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Not Not Jazz (a documentary about Medeski Martin Wood) (www.justwatch.com)

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There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood, where the camera prowls around bassist Chris Wood as he slowly saws his upright bass on an upstate New York tennis court dotted with fallen leaves. There are a lot of scenes like that in “Not Not Jazz.” I suspect that if you’re as interested in the process of music as in the result, it’ll be one of the elements you’ll like most about the movie.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/not-not-jazz-documentary-movie-review-2024

The trailer is here: https://youtu.be/pon7EKYNe14

It's available on AppleTV or however you watch stuff like this.

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[–] cabron_offsets 5 points 1 month ago

MMW’s early shit is fucking amazing. Back when they were mainly acoustic jazz. Everything up through Friday afternoon in the universe is must-own. Yes, there’s a lot of Hammond B3 and clavinet and whatnot, but it’s good shit. And these guys put on a fucktacular live show.

Their later shit with DJ logic and Scofield, I’d pass. Combustication was pretty blah, but Latin Shuffle is dope af.

They kind of had a renaissance with the radiolarians series and the stuff they did for Zorn. Nothing like their early stuff, but still good.

Best album has to be it’s a jungle in here. Also, their cover of Angel Race/I’ll wait for you is amazing.

Fuck, I miss the old MMW.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

MMW was, together with Joe Pass, my first experimentation with anything resembling jazz back when I was a kid and had access to some of these private torrent trackers for music (first oink and later waffle.fm). I loved End of the World Party, and made me explore further anything with a "jazz"-label on it at the time. So I feel I owe them some debt for that.

Documentary seems interesting, and I'll add it to my watchlist.