Medeski, Martin & Wood: Combustication on CD
Combustication
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
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- Label:
- Blue Note
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1998
- UPC/EAN:
- 0724349301122
- Release date:
- 8.10.1998
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As the only jazz band to be accepted by the neo-hippies of the HORDE '90s, Medeski, Martin & Wood was embraced by rock and jazz audiences, who both loved their endless improvisations. They managed to walk the fine line dividing between the two camps, as their funkified soul-jazz was self-referential and cerebral, not earthy and instinctual. That's part of the reason why some soul-jazz diehards didn't embrace MMW - the ingredients may be there, but it just didn't taste like a real Jimmy Smith record. Perhaps conscious of this, MMW makes no excuses about their heritage on their fifth album, Combustication. Perhaps because it is their first effort for a real jazz label (Blue Note), Combustication happens to be their most adventurous effort yet. Ironically, it's because the group embraces alt-rock and hip-hop conventions like turntable scratching.
Reviews
W. Kampmann in Jazzthetik 12/98-1/99: "John Medeski, Billy Martin und Chris Wood, drei Musikanten aller- erster Klasse, errichten eine Tankstelle für den Jazz der Zukunft. An ihrer Kreativität, ihrem Druck, ihrer Leidenschaft und nicht zuletzt ihrer Kompromißlosig- keit kann auch der Wechsel ins Major-Lager nichts ändern."Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Sugar Craft
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2 Just Like I Pictured It
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3 Start-Stop
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4 Nocturne
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5 Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho
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6 Whatever Happened To Gus
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7 Latin Shuffle
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8 Everyday People
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9 Coconut Boogaloo
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10 Church Of Logic
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11 No Ke Ano Ahiahi
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12 Hypnotized
