Medeski Martin & Wood
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2003
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Freebird Cafe
Jacksonville
FL
Intro Improv > Pappy Check > Felic > Open Improv > Dracula > Bass Solo, Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, Coconut Boogaloo > Drum Solo, Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus
The Dropper, Macha > Organ Solo > Organ Intro > Lonely Avenue, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > We're So Happy* > Toy Dancing, Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Uninvisible
Encore: Crosstown Traffic
Deco Music Fest
Miami
FL
Improv > Bass Solo/Open Improv > Ten Dollar High > The Lover > Big Time > Bass'n'Drums > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke
Start/Stop > Think > Last Chance To Dance Trance (Perhaps) > Shacklyn Knights > The Dropper, Hey Joe > Bass Solo > Chubb Sub
Encore: Pappy Check
Theatre of Living Arts
Philadelphia
PA
Billy Martin's Drop The Needle
O-East
Tokyo
Japan
Unknown setlist
Blue Note
Fukuoka
Japan
Unknown setlist
Tonic
New York
NY
One Set Only: Pappy Check > Ten Dollar High > The Dropper, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho >Open Improv > Partido Alto, Jelly Belly > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke, I Wanna Ride You, Big Time > Uninvisible
Encore: Crosstown Traffic
The Fillmore Auditorum
Denver
CO
One Set Only: Pappy Check > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High > Uninvisible > Nocturnal Transmission (2nd section)* > Improv# > My Funny Valentine#, The Lover > Beeah, Big Time > Drum Solo
Encore: Chubb Sub#
* the 2nd half of the tune where the tempo picks up (this section is often tracked out by itself when the entire tune is played)
# with DJ Z-Trip
co-bill with Galactic
The Fillmore Auditorum
Denver
CO
One Set Only: Improv > Think > Open Improv > Partido Alto > The Dropper > Jelly Belly > Drum Solo > Start/Stop# > Uninvisible# > Fire# > Smoke
# with DJ Z-Trip
* Group 'Moment of Silence' at the end of the show
co-bill with Galactic
Dobson Arena
Vail
CO
One Set Only: We're So Happy > Lonely Avenue, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Open Improv > Uninvisible > Coconut Boogaloo > Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus > Pappy Check > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High > Hey Joe > Drum Solo > Night Marchers
co-bill with Galactic
Jubilee City Fest
Montgomery
AL
Start/Stop
Buster Rides Again
Coconut Boogaloo
Partido Alto
Think
Uninvisible
E: I Wanna Ride You
Patrick Gym, UVM
Burlington
VT
One Set Only: Improv Intro > Pappy Check# > Bass Solo, Ten Dollar High#, Macha > Wiggly's Way > The Lover > Felic > Beeah, Jelly Belly > Drum Solo, Start/Stop# > The Dropper#* > Uninvisible#*
Encore: Spy Kiss#
# with DJ Logic
* with Vernon Reid
Yohimbe Brothers opened for MMW
Langerado Music Festival
Fort Lauderdale
FL
One Set Only: The Dropper, Coconut Boogaloo# > Start/Stop# > Jelly Belly > Drum Solo > Dracula > Bass'n'Drums > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High#, Bubblehouse > Uninvisible
# w/ DJ Le Spam
Michigan Theater
Ann Arbor
MI
Improv > Beeah, Where's Sly? > Bass'n'Percussion > Ten Dollar High
Pappy Check > Open Improv > Seven Deadlies, Legalize It*, The Dropper > Uninvisible
Encore: Swamp Road
* first known performance
The Agora
Cleveland
OH
Improv > Open Improv > Golden Lady > Bass Solo > Buster Rides Again > Drum Solo > Coconut Boogaloo
Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus > Wiggly's Way, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Open Improv > Partido Alto, Think > Drums'n'Bass outro, Pappy Check > Drum Solo
Encore: I Wanna Ride You
Murat Egyptian Room
Indianapolis
IN
Improv > Improv > We're So Happy > Percussion Improv > The Dropper > Improv > Big Time
Legalize It > Partido Alto, Last Chance To Dance Trance (Perhaps), Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, The Lover > Uninvisible*
Encore: I Wanna Ride You
