On May 10 HT faves Medeski, Martin and Wood will play a special show at Brooklyn’s Masonic Temple as part of the 2012 Undead JazzFest. For this inventive three-part gig, billed as “Medeski, Martin and Wood + ?” the trio will be joined by over a dozen special guests.
In total, the show will be split into three segments. MMW will play a full set to start. Then, the second part will see different guests rotating through each position, so there will be between six to eight different musicians replacing either John Medeski, Billy Martin or Chris Wood throughout the set, performing MMW pieces and improvisations. For the third part, the guests will sit in with all of MMW.
Today, the band has confirmed the first set of guests. Marco Benevento, Anthony Coleman, Marcus Rojas, Oren Bloedow, Vernon Reid, Charlie Burnham and Chuck Campbell will all perform as part of this unique concert with more musicians to be named later. Tickets are currently available through Ticketfly.