Connecting with a Groove!

"People connect with grooves and funk, they feel it in their gut, we understand complex harmonies, but in the end we know that you don’t have to play all those notes to connect with people. The groove and spirit is what connects with people." ~ John Medeski




Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood

~ Chank ~

Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood
West Stage
Sunday ~ 3:45-5pm

These four musician’s yen for jazz, funk, rock, soul and reggae, go a long way towards explaining why their deep grooves and sophisticated harmonies beg for closer inspection while simultaneously making you want to get up and dance. It’s a match made not above nor below, but rather in some altogether hipper place: John Medeski + Billy Martin + Chris Wood + guitar guru John Scofield. On their new release OUT LOUDER, they make music not of this world, yet rooted in the earth tones of jazz, funk, and blues. Music from the heart, for the mind, and made to shake the earth, not to mention the body.

Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood first recorded together on Scofield’s A Go Go (Verve 1998), a disc that has become a must-have classic. That project united jazz guitarist Scofield with the improvisational jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood on material composed by Scofield and interpreted by all four musicians.

Be sure to catch their set as they close the West Stage on Sunday evening!