Medeski Martin & Wood

Making the world safe for jazz—that’s a full-time job these days, and no matter how hard a band or a program director or a club owner works to make jazz accessible, well, it’s always going to be a hard sell. Unless you’ve got grooves like Medeski Martin & Wood, who have somehow managed to carve out a special hipster niche, and attract the attention of the alt-rock contingent. Maybe its because they have great rock ’n’ roll instincts, maybe it’s the bebop underpinnings, maybe it’s the turntables and the remixes. Whatever it is, we’re filing our tax extensions now, giving us until August to figure it out. Pantages Theatre, 710 Hennepin Ave. , (612) 339-7007.