* with Bone Digger teases
Newport Music Hall
Columbus
OH
Down On Me > Bass Solo, Ten Dollar High > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Improv > Dracula > Partido Alto
Pappy Check > Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus, Blue Pepper, Jelly Belly > Drum Solo > Percussion'n'Bass > Shacklyn Knights > I Wanna Ride You > Uninvisible
Encore: Crosstown Traffic
Pantages Theatre
Minneapolis
MN
Improv > Improv > We're So Happy > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High > Drum Solo
Down On Me > Partido Alto, The Dropper, Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus, Pappy Check, Uninvisible+
Encore: I Wanna Ride You
+ with Africa teases
Barrymore Theatre
Madison
WI
One Set Only: Improv > Improv > Percussion Improv > Percussion'n'Bass > Seven Deadlies > The Dropper, Pappy Check > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Afro Blue (w/Drum Solo), Uninvisible
Encore: Coconut Boogaloo > I Wanna Ride You (acoustic)
The Eagles Club
Milwaukee
WI
Improv > Bass Solo, Down On Me > Bass'n'Drums > Percussion Improv > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Open Improv > Beeah, Just Like I Pictured It, Pappy Check
Big Time > Legalize It > Bass'n'Drums > Bass Solo > Night Marchers > Think > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke, Uninvisible > Blue Pepper
Encore: Percussion Bass > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High
Symphony Centre
Chicago
IL
One Set Only: Afro Blue > Seven Deadlies, Afrique, Thaw > Open Improv > Your Lady, Legalize It, Buster Rides Again > Hey Joe
Encore: I Wanna Ride You
Acoustic show
State Theater
Kalamazoo
MI
Improv > Wiggly's Way > The Lover > Down On Me > Drum Solo
Jelly Belly, Improv > Toy Dancing > The Dropper > Dracula > Drums 'N' Bass > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > We're So Happy > Legalize It
E: Olde Wyne
Shaftman Performance Hall@ The Jefferson Center
Roanoke
VA
Open Improv > Improv > Improv > Down On Me > Drum Solo > Open Improv > Creole Love Call (w/ Snake Anthony bass line), Pappy Check
The Lover > Ten Dollar High > Bass Solo > Beeah, Olde Wyne > Macha > Open Improv > Partido Alto, Crosstown Traffic
Encore: Uninvisible
The Orange Peel
Asheville
NC
Charter Communications Pavilion
Birmingham
AL
Unknown setlist
Music Farm
Charleston
SC
Creole Love Call (w/ Snake Anthony bass line) > Open Improv > Down On Me > Bass Solo > The Lover > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Toy Dancing > Just Like I Pictured It
Night Marchers > I Wanna Ride You > C-Jam Blues, Coconut Boogaloo > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High > Drum Solo > Legalize It, Pappy Check* > Uninvisible
Encore: Smoke
* with Chinoiserie quotes
Music Midtown
Atlanta
GA
Unknown setlist
The Tremont Music Hall
Charlotte
NC
Spaulding Auditorium @ Dartmouth College
Hanover
NH
One Set: Improv > Bass'n'Drums Intro > Ten Dollar High > Macha > Last Chance To Dance Trance (Perhaps), Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Open Improv > Seven Deadlies, The Dropper > Fire > Smoke > Piano Solo > Rise Up*
Encore: Uninvisible
One Set Only
* w/acoustic outro
Jubilee City Fest
Montgomery
AL
Start/Stop
Buster Rides Again
Coconut Boogaloo
Partido Alto
Think
Uninvisible
E: I Wanna Ride You
The Stone Pony
Asbury Park
NJ
Philly Cheese Blunt > Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus > Start/Stop > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, The Lover > Sugar Craft > Spy Kiss > Fire > Smoke, Uninvisible
w/ DJ Logic entire show
Great Bamboozle Music Fest
other artists on bill: DJ Logic, Bamm Hollow, New Blood Revival and The Roots
Croton Point Park
Croton-on-Hudson
NY
Unknown setlist
Wolf Trap Filene Center
Vienna
VA
One Set: Open Improv > The Lover > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Where's Sly? > Seven Deadlies > Drum Solo > Blue Pepper, Pappy Check, Olde Wyne > Afro Blue, Syeeda's Song Flute > Uninvisible
One Set Only
co-headline with moe.
