Word: medeski
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Last concert attended: I totally don’t go to enough. I saw Guster and Medeski, Martin and Wood over the summer. I forget where, though. Oh, and I also saw The Stars Essex Green at TT’s and the Bear’s semi-recently. That must have been during the school year sometime...
...want to wish Jimi a happy birthday," Chris Wood told the audience at the 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...
...MEDESKI, MARTIN AND WOOD...
...band went through various permutations as it grew, and the list of the Either/Orchestra's members reads like a roll call of Boston's greatest instrumental products. Among the notable past members of the group are John Medeski, a keyboard player, now front man of jam-crowd favorites Medeski Martin & Wood; Josh Roseman, a trombonist who has recorded with The Roots and Groove Collective; Mike Rivard, a bassist, now leader of Club D'Elf; Curtis Hasselbring, Matt Wilson and Andrew D'Angelo, who are all staples of New York jazz...