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...Orpheum Friday night before he and bandmates Billy Martin and John Medeski launched into a blazing version of Hendrix's "Crosstown Traffic." Belting out Jimi's funky lines on bass, drums, and organ, respectively, Medeski, Martin and Wood finished off a night that had been a whirlwind tour of jazz, funk, rock and pure abstract experimentalism...
Medeski, Martin and Wood's music is not simply a new, avant garde construction of jazz. In a jazz world saturated with top notch players and willing experimentalists, MMW have managed to put themselves on the map by making music that is really more a dialogue between opposite elements like traditional jazz structure and wild experimentation. Though some criticize the band for often approaching the limits of meaning in their abstract wanderings, it is the incredible, seamless continuity between disparate elements that gives their music its real significance. Their real skill lies not simply in their abilty in weaving dense...
...members hailing from California, Kentucky and the city itself. Since then they have recorded albums not only in the usual New York studios, but also in a solar powered shack in Hawaii while living in a tree house. Over the years they have frequently worked with other jazz innovators like John Scofield and Charlie Hunter, but have also been known to lay down sets with turntablist DJ Logic...
...MARIA SCHNEIDER, ALLEGRESSE: Schneider's big band paints musical landscapes full of glowing pastel harmonies and sharp-angled rhythms. Listen to her sweepingly ambitious compositions, and hear the next wave in jazz taking shape before your very ears...
...JAMES CARTER, CHASIN' THE GYPSY: This tribute to Django Reinhardt offers more than covers of the Gypsy guitarist's songs. Carter also serves up involving originals inspired by Reinhardt and, in doing so, establishes himself as one of the premier saxophonists in jazz. The chase is on, and Carter is closing...