John Medeski

...FOR EASY PRINTING Seventeen years after it began tricking neo-Deadheads into listening to jazz, the trio of keyboardist John Medeski, drummer Billy Martin, and bassist Chris Wood is the certifiable leader of an entire movement. Jam-jazz...

In this article: Medeski Martin & Wood, House of Blues, Chris Wood, Soulive, Garage A Trois, DVD, Zaebos, Boston Globe, and Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

...feature the reunion of The Word--a blues/jam-rock supergroup featuring the North Mississippi Allstars, Robert Randolph and John Medeski. Hill Country Review, the side project of North Mississippi Allstars drummer Cody Dickinson, will open...

In this article: North Mississippi Allstars, Hernando, The Word, DVD, Robert Randolph, Black Flag, ZZ Top, and Luther Dickinson

...first live recording, Meets Medeski, waxed at Switzerland's Willisau Jazz Festival. Less of a meeting than a reunion groove god John Medeski is an old cohort of the band and can be found on the group's first release, 1998's Din of Inequity...

In this article: Steven Bernstein, Sex Mob, Spanish Fly, John Barry, Black and Tan Fantasy, Kenny Wollesen, You Only Live Twice, and Duke Ellington

...R'n'B, plays with a swashbuckling swagger that would have made PT Barnum proud. And in B3 organist John Medeski (of the jazz-rock/jamband trio Medeski Martin and Wood) he's found a keyboardist with a circus sensibility willing to explore the...

In this article: Joey Baron, Bill Evans, John Zorn, Enrico Pieranunzi, Greg Cohen, Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas, and Adam Rogers

...Blue Note will be anything but sedate. Then again, how could it be sedate with a lineup of McBride, sax master James Carter, keyboardist John Medeski, guitarist Adam Rogers, and drummer Joey Baron? Like Terrell Owens playing for the Dallas...

In this article: Christian McBride, Aretha Franklin, Anthony Wilson, Adam Rogers, Street of Dreams, and Joey Baron

Who needs a bassist when you've got a quarter-century foundation? Highlighting organist/pianist John Medeski's collab-studded week at the Stone including a reunion with one-time mentor, drummer Ra-Kalam Bob Moses is a legit downtown...

In this article: Billy Martin and Medeski, Martin, and Wood

...Russell and Steve Lacy. And he drew a student body that eventually counted among its ranks such future jazz stars as Danilo Perez, John Medeski, Regina Carter and Luciana Souza. "I think that NEC is the best school in the country for...

In this article: NEC, Fred Hersch, New England Conservatory, Gunther Schuller, Danilo Perez, Jordan Hall, George Russell, Luciana Souza, and Bob Brookmeyer

...expression or daring exploration, and that the surface pleasure of pop music will quickly dominate the music. But that's where John Medeski (keyboards), Chris Wood (bass, acoustic and electric), and Billy Martin (drums/percussion)...

In this article: Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Chris Wood, Hash, Itch, Parliament/Funkadelic, Billy Martin, Phish, and Grateful Dead

In this article: Cindy Blackman, Tony Williams, Lenny Kravitz, Alan Dawson, Los Angeles, Jack Bruce, Patrice Rushen, Miles Davis, and Vernon Reid

Critic's picks: James Carter, John Medeski, Christian McBride, Adam Rogers and Joey Baron, 'Heaven on Earth'; Medeski Martin & Wood, 'Radiolarians III' By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Writer On Heaven and Earth, a tasty concert...

In this article: James Carter, Adam Rogers, Joey Baron, Christian McBride, Medeski Martin & Wood, Chris Wood, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, and Django Reinhardt