John Medeski / Matthew Shipp

John Medeski / Matthew Shipp: Scotty Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery

by Jeff Stockton
April 11, 2007

Jazz relies on instrumental virtuosity and the reputation of the people making it to distinguish itself, but the Thirsty Ear Blue Series seems to take the opposite approach. Extending the tradition of the Antipop Consortium, the Blue Series Continuum and the Free Zen Society, Scotty Hard's Radical Reconstructive Surgery is another semi-anonymous project that puts producer and engineer Scott Harding (Wu-Tang Clan, Medeski Martin & Wood, among others) in charge of fragmented keyboard melodies and drum-and-bass grooves that are sampled, ...