at the Garde Arts Center in New London, Conn. On June 9, the group will bring its signature jazzy treatment of Dead standards to New York’s storied Sony Hall, before heading out to the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, N.Y. on June 15 to close out the series as it stands.

More than just great admirers of the Grateful Dead’s canon, Jazz is Dead have many direct personal connections to the band. Guitarist Steve Kimock was a longtime friend of Jerry Garcia and toured with Phil Lesh & Friends in 1998-1999, before contributing to the supergroup the Rhythm Devils alongside Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart and Mike Gordon. Founding jazz fusion bassist Alphonso Johnson, who has collaborated with industry greats like Santana and Phil Collins, notably provided bass to Bob Weir’s side project Bobby and the Midnights and joined Kimock in Weir’s 1998 band The Other Ones. Since its formation in 1998, Jazz is Dead have reinterpreted the Dead’s discography with a rich insider knowledge of the band’s songwriting and philosophy.

Tickets for Jazz is Dead’s summer tour will go on sale on Friday, Feb. 16. Presale tickets are available at select venues; for more information, visit bandsintown.com. 

Jazz is Dead Spring Tour Dates
June 6 – The Wilbur – Boston
June 7 – Sacred Heart University Community Theatre – Fairfield, Conn.
June 8 – Garde Arts Center – New London, Conn. 
June 9 – Sony Hall, New York 
June 15 – Tarrytown Music Hall – Tarrytown, N.Y.