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Medeski Martin & Wood

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Wide open: That’s the phrase John Medeski uses to describe his bandmates’ musical sensibilities, the attitude he seeks in himself, and the spirit of musical adventure that Medeski Martin & Wood have pursued for two decades.

The trio’s amalgam of jazz, funk, “avant-noise” and a million other musical currents and impulses is nearly impossible to classify, which is just how they like it. Medeski’s keyboard excursions, Chris Wood’s hard-charging bass lines and Billy Martin’s supple, danceable beats have come to resemble a single organism, moving gracefully between genre-defying compositions and expansive improvisation atop a relentless groove.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Scary Goldings and The Adam Deitch Quartet: Funky But Chic

Read "Scary Goldings and The Adam Deitch Quartet: Funky But Chic" reviewed by Doug Collette


Having learned to find and make a place for himself in the bands of George Duke and Miles Davis, John Scofield has gone on to perform similar magic with artists as disparate as Medeski Martin & Wood and Phil Lesh & Friends. His latest affiliations once again find the guitarist/composer displaying his uncanny ability to sublimate ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Jazz Releases Plus Gregory Goodloe Interview

Read "New Jazz Releases Plus Gregory Goodloe Interview" reviewed by Steven Roby


Gregory Goodloe, who derives his influences from George Benson and Wes Montgomery, divides his time between the recording studio and the radio studio, where he presents his own show, Mile High Smooth Jazz, on World Wide Jazz Radio. Playlist Artemis “Lights Away From Home" from In Real Time (Blue Note Records) James Brandon Lewis ...

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Article: Play This!

Medeski Martin & Wood: Smoke

Read "Medeski Martin & Wood: Smoke" reviewed by Michael Ricci


Ever get stuck at a red light with some youngster blaring infernal racket from his car in the other lane? You can't wait for the light to turn green... but it gives you an idea... and you're thinking... which song can I crank up that turns heads in, say, the Costco parking lot? Here's one. With ...

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Article: Book Review

ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sounds, Art and Ink on Paper

Read "ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sounds, Art and Ink on Paper" reviewed by Doug Collette


ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sounds, Art and Ink on Paper 280 Pages ISBN: # 979-8-21809624-3 Higher Ground 2023 In honor of Higher Ground's 25th anniversary, the South Burlington Vermont music venue has collaborated in the curation of ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sounds, Art and ...

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Article: Album Review

Emma-Jean Thackray: Yellow

Read "Yellow" reviewed by Jim Trageser


Many of the most prominent exponents of melding jazz with soul, funk and hip-hop have been trumpeters. Even in the late 1970s, Chuck Mangione was already taking soul-jazz and moving it further into an R&B orbit (and taking heat from jazz purists for supposedly “selling out"), and in so doing exposing lots of pop fans to ...

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Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Doug Collette

Read "Meet Doug Collette" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Doug Collette's pedigree for crafting honest and carefully-considered music analysis lies in a nearly fifty year devotion to contemporary rock and roll, jazz and the blues. During this time, his zeal for writing has grown to (almost) equal his devotion to the musical experiences he has documented from his astute observations of records, videos, books and ...

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Omnisphere

Label: Indirecto Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Kid Tao Mammal (unworldliness weirdo); Anonymous Skulls; Coral Sea; oh ye of little faith (do you know where your children are?); Northern Lights; Eye of Ra; End of the World Party (Just in Case).

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Cale Brandley & Triptych Myth and Philip Zoubek

Read "Cale Brandley & Triptych Myth and Philip Zoubek" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Master drummer Andrew Cyrille turned 79 in November. His wonderful new recording Lebroba, following on the heels of his acclaimed The Declaration of Musical Independence proves age has little to do with creativity. You'll hear two tracks from the new release which features Bill Frisell and Wadada Leo Smith, another septuagenarian at peak powers.

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Article: Album Review

John Scofield: Combo 66

Read "Combo 66" reviewed by Doug Collette


The dignified portraits of John Scofield on the front and back covers of Combo 66 are at once in keeping with the reference to his age in the album's name and at odds with the youthful vigor he and his bandmates exhibit in playing the music inside this subtly eye-catching package of all new material.


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