In any case, a collaboration with Medeski, Martin and Wood necessarily
HAS to be loose and funky, as these guys are very serious about getting
their groove on. They're a organ (B3, Hammond, Wurlitzer, Clavinet, etc..),
bass, and drum/percussion trio who are very well known among the jazz-funk
circles, and definitely worth checking out, especially if you're into the
whole 70's Herbie Hancock/Headhunters organ sound. I've noticed that all
three of them, especially the organ player (Medeski) have been getting a
whole lot of session work lately , appearing on every concievable new jazz
recording, so I think the word's beginning to spread about these guys. If
you're curious, I highly recommend getting their last recording,
"Shack-Man". It's serious organ jazz-funk, put out by Rykodisc in 1996.
Anyone who might wanna know a little more can feel free to email me; I'll
dig up my records and see what else I can tell you about them.
Hey, this was a John Scofield thread wasn't it? Oh well........
Stimpson
-----Original Message-----
From: Elson Trinidad <elson@westworld.com>
To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 10:13 PM
Subject: New John Scofield (yes, THAT John Scofield...)
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>Surprised no one's mentioned it here (which is why I hadn't found out until
>recently).
>Turns out fusion guitarist extraordinaire John Scofield has been bitten by
>the groove bug and released an acid-jazz album, with a little help from
>these three musicians...I think they go by the name of Medeski, Martin and
>Wood or something. :)
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>Anyway, the drummer from my band has been raving about this thing. I think
>it's cool, though not as thrilling as, say, Charlie Hunter, but Scofield
>and MMW seem to complement each other nicely; Scofield's guitar work gives
>MMW a dimension that was previously missing in previous MMW efforts, and
>the raw grooves of MMW save Scofield from corny status (a typical condition
>when contemporary fusion artists want that acid jazz sound).
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>At least this will give me and my Scofield-worshipping guitarist friends
>something to agree about.
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>Any thoughts?
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>Elson
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>:. elson trinidad * los angeles, ca, usa
>:. elson@westworld.com * www.westworld.com/~elson
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