Like jazz? Like jam-band music? Like how both genres let the musicians onstage noodle away until their fingers get tired or audience members start nodding off?
Then Medeski, Martin & Wood are for you. Combining jazz’s instrumental acumen with jam-band’s the-drugs-are-kicking-in pace, the group is one of the finest on the scene.
Medeski, Martin & Wood are coming to the Kent Stage on November 17.
Tickets ($30 in advance, $35 day of show) go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday here and at Woodsy’s Music & Spin-More Records in Kent. —Michael Gallucci
This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2009.