John Medeski in Katowice

John Medeski is an American keyboardist and composer born in Louisville in 1965, best known as a member of the improvisational jazz-funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood. His Hammond B-3 organ, piano and clavinet shape albums including Shack-man, Combustication and Uninvisible, while his other projects include recordings with guitarist John Scofield and the group The Word. During the 1990s, Medeski Martin & Wood developed their concert repertoire in New York clubs including the Knitting Factory, then took their improvisational sets into theatres and festivals including Bonnaroo and the Newport Jazz Festival. After recording A Go Go with John Scofield in 1998, he and the trio performed with the guitarist, a partnership later billed as Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood. He also toured with The Word, an organ-and-pedal-steel group featuring Robert Randolph and members of North Mississippi Allstars.