| The Dropper | |
| Type: | Studio album |
| Artist: | Medeski Martin & Wood |
| Cover: | MMW - The Dropper.jpg |
| Released: | October 24, 2000 |
| Recorded: | 1999–2000 (Shacklyn, Brooklyn, NYC) |
| Genre: | Jazz funk Acid jazz Jam band |
| Length: | 60:40 |
| Label: | Blue Note Records[1] |
| Producer: | Medeski Martin & Wood, Scotty Hard[2] |
| Prev Title: | Tonic |
| Prev Year: | 2000 |
| Next Title: | Electric Tonic |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
The Dropper is an album by avant-jazz-funk organ trio Medeski, Martin & Wood.[3] [4]
The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.[5]
The Washington Post wrote: "In many ways the chaotic and funk-soul soundscapes on MMW's The Dropper are not avant-garde but downright conservative, coming 40 years after the advent of organ jazz and 30 after free jazz."[6] Exclaim! called The Dropper "their crankiest, most difficult album to date, as they wade into pointy-headed jazz-funk realms, but that's only because they've burrowed more deeply still into the funk."[2] The Riverfront Times thought that "Medeski's particularly compelling in his style, banging on keyboards with a precise recklessness, and he expands his keyboard army by, it seems, dozens of instruments."[7]