High Falls - Rochester International Jazzfest
Rochester
NY
One Set: Open Improv> Improv > Improv > Afro Blue > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High > Start/Stop, Sugar Craft > Nocturnal Transmission > Organ Outro > Night Marchers > Uninvisible > No Ke Ano Ahiahi
Encore: Swamp Road
* w/ acoustic We're So Happy tease
DJ Logic sat in for the entire show.
Bonnaroo Music Festival
Manchester
TN
Nocturnal Transmission, Macha, LCTDT, Billy Solo, Pappy Check*, Retirement Song*, Partido Alto*~^
Sequel, The Dropper* > Bass > Ten Dollar High^, Hey Hee Hi Ho, Felic, Fire, Smoke, I Wanna Ride You, Antibalas Horns Intro, Take Me Nowhere@, Where's Sly@, The Saint@*, Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself@, Uninvisible@
*Encore*
Moti Mo
* w/ Luther Dickenson
~ w/ Cyro Baptista's Beat The Donkey
^ w/ Cyro Baptista
@ w/ Antibalas Horn Section
FleetBoston Pavilion
Boston
MA
Improv > Rise Up > Beeah, Coconut Boogaloo*, Your Name Is Snake Anthony*, Legalize It, Pappy Check > Ten Dollar High%, Seven Deadlies%, Afro Blue%, Uninvisible, Encore: Gonzo
* w/ John Scofield
% w/ Brahim Fribgane (percussion)
Francis Winspear Centre
Edmonton
AB
Unknown setlist
Macewan Ballroon
Calgary
AB
'Intro'
Improv>
Seven Deadlies>
ITAHTLMJ>
Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho>
Improv>
Bloody Oil-ish Improv>
Nostalgia In Times Square/Angel Race (I'll Wait For You)>
Drum Solo>
Nostalgia In Times Square/Angel Race (I'll Wait For You)
Bass Solo>
Ten Dollar High
Jelly Belly>
Think
Where's Sly?>
Partido Alto
Bass Solo>
Shacklyn Knights>
Drum Solo>
Fire>
Smoke
Encore:
Uninvisible
Vancouver Jazz Festival
Vancouver
BC
Unknown setlist
Nathan Phillips Square (du Maurier Jazz Festival)
Toronto
ON
Ten Dollar High>
Beeah
Afro Blue
Jelly Belly>
Fire
Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus?>
Pappy Check>
The Dropper>
Nocturnal Transmissions
Think
Uninvisible
Encore: I Wanna' Ride You
Festival Int'l de Jazz de Montréal, Métropolis
Montréal
QC
One Set: Open Intro# > Down On Me > Henduck > Nocturnal Transmission#*, Percussion Improv > Improv Intro#* > Worms#* > Drum Solo > Drum Intro+ > Toy Dancing+*, I Wanna Ride You#+, Smoke#+, Uninvisible#*+
Encore: Pappy Check#
One Set Only
# with DJ P Love
* with Russell Gunn (trumpet)
+ with Foday Muso Suso (joins at end of Drum Solo > Toy Dancing on a junkuran; I Wanna Ride You on a kora; Smoke on a scaled down violin type instrument; Uninvisible on a kora)
Mid-Atlantic Music Festival
Lewisburg
WV
Old Wyne, Improv, Syeeda's Song Flute, Whiney Bitches, Toy Dancing, Ten Dollar High, The Dropper, Leagalize It, Uninvisible
Main Stage
National Arts Centre
Ottawa
ON
One Set: Open Improv > Bass Improv/Open Intro > Beeah, Afro Blue, Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Whiney Bitches > Drum Solo > Fire > Smoke, Toy Dancing > Open Improv > Bass Solo > Uninvisible
Encore: Organ Solo > I Wanna Ride You
One Set Only
Mangy Moose
Teton Village
WY
Improv> New Song> New Song> Sequel, Lonely Avenue
Improv> Ten Dollar High, Think> The Dropper> Legalize It, Pappy Check> Just Like I Pictured It, Uninvisible
Encore: Crosstown Traffic
LoDo Music Festival
Denver
CO
Aggie Theatre
Fort Collins
CO
Unknown setlist
Reina Sofia Park
Ibiza
Spain
Unknown setlist
Festival de Jazz de San Sebastian
San Sebastian
Spain
Acht O'Clock Rock
Is There Anybody Here That Loves My Jesus >
Coconut Boogaloo >
Whiney Bitches
Where's Sly? >
Shacklyn Knights >
