Jazz Articles

Medeski, Martin & Wood: Let's Go Everywhere

by Jay Deshpande
February 27, 2008

Throughout their decade-and-a-half-long career together, Medeski, Martin & Wood have managed to straddle many difficult boundaries. They have all the trappings of a jam-band, but maintain an avant-garde appeal. They keep a large cadre of fans around the globe, even as their inventiveness and pursuit of new sounds make them seem like they should be difficult to latch onto.

With the new children's album Let's Go Everywhere, MMW is again bridging a gap, and a particularly thorny one in jazz ...

Medeski, Martin & Wood: Let's Go Everywhere

by Ryan Lippell
February 14, 2008

Medeski, Martin & Wood Let's Go Everywhere Little Monster Records 2008

Roll over Raffi and boogie on out Barney... Medeski, Martin & Wood are now cutting kids' records. Though best known for a brand of jazz that attracts 20-somethings, the Brooklyn-based trio shows with Let's Go Everywhere that jazz hybridized with elements of avant-garde, funk, trance, rock and hip-hop is also suited to seven-year-olds.

Appropriately co-conceived while bassist Chris Wood and Little ...