Martin Medeski & Wood - Friday Afternoon In The Universe

Martin Medeski & Wood - Friday Afternoon In The UniverseFor the last 30 years, Medeski Martin & Wood have explored the boundaries of modern jazz, incorporating hip hop, avant garde, world music, and electronic funk influences into their fearless improvisational style. It's title taken from the first line of "Old Angel Midnight" by Jack Kerouac (himself a legendary improviser), 1995's Friday Afternoon in the Universe flings a whole lot at the wall and just about everything sticks, with mid '70s Miles Davis

letting chords delay all the way to silence

Space and Time

with an additional disc of bonus material - including 2 original unreleased recordings from the era: ‘If You Say the Word’ + ‘Follow Me Around’“A new

Solitude Is Bliss

) With contributions from longtime touring drummer Wesley Mitchell and bassist Zach Dawes (Sharon Van Etten and Lana Del Rey)

Septentrion

wiser and better

and Lee Ranaldo & the Dust

With songs about eternal questions of commitment and love and the terrifying possibility of being vulnerable and known

Have Mercy

Polymetronomic Harmony (Instrumental) 9

This collection includes the chart topping new single