- Let's Go Everywhere
- Medeski Martin & Wood
$17
Experimental-jazz trio John Medeski, Billy Martin, and Chris Wood may be reaching out to a younger audience, but their trademark funkadelia remains intact. Far from alienating, the early-'70s groove on these tracks (some of them instrumental) can transform Hokey-Pokeying birthday partiers into a pretween Mod Squad. Meanwhile, parents can close their eyes and go back to a cooler version of their own youths—you can almost hear the wood paneling, lava lamps, and shag rugs. It's still kid music, though: The requisite pirate song is present and accounted for, as are multiple nursery rhymes. MMW (as their adult fans know them) even make "All Around the Kitchen"—possibly 2007's most covered children's song-fresh and different. —Ages 2 to 6
