Joe Kap

The Joe Kap Organ Trio: Street Noise

by Michael P. Gladstone
May 2, 2004

This recording of largely original compositions from the Joe Kap (né Kaplowitz) Organ Trio is a combination of the old and the new, insofar as the genre of organ-guitar-drum groups are concerned. The band well may have been playing the last set at Dupree's Rib Joint, possibly located near the intersection of Myrtle and Bedford Avenues in Brooklyn, NY, which geographically covers the first two tracks.

The first half of this album seems to be blue and funky, ...

Joe Kap Organ Trio: Street Noise

by Jim Santella
March 21, 2004

The familiar jazz organ trio holds a special place in history, as well as on the contemporary scene. The sound is soft-pedaled and funky, but filled with all the essential elements of good music. Joe Kap takes a melody out of its gift-wrapped package and delivers it to his audience with flowers and ribbons all around. He embellishes and re-invents, so that the tune comes back at you with echoes of funk and cool struttin’ laying right out there on ...