Medeski Martin & Wood Performed First Ever in BergenPAC Englewood

Medeski Martin & Woods at BergenPac Engelewood NJ

Medeski, Matin Woods the 21 year old trio whose amalgam of jazz, funk, “avant-noise” and a million other musical currents and impulses is nearly impossible to classify, performed for the first time ever in Englewood Bergen Pac on Monday. Martin who now resides in Englewood grew up in Closter and attended school in Demarest.

Medeski Martin & Wood’s live performances are renowned for their exploratory nature. Their concerts usually involve extended improvisations, which may be both arrhythmic and atonal, an aspect of their musicianship that is rarely documented in the studio. They occasionally tour using only acoustic instruments, reverting back to the instrumentation that they began their career with. Their album Tonic is an example of these more contemporary acoustic performances. They have also done short tours of entirely improvisatory performances. These shows usually consisted of two sets of improvisation, followed by an encore of a song from an album.