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John Medeski: A Different Time
by Doug Collette
John Medeski's A Different Time certainly lives up to its title. It is both everything and nothing like what might be expected from a musician whose stock in trade is a concerted effort to avoid the predictable, as a charter member of Medeski Martin & Wood, in the course of his many live solo efforts and in group settings with guitarists Will Bernard and David Fuczynski or last year's tribute to Tony Williams, Spectrum Road.As such this solo ...
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by Dan Bilawsky
Organ ace John Medeski dons the mask of a left-leaning jazzer teetering on the brink of the jam band precipice when he appears with his co-lead super trio, Medeski, Martin & Wood (MMW), or in any number of other contexts, but that's his public face; his private pianistic side is on display on the aptly title A Different Time. Medeski returns to his alone-at-the-piano roots here, looking back to a time when intimate, measured self-expression reigned supreme ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Dimenticatevi il frullatore stilistico, la miscela di ritmi e di generi che conciliò, in barba ai puristi, improvvisazione, jazz, avanguardia, downtown music, funky groove, drum'n'bass, underground e quant'altro, di nome Medeski, Martin & Wood. Non pensate ad una esibizione dimostrativa, sfavillante di note, ricca di scale e sontuosa nella ricerca armonica, e nemmeno ad una rivendicazione di dignità pianistica nascosta tra cavi elettrici e platee acclamanti. Niente affatto, perché A Different Time, debutto in piano solo di John Medeski è ...
Continue ReadingMedeski, Martin & Wood: Free Magic
by AAJ Italy Staff
Terminati i festeggiamenti per i 20 anni di attività celebrati lo scorso anno con la pubblicazione di 20 nuovi brani disponibili solo su piattaforma digitale, Medeski Martin & Wood ritornano a pubblicare la loro musica sul più tradizionale supporto del CD, dopo In Case the World Changes Its Mind , che documentava il tour del 2006 in compagnia di John Scofield. Anche questo Free Magic è un live, tratto dal tour completamente acustico realizzato nel 2007. La dimensione unplugged del ...
Continue ReadingMedeski Scofield Martin & Wood: In Case the World Changes Its Mind Live
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ascoltando queste registrazioni dal vivo, tratte dal tour del 2006 ma pubblicate solo adesso, viene da chiedersi come Medeski, Martin & Wood possano funzionare anche autonomamente senza la chitarra di John Scofield. L'amalgama è talmente perfetto che non si capisce come questo bel progetto possa essere solo una variante della loro attività principiale, che è quella del trio. Anche se va ricordato come il trio MMW sia spessissimo aperto a collaborazioni (da Marc Ribot a David Tronzo, da Pat Patrick ...
Continue ReadingMedeski Scofield Martin & Wood: In Case The World Changes Its Mind
by Doug Collette
In Case the World Changes Its Mind reaffirms the chemistry at the heart of the collaboration between nouveau-jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood and guitarist extraordinaire, John Scofield. Hearing this live recording reveals the delicate, almost precarious, balance of factors that put them finely in tune with each other. Recorded on the 2006 tour to promote the foursome's studio outing Out Louder (Indirecto, 2006), the concert piece demonstrates how the four-man unit functions with judicious serendipity when playing ...
Continue ReadingJohn Medeski & Lee Shaw: Together Again: Live At The Egg
by Bruce Lindsay
John Medeski is one of the jazz world's best-known and most accomplished keyboard players--but he had to begin learning jazz somewhere. That somewhere was with pianist, composer and teacher Lee Shaw, in late '70s Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Over 30 years later, as the title of their album makes plain, Medeski and Shaw are Together Again: Live At The Egg on a joyously musical date from the Albany, New York venue recorded on April 5, 2009. It's a date made possible ...
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