{"id":3376,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/medeski-martin-wood-the-dropper\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"medeski-martin-wood-the-dropper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3376","title":{"rendered":"Medeski, Martin &#038; Wood &#8211; The Dropper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/TheDropper.jpg\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Medeski, Martin &amp; Wood\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"\/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"4\">  Medeski, Martin &amp; Wood<\/font><br \/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"2\">  The Dropper<\/font><br \/><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">  (Blue Note &#8211; 2000)<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" height=\"8\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/.gif\" width=\"4\" align=\"middle\"\/> by Sidney Bechet-Mandela<\/font><\/p>\n<p>  <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" color=\"black\">    In the last ten years,  no jazz act has done more to bring back fusion, the  Hammond B-3 and young kids to jazz than this popular trio.  But if you think  a large following of 20-something kids and sales figures approaching that  magic six figure range is going to make MMW compromise their music, the  spacey avant-garde first track off their new joint, &#8220;We Are Rolling,&#8221; will  quickly have you re-thinking that.  If you&#8217;re trying to understand their  popularity skip to track two and four &#8220;Big Time,&#8221; and &#8220;Partido Alto,  funk  laden avant-garde dance pieces that damn near conjures up a writhing  head-banging Generation X-ers doing that generic dance they do. <\/p>\n<p>  That&#8217;s what  truly amazing about this group, is their timing.  They came along at the end  of the acid jazz frenzy in America and just before the inexplicable  resurrection of avant-garde music on college campuses all across America,  and MMW has been the main beneficiary.  Fortunately, these guys have  artistic scruples  and won&#8217;t give in to the dough.  They keep exploring  dance rhythms and far off harmonies and shaking them up to see what they  come up with.  The important thing is that they&#8217;ve got folks dancing and  walking into the record stores asking for jazz.  <\/font><\/p>\n<p>          <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medeski, Martin &amp; Wood The Dropper (Blue Note &#8211; 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}