I Wanna Ride You
e: Crosstown Traffic
setlist may be incomplete
Festival de Jazz de San Sebastian
San Sebastian
Spain
Unknown setlist
Festival de Jazz de San Sebastian
San Sebastian
Spain
Unknown setlist
Waterloo Concert Field
Stanhope
NJ
Big Time > Beeah > Start/Stop, Old Wyne, The Dropper, Smoke, Uninvisible > Hey Joe
opened for SCI; along with Kiki King, Soulive, Disco Biscuits and The Flaming Lips
Berkshire Mountain Music Festival
Great Barrington
MA
Improv > Improv, Cape Verdean Blues, Open Improv > Afro Blue, Lonely Avenue, Macha* > Angel Race (I'll Wait For You) > Macha, Big Time > Pappy Check
E: Crosstown Traffic
Berkshire Mountain Music Festival - Main Stage
* - w/ Ziphim (John Zorn) Quotes By Medeski; Full Band Quotes Of Angel Race Before Going Back To The Macha Groove, Then Settling On Angel Race
Suede
Park City
UT
Unknown setlist
Goose Island Fest, Finkl & Sons parking lot
Chicago
IL
Start/Stop, Seven Deadlies, Nocturnal Transmission, Big Time, Drums, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, The Golden Lady, Uninvisible, E: Hey Joe
Humphries by the Bay
San Diego
CA
Down On Me, Afro Blue, Beeah, Old Wyne > Bass Solo, Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself*, Third Stone From The Sun*, Partido Alto*, Uninvisible, E: Moti Mo
* w/ John Scofield
Hollywood Bowl
Hollywood
CA
$10 High > Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps) > The Dropper, Brigas Nunca Mais, Fire > Smoke, I Wanna Ride You
also on bill: The John Scofield Band, Roy Hargrove's RH Factor
The Fillmore
San Francisco
CA
Improv > Nocturnal Transmission, Macha > Legalize It, Beeah
Pappy Check, Syeeda's Song Flute, Retirement Song, ? [new tune],
Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are, Big Time, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Just Like I Pictured It,
Acht O'clock Rock, Uninvisible, Encore: Night Marchers > Ten Dollar High
The Mountain Winery
Saratoga
CA
Ten Dollar High , Brigas Nunca Mais , Seven Deadlies , C-Jam Blues > Wiggly's Way , Afrique , Jelly Belly
Coconut Boogaloo , [ new song ] , Dracula , [ new song ] , I Wanna Ride You , Crosstown Traffic
Evolve Festival Main Stage
Antigonish
NS
Improv >
Is There Anybody Here That Loves My Jesus? >
Open Spacy Improv >
Down On Me
Thaw >
Your Lady >
Drum Solo >
Hey Hee Hi Ho >
Open Spacy Improv >
The Dropper
Big Time >
Whiney Bitches
Macha
Olde Wyne
Encore: Crosstown Traffic
Red Rocks Ampitheatre
Morrison
CO
Intro > Start/Stop > Pappy Check, Bemsha Swing/Lively Up Yourself, Acht O'Clock Rock > Third Stone From The Sun > Fire, Spy Kiss
w/ DJ Logic
Opening for SCI
Toad's Place
New Haven
CT
unknown or new song]>
[unknown or new song]* >
[unknown or new song]* >
Henduck >
Latin Shuffle
Brigas Nunca Mais >
The Dropper >
Start/Stop
Wiggly's Way
Afro Blue
Happy Birthday to Billy
I Wanna Ride You
Encore:
Note Bleu
* neither of these were the ones played on 8/22/2003
Beacon Theater
New York
NY
One Set: Open/Improv > Whiney Bitches Improv > Henduck > Down On Me > Drum Solo > Start/Stop > Creole Love Call, "Chanky Ribot"* > Open Improv/Intro* > "Bounce Bitch"* > Jelly Belly*, Afro Blue+ > Anonymous Skulls Improv*+ > Improv*+
Encore: Bass Solo > Chubb Sub > Dracula*, Night Marchers*
One Set
Most of show w/ DJ Le Spam
* w/ Marc Ribot
+ w/ Spam Allstars horn section:
--Mercedes Abal on flute
--AJ Hill on Alto Sax
--John Speck on trombone
--Steve Welsh on Baritone Sax
Club Laga
Pittsburgh
PA
