Delvon Lamarr
The band features organist Delvon Lamarr, a self-taught virtuosic musician, with perfect pitch who taught himself jazz and has effortlessly been able to play a multitude of instruments. On guitar is the dynamo Jimmy James who eases through Steve Cropper-style chanking guitar, volcanic acid-rock freak-out lead playing, and slinky Grant Green-style jazz. From Reno, Nevada is drummer Dan Weiss (also of the powerhouse soul and funk collective The Sextones). Dan’s smoldering pocket-groove drumming locks in the trio’s explosive chemistry.
Since its humble beginnings in May, 2015, the trio has issued two Billboard-charting albums and a 45; toured nationally and internationally, and performed on live at Upstream Music Festival broadcast by KEXP that garnered over 7 million views. In the near future, DLO3 will be releasing a bevy of new music come fall and winter 2020. DLO3 is part of the hip Colemine Records family, is booked by the prestigious Kurland Agency, and is managed, owned, and operated by Delvon’s staunchly supportive wife, Amy Novo. Amy has been lovingly nicknamed “Shortcake Mafia” as a tribute to her sweet but shrewd business acumen.
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“Self-taught jazz organist Delvon Lamarr, who has a weekly residency at the Royal Room, is, along with Joe Doria of McTuff, perhaps the leading practitioner of the style in Seattle. Indeed, Doria was the one who turned a young Lamarr onto the famous Hammond B3 and its unmistakably smooth tones. His tunes and improvisations swing with startling clarity and funkiness, with solos that sneak up on you until they crescendo in a controlled chaos of arpeggios and digressions
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Sittin at the Bar
From: PlayersBy Delvon Lamarr
There Are Thorns
From: PlayersBy Delvon Lamarr
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Delvon Lamarr
Location: Seattle
Instrument: Organ, Hammond B3
