Medeski, Martin & Wood

08.07.2005

Live at Casino Barrière Montreux

 

In the States, whenever you see a poster featuring MMW, you rush out to buy your ticket. Since 1992, the organist John Medeski, drummer Billy Martin and bass player Chris Wood, all 3 from New York, have formed a fantastic group that has the savvy to combine feeling with brilliant technique, the result is infectious! What's more, they are ready to explore eveything in music that makes it magic: jazz, hip hop, funk, rock, groove, Cuban. These high priests of the aret even sometimes manage to incorporate their stylistic alchemy into the same piece. We've seen them make seamless transitions from Theolonious Monk's "Bemsha Swing" to Bob Marley's "Lively Up Yourself". This evening at the Casino, you're in for a wonderful time! (FFJM © 2005)

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Live Music at its best, Since 1967

Founded by Claude Nobs in 1967, over the years the Montreux Jazz Festival has become an unmissable event for music fans in Switzerland and around the world. Its stages have been graced by all of music’s greats, from Miles Davis to Ray Charles and from David Bowie to Prince.

Whereas Jazz constitutes the Festival’s historic core, other styles of music were quickly integrated into the Festival, bound together by a common thread of mutual curiosity and enthusiasm.

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