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Medeski, Martin and Wood
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jazz, funk, fusion, instrumental, experimental
Medeski Martin & Wood, or MMW, is a jazz trio originally formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards, Billy Martin on drums and percussion, and Chris Wood on double bass and bass guitar.
Medeski Martin & Wood was initially a straightforward acoustic jazz trio, but Medeski quickly added a Hammond organ when the difficulties of touring with a piano became apparent. This more soul jazz oriented direction led to the incorporation of other musical genres, including funk, hip hop, trip hop and free jazz. Medeski has also utilized a number of different keyboard instruments, such as a mellotron, a melodica, and a clavinet, among others.
With each successive album, Medeski Martin & Wood have become harder to pin down. Having long ago transcended their soulful organ-groove basics to enter a more expansive world of snappy beats and backbeats, eerie atmospheric effects, post-lounge riffing, and the occasional jazz overture, they occupy their own category.
They have also worked with a number of other artists, including John Scofield.
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More detail originally contributed by Topplayer to MSMW bio, moved here:
1991. Beginnings and Endings.
The Cold War was done, the Gulf War just begun and somewhere in the heart of Brooklyn, Medeski Martin and Wood were born in the sun. Playing music together for the first time that summer there was an instant connection - described by all three as being very natural, very organic and very strong. As complicated as their individual pasts might have been up to that point, their collective future together as a band had just become extremely simple - stick together and make music.
This is exactly what happened.
Medeski Martin & Wood was initially a straightforward acoustic jazz trio, but Medeski quickly added a Hammond organ when the difficulties of touring with a piano became apparent. This more soul jazz oriented direction led to the incorporation of other musical genres, including funk, hip hop, trip hop and free jazz. Medeski has also utilized a number of different keyboard instruments, such as a mellotron, a melodica, and a clavinet, among others.
With each successive album, Medeski Martin & Wood have become harder to pin down. Having long ago transcended their soulful organ-groove basics to enter a more expansive world of snappy beats and backbeats, eerie atmospheric effects, post-lounge riffing, and the occasional jazz overture, they occupy their own category.
They have also worked with a number of other artists, including John Scofield.
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More detail originally contributed by Topplayer to MSMW bio, moved here:
1991. Beginnings and Endings.
The Cold War was done, the Gulf War just begun and somewhere in the heart of Brooklyn, Medeski Martin and Wood were born in the sun. Playing music together for the first time that summer there was an instant connection - described by all three as being very natural, very organic and very strong. As complicated as their individual pasts might have been up to that point, their collective future together as a band had just become extremely simple - stick together and make music.
This is exactly what happened.
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davekg wrote:
Who decided that MMW should have a comma in the name?! Even the biography text leaves out the comma.
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doleysessions wrote:
Cat Creeps sounds just like the title... I like, I like.
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paulo_pow wrote:
Magnifik! xD
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eumaios wrote:
I have a squalb!
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iCarrramba wrote:
:( no free tracks
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nebuchadnezzar3 wrote:
@truetolife: SO strange, i was just listening to that song and thinking the SAME exact thing
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evarol wrote:
good show in Rochester
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truetolife wrote:
Partido Alto from the album "The Dropper" deserves much more love, it's a really great tune.
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farra1971 wrote:
Fantásticos, en todo lo que toquen.
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eumaios wrote:
Oh yeah!
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pst405 wrote:
uy buenisimo
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dbk_blix wrote:
this band is fuckin' awsome.. they are even getting better nowdays with that synths...
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Spielmeister wrote:
Gotta love Let's Go Everywhere
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ashyshka wrote:
fantasysage, but the engagement of children who scream and sing in there was excellent idea ! they show and highlight the true joy that comes from their music yet... its true this album is different from the others but it's totally insubordinate, free, untidy and that's why it's so easy listening... the best track for me is "where's the music"- just the essence :) ...and the powerful "pat a cake" ...I am enchanted. MMW THANK U:)
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Jim19 wrote:
cat creeps is a great song
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Fantasysage wrote:
Why MMW, WHY? Why take a great jam like where's the music, and put cuts of annoying children screaming in it? Rest of the album is okay. It sounds wonderfully polished, but almost dumbed down from what you usually do. Let's go Everywhere is a wonderful track, beautifully paced and for one of those rhyming songs, sounds better then most. Cmon guys, let raffi do what hes gotta do, and make the next album devoid of annoying kids voices and bedtime covers.
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BettyBlue372 wrote:
Love them!!!!
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estherteo wrote:
definitely like ease back..great recommendation lutenist
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Spir wrote:
New album is strange in the way that the sound is very different from the other album. The album was strange at first for that reason. But at least it's really nice. It's perhaps the one that is the more accessible. Anyway I like that new album very much. Btw MM&W said about it that it was their best one so far. I won't say that. But as an artist I can understand.
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bbubba wrote:
It's aimed at a children, but u can have such of fun listening to it even if ur old.
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Events
- Jul 17 Medeski, Martin and Wood Madison Theater, Covington, Cincinnati, United States
- Jul 18 Medeski, Martin and Wood The Kentucky Center, Bomhard Theater, Louisville, United States
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