[NEohioPAL] MMW Live @ The Kent Stage

[The Kent Stage]

Northeast Ohio's Best Acoustic Venue 
			  
			  
          
          
            
			    
                
                
			
              

            
			    
				The Kent Stage 
is proud to announce
An Evening with 
Medeski, Martin & Wood!
Tuesday November 17 @ 8PM
Tickets go on sale Friday Aug. 28 @ 11 AM 
@ www.kentstage.org, Woodsy's Music & Spin-More Records!

A group that effortlessly straddles the gap between avant-garde
improvisation and accessible groove-based jazz, Medeski, Martin, &
Wood have simultaneously earned standings as relentlessly innovative
musicians and an enormously popular act. Emerging out of the New York
downtown scene in the early '90s, the group soon set out on endless
cross-country tours, before returning home to Manhattan to further
refine their sound through myriad influential experimentations. Each
of the musicians -- keyboardist John Medeski, drummer/percussionist
Billy Martin, and bassist Chris Wood -- crossed paths throughout the
'80s, playing with the likes of John Lurie, John Zorn, and Martin
mentor Bob Moses. In 1991, the trio officially convened for an
engagement at New York's Village Gate. Soon, the group was rehearsing
in Martin's loft, writing, and soon recording 1992's self-released
Notes From the Underground. As the group began to tour, escaping the
supportive, though insular, New York music community, Medeski -- a
former child prodigy -- switched to a Hammond B-3 organ, an instrument
far easier to travel with than a grand piano. Grammavision
released It's a Jungle in Here in 1993, which featured horn
arrangements by future Sex Mob founder (and pan-scenester) Steven
Bernstein. The medley of Thelonius Monk's "Bemsha Swing" and Bob
Marley's "Lively Up Yourself" spoke volumes about what the band was
attempting to accomplish. Friday Afternoon in the Universe, widely
considered the band's breakthrough record, further continued the push
toward groove-oriented accessibility, a movement which peaked with the
group's 1996 Rykodisc debut, Shack-man (recorded entirely in the band's
practice shack in the Maui jungle). By 1996, through a combination of
endless touring and two widely circulated live collaborations with
Phish, the group caught in the burgeoning jam band scene, where they
continue to draw the bulk of their audience outside of New York.Late
in 1996, the group began a public return their avant-garde roots,
hosting a series of weekly "Shack Parties" at New York's Knitting
Factory, which featured collaborations with many musicians, including
Vernon Reid and DJ Logic, who would soon become the group's unofficial
fourth member. The trio issued the extremely free (and utterly
beautiful) Farmer's Reserve on their own Indirecto imprint in 1997, a
series of improvisations recorded at the Shack. Logic soon joined the
band on the road, and they prepared to record Combustication, their
first effort for Blue Note, as well as their first full-length
collaboration with producer Scott Harding. In 2000, the band
made their coming-out as leaders with two releases -- the live acoustic
Tonic (recorded at the New York City club of the same name), as well as
the electric The Dropper (recorded at the band's newly christened
Shacklyn Studios in the trendy DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn) -- as
well as an acclaimed Halloween performance at Manhattan's Beacon
Theater. The Dropper featured Harding's gritty production, as well as
appearances by Sun Ra alum Marshall Allen. In 2006, the group released
Out Louder, an album that saw them collaborate with John Scofield.
Their music was also featured on Grey's Anatomy.The band's
reputation has achieved massive proportions. As they always have, the
three core bandmembers contributed to numerous other recording
projects, both as sidemen and leaders. Increasingly, their word was
gold and their efforts carved paths for musicians to follow.. Following
their rise, for example, was a renaissance in B-3-based organ trios.
Many groups had played with DJs before them, but their performances
with Logic made it downright fashionable. Though they were -- and are
-- considered "alternative" jazz, they were drawing larger audiences
than many of their mainstream counterparts. ~ Jesse Jarnow, All Music
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Location & Ticket Info
The Kent Stage is located at 175 East Main Street in downtown Kent, Ohio.  There is FREE parking behind the theater and on all city streets.  Advance tickets are available at Woodsy's Music and Spin-More Records in Kent, or 24-hours a day at www.kentstage.org or call 1-800-595-4849.  Tickets will also be available at the door.  Doors open one hour before concert.  If you have any questions please email us at wrfaa at yahoo.com or information at kentstage.org or call 330-677-5005.  
 
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