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Billy Martin / John Medeski: Mago

Read "Mago" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
November 11, 2007

In their nearly twenty year history, drummer Billy Martin and organist John Medeski have developed an acute affinity built on a shared rhythmic feel and devotion to improvisation. On Mago, they return to the duo format, the seed that blossomed into the successful trio Medeski, Martin & Wood (MMW). The eleven tracks crackle with vitality, as ...

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Billy Martin / John Medeski: Mago

by Doug Collette
May 14, 2007

One of the primary virtues of the Medeski, Martin and Wood partnership is the fluid means by which they conduct side projects as smoothly as they interact when they play together. Billy Martin's live percussion workshops may be less farther afield than keyboardist John Medeski's production of sacred steel band The Campbell Brothers, but they are ...

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Billy Martin / John Medeski: Mago

by Troy Collins
May 8, 2007

In 1989 organist John Medeski joined percussionist Billy Martin in his Brooklyn loft for a jam session that became the genesis for the groove institution known as MMW. Together with bassist Chris Wood, Medeski, Martin & Wood has become one of the most successful cross-over stories in all of modern jazz. Medeski and Martin ...