Already, June is plenty underway and vanishing into the distance, along with a third of Dead & Company’s final tour. It bears reminding to take pause and bask in the glow of summer before we’re all standing outside its gates begging for an encore as the quiet of fall creeps in.

Of course, the final tour does not mean the end of the music, as the catalog of the Grateful Dead has manifested a life of its own. These tunes are the jazz standards of the jam scene.