Medeski Martin & Wood: Combustication – VINYL LP

Title: Combustication
Artist: Medeski Martin & Wood
Label: Blue Note Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 602537782161
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2014-06-24
Number of Discs: 2

On their Blue Note Records debut, MMW move away from the diffuse, free form jams that characterized their 1996 release, Shack-Man, but the organ trio’s trademark free-jazz-daring meets groove-happy-funk approach isn’t diminished by move. The return to the more tightly focused approach that characterized Friday Afternoon in the Universe, may be motivated by commercial concerns (how many more Phishheads can they possibly convert?) but it’s also a musical triumph; Combustication is the trio’s finest of their six recordings. DJ Logic’s warbling scratches enliven “Start-Stop” and “Church of Logic.” Poet Steve Cannon recites some appropriately fried verses on “What Ever Happened to Gus,” and the band takes Sly Stone’s “Everyday People” away from Madison Avenue and into the Southern Baptist church.

Tracks:
1.1 Sugar Craft
1.2 Just Like I Pictured It
1.3 Start-Stop
1.4 Nocturne
1.5 Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho
1.6 Whatever Happened to Gus
1.7 Latin Shuffle
1.8 Everyday People
1.9 Coconut Boogaloo
1.10 Church of Logic
1.11 No Ke Ano Ahiahi
1.12 Hypnotized