I Should Have Stayed Dead

I Should Have Stayed DeadAllen Lowe · 2026

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7.0

Avg Score

1

Opinion

#31,203

All Time

55

Tracks

Tracklist

1Staying Dead 2Barry Harris Had a Hit Record and Didn’t Like It 3Theme for Wadada 4East Coast Ghost (Boy Decoded)5The Harder Blues 6Dexter Wakes Up 7Swing and Nothingness 8Where’s Lou Reed?9Grey Boys 10Do Not Go Gentle into That Operating Room 11End Chimes (for Brian Wilson)12Endgame 13Ives in Harlem 14Hallucinations (Up in Bud’s Room)15Little Jew from Connecticut 16Elvis Don’t You Weep 17Rainy Days of Life (for Jaki Byard)18Lennie’s Bennies 19Alienation Effect (or: The Effects of Alienation)20Code Boy 21I Should Have Stayed Dead 22The Second Assassin 23Last Rites (for Francis Davis)24Modal Stomp 25Hi Joe 26Holy Rollin’27The Hardest Blues 28I Licked Bird’s Blood 29We’re Lost 30The Gates of Hell Are Always Open 31I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Scream 32Blue and Bluer 33Counterintuitive 34Danse Savage 35Other Bodies, Other Souls 36Beneath the Blues 37Fanfare for Albert 38West Virginia Blues 39Woyzeck’s Death 40Maya Deren Dances the Voodoo Around 41Other Bodies Other Souls Part 2 42Walking on Water Wasn’t Built in a Day 43Echoes of Europe 44Mysterious Moon 45The Hawk Walks 46Lafcadio By the Sea 47Oi Death (Part 5)48We’re Found 49Relaxin’ in the O.R.50Spiritual-Lee 51Rhumba Lumumba 52Crude Thinking 53Tony Jackson 54Yancey’s Blues 55…And His Friends Called Him Ken

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Critic Reviews

“This three-disc cornucopia drawn from the saxophonist's recent and distant catalog is a wide-ranging soundtrack to his documentary of the same title.”