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Summary: red dog
Comment: I love MMW, and with a good guitarist that obviously "gets" them, it not only makes great jazz, but fantastic jamming music. Then again, I am a big fan.
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Summary: Dropping acid with Grandpa
Comment: I don't really understand MMW's fascination with Scofield. I'm guessing that it has to be their roots of influence in traditional jazz. I wish that they could have chosen Grant Green, but the results would've probably been the same honestly. A trio is something special I think, a heart, lung, and brains, go. Add some other organ to that and I think/feel that you waste something, sort of wait around. That's it, the spontaneity is lessened. Not gone, but definitely slowed down some.
I unfortunately need to take back everything that I have just said upon hearing "Julia". That is beautiful.
I love these guys, and always will, so I guess that if they want to play quartet from time to time, I'll just buy it.
But, I'd rather the Trio.
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Summary: Combination Team Effort
Comment: This is funkdafied music. Being a big jazz fan I took a chance and this album had me occupied for awhile where nothing could distract me. It is just plain interesting and unique. Favorite tracks include: Track 1 (what a bluesy feel), Track 3 and Track 5 (builds nicely). Recommend for anyone into the late Miles Davis stuff or just wanting to explore some new beats.
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Summary: Good with potential evident
Comment: This is a good and solid effort and will be money well spent but a bit restrained in performance and that is disppointing as I've seen Scofield live several times in Montreux (a spectacular show with Lovano in the Stravinsky with Bireli Lagrene following, and then in the early 90s with Pat Metheny "See Your House..." music where he let loose) and also have seen on separate occasion MMW in Montreux where they really did let loose and the results were spectaularly entertaing, though MMW with Scofield were to play Montreux this summer (2007) and must have been the realization of the material and music on the record, and the place to be.............
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Summary: Out Louder
Comment: Like a poisoned drug addict possessed by the devil, Out Louder commands your attention right from the first track's ultra-funky intro drum groove. The first collaboration from the quintet since guitarist John Scofield's 1998 guitar-funk release A Go Go, this album throws away the conventional jazz/funk conceptions to create a sonic landscape unlike anything most of us have ever heard before. Never before has the term "fusion jazz" been so appropriately used to describe the intense mixture of genres and sounds found on this record. Like a musical blender stuck on purée, we move from the hypnagogic acid trip of "Telegraph" through the Addams-family-plays-Latin-jazz feel of "Tequila and Chocolate" to the pure soulful sweetness of "Julia" and the (funkier and sexier) Mr. Bungle-esque stream of consciousness jam "Down the Tube." The tracks on this album are absolutely mind-blowing in terms of pure improvisatory virtuosity and creative vision; Scofield's guitar work is nothing short of inspiring as he weaves through the funky, controlled chaotic background laid down by Medeski, Martin, and Wood. Spellbinding, though definitely not for everyone.
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