John Medeski

Jazz, jamband and hip-hop come together Saturday night at Llama, on the southwest corner of main street and Pine, when Jason Kibler comes to town. Read More

When a member of a music group decides to leave and the remaining band continues, it can be risky and the results can be unpredictable. Read More

When a member of a music group decides to leave and the remaining band continues, it can be risky and the results can be unpredictable. Read More

Medeski, Martin & Wood, a jazz-fusion trio from Brooklyn, brought some hot funk jams to the Port City Music Hall on the first snowy evening of the year, last Saturday, Dec. 5. Read More

The music community is a large organism that will not hesitate to eat fresh bands alive. Read More

For a single group to not only dabble in but excel at all these varieties of music proves that genre-crossing bands, or even genre-creating ones, are as much a force in music as ever before. Read More

Tenor saxophonist and composer Larry Ochs is a founding member of Bay Area saxophone quartet ROVA (he's the "O"), virtually an institution in the frequently overlapping international scenes of avant-garde jazz, improvised music, and contemporary notated composition (the latter being what some folks these days refer to as "classical" music). Read More

You know I've been listening to MMW for only about a year now, and from the moment they hit my ears, I've been craving the opportunity to hear all this jazz-rock wildness live. Read More

Before I dive into my impressions on Tuesday's killer Medeski, Martin & Wood show, I thought it might be appropriate to talk about the spirit embodied by the band. Read More