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Medeski, Martin and Wood - UNINVISIBLE (Alexandar Sharanac) , 27.02.2004 UNINVISIBLE After Miles Davis's pioneer work, fusion music took the strait road, with very little experimenting done. Rare were artist that dared to step into unknown, to really cross the border. In the 1970-ies, Colosseum was such a bend, who simultaneously held top avant-garde positions in jazz and hard rock. At the centuries crossing, such position seek to gain artists like French trumpeter Erik Truffaz, or Medeski, Martin & Wood, who introduced into jazz elements of drum'n'bass and techno music. Uninvisible, album recorded in year 2002 by Medeski, Martin & Wood, has its origin deep into work of Jimmy Smith, especially his Root Down record, which turned out to be great ground for such experiments (remember that Beastie Boys took its title track and made it into MTV hit in 1995). This means that Uninvisible is highly funky, danceable record. This is additionally highlighted by adding DJ Olive to the staff. But this is just a surface. If you try to stay with it, you'll notice that something is wrong with conception. There is something uninvisible to the first look, something that tells you that Medeski, Martin & Wood never meant to play music for dancing, but for heavy listening. Sometimes that something is weird orchestration, somethime strange, exiting sounds coming from John Medeski's organ, sometimes it is sudden, unexpected rhythm changing of Billy Martin. But on this album, it is most often incredible bass lines of Chris Wood. On most tracks, Wood uses electric bass, but he makes best performances when he switches to acoustic double base (just listen to Take Me Nowhere or Ten Dollar High). Yet, no matter of the instrument he plays, he uses simple cuts, riffs, repeating phrases and still constantly moves forward. He can pass from funky riff into jazz walking bass and back again in a matter of seconds. And all the time, combining his playing with unorthodox organ technique of John Medeski, he manages to create such free and innovating harmonic changes of which even Ornette Coleman himself would not be ashamed. Uninvisible is album that tries to have it all - from modern techno music, through funk and rock, up to free jazz. And it is album that is successive at it. It is highly recommendable to everyone. Alexandar Sharanac () Here you can take tracks from this album
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