Too Cool To Bluff

About the band

Too Cool To Bluff

Too Cool To Bluff is a New Jersey five-piece — Scott Warren on keys, Ian Schwartz and Rafael Orsini on guitars, Ben Machlin on bass, Ben Schwartz on drums, and all five singing — running at the Grateful Dead songbook with greatest hits, deep cuts, and the covers the Dead themselves reached for, plus Phish, The Band, the Beatles, and Blind Melon. Tight harmonies and polish over the improvisational spirit of the Dead. They work Monmouth County and the Shore, trading off the Thursday slot at Tre Pizza in Freehold with Gratefulmen through the fall.

The venue

Tre Pizza

611 Park Ave · Freehold, NJ

Brick-oven pizza and a draft list that changes weekly, out on Route 33, with a patio, bocce, and a fire pit behind it. Live music Thursday through Saturday at 8, and the Thursday slot leans on Dead and jam tributes — Gratefulmen and Too Cool To Bluff trade it off through the fall.