With a mellow, exploratory sound, our Dead of the Day comes from well into the nineties: February 23, 1993. The first set is all quite good involving some staid, yet solid playing. But the Johnny B. Goode rages forward beginning to mark this night as something special; though Jerry’s voice cannot quite keep up with the rollicking pace on that Chuck Berry tune, his guitar just dominates it. The second set gets off to a playful start with a drums jam backing a Mardi Gras parade; the drums are a great background and a lot fun, but the way the music suddenly rises out of a pedantic beat into a chill Iko is truly magical, embodying the period of waiting, sacrifice, and rebirth of the Lenten season that Mardi Gras anticipates. After the promise of the opening, the Corrina and Lazy River Road are both a bit of a buzz kill, especially because each were repeats from the night before. But the Playin’ turns things around again by entering into a sweet, reflective jam, reaching and searching for something that cannot be known or found; the inaccessibility of it all is its magic. A similar hunt emerges out of Space as the band engages in an orgy of experimentation and grasping, coaxed onwards by Ornette Coleman, who sits in on sax. The band finally arrives at a welcome Other One and then rolls into an intricately layered Stella Blue.