You can measure the evolution of Medeski Martin & Wood in miles. The trio gained an avid following in the early 1990s with a bracing mix of experimental jazz and simmering funk and hip-hop grooves, a ...

In concert, it’s a given that Medeski, Martin & Wood is going to improvise. The keyboard trio lives at the three-way intersection of the jazz, groove and jam worlds – all of which favor the ...

BRECKENRIDGE – Medeski, Martin and Wood not only blend musical genres – they blend people.The eclectic musicians have won the affection of jazzbos, hippie jammers, ravers and post-rockers with their ...

It’s a testament to the strange alchemy that comes out of Medeski Martin and Wood’s performances that an indefinable, improvisation-driven keyboard trio can draw a large, thoroughly rapt crowd to UCLA ...

Medeski Martin and Wood is that band that combines all the elements.’ Every influence can be heard throughout any show, poked at and expanded until it becomes a swirling tour-de-force that is bursting ...

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Catskill dwellers Medeski, Martin & Wood brought their unique jamband jazz to an enthralled crowd on Thursday night. Bridging those sometimes opposing worlds in a clever, new way, ...

Director Jason Miller and producers Tyler Davidson, Jim Stark and Elie Weiss do not succumb to over-ambition with Not Not Jazz, their documentary devoted to Medeski Martin & Wood. The temptation would ...

From the jazz improvisers' collaborative album with the contemporary orchestra, Omnisphere. The record actually dates back to sessions from February 2015, when the musicians holed up in Colorado.

For the past 20 years, the trio of keyboard/organ/piano player John Medeski, drummer/percussionist Billy Martin, and bassist Chris Wood have attracted all walks of musical life – from hip-hop lovers ...

After 17 years, nine studio albums and countless tours, Medeski, Martin and Wood are, in a sense, a band without a country. And they couldn’t be happier. Dedicated to what keyboardist John Medeski ...

BRECKENRIDGE – They didn’t come, so the BMF canceled it.Wednesday afternoon Jeff Baum, executive director of the Breckenridge Music Festival (BMF), canceled the Medeski, Martin and Wood show scheduled ...

In recent years, jazz has struggled to expand its audience, in part because jazz introduced to children rarely bears a resemblance to music heard on the radio. Of course, it doesn't help that music ...