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Uninvisible is further than ever from conventional jazz organ. While blues and funk influences are evident throughout the album, they float on a sea of shadows. Sound sources are obscure or exotic; on "Pappy Check" innovative scratching by turntablist DJ Olive creates an impression of African percussion more than club atmospherics. Even where the instrumentation is less ambiguous, the trio steers toward a filmic noir sensibility, with Medeski leading the way in unorthodox techniques. His pitch-bend solo on "Take Me Nowhere" suggests the creak of a rusty hinge, with Wood's acoustic bass providing the anchor for his abstractions. Wood is in fact often mixed higher than Medeski, to the effect of reducing the keyboard parts to a sideline role and the album in turn to an exercise in mood more than virtuosity -- an impression enhanced by a similarly eccentric shrinkage of the power guitar part on "The Edge of Night" to a barely audible background element. The rhythm is steady and stealthy, a slow-motion oscillation between live and looped tracks, most often with a hip-hop sensibility. More important, every musician on each cut plays with a belief that overplaying only subverts the goals of collective improvisation. If any one album can be said to pick up on the surreal funk explorations of latter-day Miles Davis, Uninvisible is it.
© Robert L. Doerschuk /TiVo
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Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Aaron Johnson, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Bogie, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Wood, Composer, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Simon, Flugelhorn, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - John Medeski, Composer, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Martin, Composer, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - Jordan McLean, Flugelhorn, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Herbst, Bass Clarinet, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Chris Wood, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - John Medeski, Composer, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Martin, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Chris Wood, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Medeski, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Billy Martin, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - DJ Olive, Programming, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bruce Hampton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Chris Wood, Composer, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - John Medeski, Composer, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Martin, Composer, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer - Danny Blume, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DJ P Love, Programming, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, Drum Programming, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Chris Wood, Composer, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - John Medeski, Composer, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Martin, Composer, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer - Eddie Bobe, Bells, Percussion, Conga, AssociatedPerformer - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Chris Wood, Composer, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - John Medeski, Composer, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Martin, Composer, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer - Eddie Bobe, Bells, Percussion, Conga, AssociatedPerformer - Danny Blume, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DJ P Love, Programming, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Chris Wood, Composer, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - John Medeski, Composer, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Martin, Composer, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DJ P Love, Programming, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brad Roberts, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Chris Wood, Composer, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - John Medeski, Composer, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Martin, Composer, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Chris Wood, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - John Medeski, Composer, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Martin, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Aaron Johnson, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Bogie, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Wood, Composer, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Simon, Flugelhorn, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - John Medeski, Composer, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Martin, Composer, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer - Danny Blume, Guitar, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - Jordan McLean, Flugelhorn, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Herbst, Bass Clarinet, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Chris Wood, Composer, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - John Medeski, Composer, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Martin, Composer, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Chris Wood, Composer, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - John Medeski, Composer, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Martin, Composer, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, Drum Programming, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Chris Wood, Composer, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - John Medeski, Composer, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Martin, Composer, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DJ P Love, Programming, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Scott Harding, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Fossenkemper, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Chris Wood, Composer, Bass Guitar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - John Medeski, Composer, Keyboards, Hammond Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Martin, Composer, Bells, Drums, Triangle, AssociatedPerformer - Danny Blume, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Medeski Martin & Wood, MainArtist - DJ Olive, Programming, AssociatedPerformer - Greg Griffiths, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2002 Blue Note (R) is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.. ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
Album review
Uninvisible is further than ever from conventional jazz organ. While blues and funk influences are evident throughout the album, they float on a sea of shadows. Sound sources are obscure or exotic; on "Pappy Check" innovative scratching by turntablist DJ Olive creates an impression of African percussion more than club atmospherics. Even where the instrumentation is less ambiguous, the trio steers toward a filmic noir sensibility, with Medeski leading the way in unorthodox techniques. His pitch-bend solo on "Take Me Nowhere" suggests the creak of a rusty hinge, with Wood's acoustic bass providing the anchor for his abstractions. Wood is in fact often mixed higher than Medeski, to the effect of reducing the keyboard parts to a sideline role and the album in turn to an exercise in mood more than virtuosity -- an impression enhanced by a similarly eccentric shrinkage of the power guitar part on "The Edge of Night" to a barely audible background element. The rhythm is steady and stealthy, a slow-motion oscillation between live and looped tracks, most often with a hip-hop sensibility. More important, every musician on each cut plays with a belief that overplaying only subverts the goals of collective improvisation. If any one album can be said to pick up on the surreal funk explorations of latter-day Miles Davis, Uninvisible is it.
© Robert L. Doerschuk /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:50:10
- Main artists: Medeski, Martin & Wood
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Blue Note Records
- Genre: Jazz
© 2002 Blue Note Records ℗ 2002 Blue Note Records
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