Medeski, Martin & Wood - Friday Afternoon in the Universe (1995)

01 - The Lover 
02 - Paper Bass 
03 - House Mop 
04 - Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps) 
05 - Baby Clams 
06 - We're So Happy 
07 - Shack 
08 - Tea 
09 - Chinoiserie 
10 - Between Two Limbs 
11 - Sequel 
12 - Friday Afternoon in the Universe 
13 - Billy's Tool Box 
14 - Chubb Sub 
15 - Khob Khun Krub


    John Medeski – organ, piano, wurlitzer, clavinet
    Billy Martin – drums, percussion
    Chris Wood – acoustic bass, harmonica, wood flute
    Danny Blume – guitar
    Tonino Benson – raygun, vocals
    Carl Green – Thai flute

Here, the MMW direction and loyalties become very clear; they're possessed and driven by the fatback funk and instruments of an earlier generation. John Medeski becomes one of the wave of keyboardists in the '90s who started dragging wonderful old Wurlitzer electric pianos, Hohner clavinets, Hammond organs, wah-wah pedals, and other devices out of the mothballs, and used them almost as quasi-percussion instruments at times. Chris Wood remains resolutely on standup bass, playing with a great feeling for Billy Martin's supremely funky drumming. Some of the results harken back to Miles Davis' jungle bands of the mid-'70s, picking up on the atonality and crosstalk over the JB's/Sly Stone beat ("We're So Happy"). Others are just happy to groove along on the rhythms of some of the most irresistible group chemistry of the 1990s. ---Richard S. Ginell, Rovi

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