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▀▀▓▓█▌ Medeski Martin & Wood - Let's Go Everywhere ░
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▀▀▄▓▒▓ Artist .....: Medeski Martin & Wood ▓▒▓
▐█▓▓ Title ......: Let's Go Everywhere ▓▓█
▀██▓ Year .......: 2008 ▓██
██▓ Genre ......: Jazz ▓██
███ Label ......: Megaforce ▓██
███ Source .....: CD ▓█▓
███ Bitrate ....: 184 kbps avg ██▓
███ khz ........: 44.1 █▓▓
███ Mode .......: Joint Stereo ██▓
██▓ Encoder ....: LAME v3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ██▓
██▓ Reldate ....: 2008-01-17 ▓██
██▓ Storedate ..: 2008-01-08 ▓██
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███ 1. Waking Up 1:06 ███
███ 2. Let's Go Everywhere 3:33 ███
███ 3. Cat Creeps 2:46 ███
███ 4. The Train Song 3:53 ███
███ 5. Where's the Music 3:13 ███
███ 6. Pat A Cake 1:10 ███
███ 7. Pirates Don't Take Baths 2:41 ███
███ 8. Far East Sweets 2:53 ███
███ 9. On An Airplane 2:14 ███
███ 10. The Squalb 3:18 ███
███ 11. Let's Go 2:38 ███
███ 12. Old Paint 2:41 ███
███ 13. Hickory Dickory Dock 1:03 ███
███ 14. All Around the Kitchen 2:28 ███
███ 15. We're All Connected 4:09 ███
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███▌ Release ▀ ███
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██▓ Despite the fact that jazz is one of the great ▓██
██▓ American art forms, its current popularity among ▓██
██▓ the population is not exactly mass-market. As a ▓██
██▓ result, I'm hesitant to call Let's Go Everywhere, ▓██
██▓ the first kids music CD from the popular modern ▓██
██▓ jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood, a good kids' jazz ▓██
██▓ CD. Because if I did so, I'm afraid that a lot of ▓██
██▓ people that would otherwise enjoy the CD would just ▓██
██▓ tune me out. ▓██
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██▓ Take the insanely catchy title track, which, unlike ▓██
██▓ MMW's previous discography, features vocals (by Tim ▓██
██▓ Ingham) and lyrics that beg for singalongs. The ▓██
██▓ track, which echoes Johnny Cash's "I've Been ▓██
██▓ Everywhere," features throwaway lines like ▓██
██▓ "Tijuana, Grand Bahama, don't forget to call your ▓██
██▓ mama." It's propulsive, hand-clappy, and a poppy ▓██
██▓ hit -- it certainly won't sound like jazz to most ▓██
██▓ people. Or one of the better songs begging for ▓██
██▓ kid-interaction I've heard, "Where's the Music?," a ▓██
██▓ funky jam that breaks down every now and then only ▓██
██▓ to be started up by gleeful kids begging, nay, ▓██
██▓ shouting, "Where's the music?!?" ▓██
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██▓ That's not all. "Pat a Cake," a punky rap featuring ▓██
██▓ a number of kids -- a quick track which, judging by ▓██
██▓ the number of e-mails about it I received after my ▓██
██▓ recent NPR chat, will be heard in a lot of ▓██
██▓ households this spring. John Lurie's spoken-word ▓██
██▓ piece "The Squalb" features gentle musical ▓██
██▓ accompaniment and manages to be mysterious and ▓██
██▓ reassuring all at once -- if you need 3 minutes and ▓██
██▓ 17 seconds of silence via rapt attention in the ▓██
██▓ car, play this track. ▓██
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██▓ I don't mean to give the tracks which do sound more ▓██
██▓ jazzy short shrift, because those are excellent, ▓██
██▓ too. "The Cat Creeps" has a funky, slinky bass line ▓██
██▓ and tinkly piano that absolutely sounds like a cat ▓██
██▓ creeping. "Let's Go" sounds like it could've been ▓██
██▓ recorded 45 years ago in some West Coast studio ▓██
██▓ (except for the kids occasionally shouting "Let's ▓██
██▓ go!" in the background). And for those of you ▓██
██▓ looking for a little deconstruction of classic ▓██
██▓ tunes, "Old Paint" (on which the trio channels the ▓██
██▓ Vince Guaraldi Trio) and a nearly unrecognizable ▓██
██▓ (but fun in its own way) "All Around the Kitchen" ▓██
██▓ will fit the bill. ▓██
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██▓ Out tomorrow, the 40-minute album will appeal ▓██
██▓ mostly to kids ages 4 through 9, but if you're not ▓██
██▓ listening to this and having fun, I don't know what ▓██
██▓ to say. You can listen to four tracks at the ▓██
██▓ album's Myspace page and a couple here. ▓██
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██▓ In the liner notes, both the band and Tim Ingham ▓██
██▓ sound almost surprised at how well the album turned ▓██
██▓ out. The band says "the best part was ▓██
██▓ collaborating, improvising and making new friends. ▓██
██▓ Who this was going to be one of our favorite ▓██
██▓ records." Mine too. That sense of fun and wonder ▓██
██▓ comes through loud and clear on every track. So ▓██
██▓ rather than calling Let's Go Everywhere a good ▓██
██▓ kids' jazz CD, let's call it what it really is -- a ▓██
██▓ great CD. Period. Saying this when the year is ▓██
██▓ barely a week old sounds like damning with faint ▓██
██▓ praise, but it's true -- Let's Go Everywhere is the ▓██
██▓ first great kids' CD of 2008. Highly recommended. ▓██
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