Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Cold As Weiss (2022) Colemine (FLAC) LP - Soul/Funk/Jazz

Over the course of the last five years, the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio have established themselves as the world's premier funky organ trio. The organ trio, along with founder and manager Amy Novo, continues to devise the perfect blend of raw, passionate music and engaging industry practices. Through a firm partnership with label Colemine Records, the trio has garnered Billboard charting albums, sold out shows, tens of thousands of albums sold, and millions of streams. Lofty accomplishments for an instrumental organ trio, that finds them tighter than ever, and continuing to push funky instrumental music to a new generation of fans. I posted their 2021 "i told you so" album on the old blog.This is their latest effort apart from the live album released at the same period that i may post up at some stage,we,ll see. Delvon Lamarr plays like John Patton, and Lamarr and his crew go into Beast Mode every time out.  and this is a burner, just like the other two released. Cold as Weiss (Colemine Records) doesn’t dick around with the soul-funk-jazz formula of maximal instrumental party music straight out of the Mad Men era, it’s just adding more of that same sweetness. With the drummer being called out right in the album title, I’m naturally going to put an extra ear on what Dan Weiss is laying down here. In particular, there are some really good groovin’ on “Get Da Steppin’,” “Slip ‘N’ Slide” and “Keep On Keepin’ On” but there’s so much more to like about Cold as Weiss. DLO3 can draw in people who might usually stay away from instrumental music with hooks and hummable lead lines that makes the need for a singer entirely dispensable. On “Pull Your Pants Up,” Delvon Lamarr’s organ lines mimic the cadence of sassy singing and “I Wanna Be Where You Are” has a Burt Bacharach type of melody that Dionne Warwick could have sung. Not only can this trio groove and make good melodies, these guys can flat out play. On “Don’t Worry ‘Bout What I Do” Jimmy James ripped open some nasty licks in his solo. “Big TT’s Blues” is a straight up blues and Lamarr and guitarist Jimmy James display way more than a passing knowledge of the great music form. “Uncertainty” has that gospel-tinged early-’70s Southern soul vibe with James providing the lyrical lines this time. “Slip ‘N’ Slide” is a happy hallelujah tune with a bit of that Big Easy RnB flavor. James’ chicken scratching on “This Is Who I Is” is next level and then he launches into psychedelic-era wailing that’s about as good as acid jazz guitar gets....like my great friend Yves,i cant get enough of these guys,such a great retro groove! I have all their albums,but like everything on here its getting the time to post up the music i have as their,s 1000,s in the Queue!...Its a case of so much music and so little time!

AMM

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