Bloody Oil* > Improv > Improv > Queen Bee* > Drum Solo > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Think
Improv > We're So Happy > Bass Solo > Ten Dollar High, Acht O'Clock Rock > Note Bleu > Open Improv > Church Of Logic, Fire, Smoke
Encore: I Wanna Ride You
* 1st known performance
The Crowbar
State College
PA
Kleinhan's Music Hall
Buffalo
NY
Syeeda's Song Flute > Improv > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Partido Alto, Big Time
Sequel, Coconut Boogaloo, new song > The Dropper > Note Bleu > Brigas Nunca Mais > Toy Dancing > Uninvisible, Encore: Night Marchers
Lupo's
Providence
RI
Queen Bee*, "Bounce Bitch"^, Blue Pepper > Improv > Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps), Drum Solo > Whiney Bitches, Fire, Uninvisible, E: Bloody Oil > Ten Dollar High
*w/ Marshall Allen; ^pretend title, until we hear of a real one
Chameleon Club
Lancaster
PA
New Song > Acht O'Clock Rock > "Bounce Bitch"*, The Lover, $10 High, Beeah
Whiney Bitches > Queen Bee, Just Like I Pictured It, Legalize It, Chubb Sub, Crosstown Traffic, E: Uninvisible
*Titles in "quotes" are unofficial titles to help differentiate new songs and will change whn known.
Paramount Center for the Arts
Peekskill
NY
Improv >
Buster Rides Again
Afro Blue>
New Song
Felic>
ITAHTLMJ
New Song
Syeeda's Song Flute
The Dropper
Where's Sly?>
Improv >
We're So Happy >
Moti Mo
Encore:
I Wanna Ride You
Sentry Theater
Stevens Point
WI
Improv > Start/Stop, Queen Bee, The Dropper, Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps), Ten Dollar High, Beeah, Bloody Oil, Uninvisible
Encore: I Wanna Ride You
One set show
Canopy Club
Urbana
IL
Improv > Afro Blue > Ten Dollar High, Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho, Hey Joe
Whiney Bitches, Partido Alto, Queen Bee, The Dropper*, Fire > Smoke, Uninvisible, Moti Mo, E: Crosstown Traffic
*Medeski break (usually clav-rake, etc) consisted of Medeski screaming at the top of his lungs in Billy's direction - then back to the groove
Mississippi Nights
St. Louis
MO
Unknown setlist
The Blue Note
Columbia
MO
Mami Gato > Afro Blue > Blue Pepper, Improv > ITAHTLMJ > Drum Solo > Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho > Dracula
Start/Stop > Toy Dancing > Whiney Bitches, Queen Bee > The Dropper, Think, Chubb Sub; Encore: Uninvisible
Dave's On Dickson
Fayetteville
AR
The Warner Theater
Torrington
CT
Unknown setlist
Recher Theater
Towson
MD
Big Time, Old Wyne, $10 High, long new tune (quieter/spacier in spots)> insane drum solo> Fire
Smoke> long crazy new tune> R&Bish new tune with organ> new tune with Latinish beginning and getting pretty jazzy, incl piano> new song with crazy 60'sish bassline, Moti Mo;
Uninvisible
Star Hill
Charlottesville
VA
Club Liquid
Manchester
NH
[unknown or new song] > [unknown or new song] > [unknown or new song], Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps) > The Dropper
[unknown or new song] > Start/Stop > Wiggly's Way > [unknown or new song] > Afro Blue, Smoke > Jelly Belly, Uninvisible
Encore: Hey Joe
Higher Ground
Winooski
VT
Unknown setlist
State Theater
Portland
ME
Unknown setlist
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
North Adams
MA
Unknown setlist
Club Iota
Arlington
VA
Improv > Improv > Improv, Improv > Improv, Improv
Improv > Improv, Improv > Improv, Improv
Billy Martin - drums & percussion, birdcall
G. Calvin Weston - drums & percussion, trumpet
DJ Logic - turntables, percussion