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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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Just in Bin: Delvon Lamarr, Irene Jalenti, Tony Malaby, Omri Ziegele, Marta Sanchez, and more
by David Brown
This week, recent releases, acquisitions and record store finds. Soul sounds from Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Sonny Stitt and Bunky Green, new releases from Tony Malaby, Rob Mazurek and Immanuel Wilkins, classics from Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson and the John Coltrane Trio, and more. Welcome friends and neighbors to The Jazz Continuum. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we will explore the elements of jazz and creative music from a historical perspective Playlist ...
read moreIggy Pop, Maya Dunietz, Circles 44, Three Layer Cake & More New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
A Hammond Organ spotlight opens the show, courtesy of the WRD Trio, the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio and the James Taylor Quartet. Its groove then gives way to the contemporary sounds of Mark Lettieri and Taylor Eigsti's latest collaboration with Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens, the splendid new albums of Israeli pianist Maya Dunietz and bassist Almog Sharvit; the jazz forays of the Stooges' Iggy Pop (with Dr. Lonnie Smith) and Mike Watt (with Three Layer Cake); the return of ...
read moreHeavy Organ Indeed: Chester Thompson and The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
by Doug Collette
No less of an esteemed musical figure than Steve Winwood has waxed rhapsodic about the instrumental potential of the Hammond B3 organ. Doubtlessly Chester Thompson and Delvon Lamarr would extol the keyboard's virtues too and neither would relegate their praise to mere words either, at least based on their two albums centered around it. Witness, for instance, how both men declare tacit confidence in the combined efficiency and expanse of the organ by configuring small combos to illustrate its versatility ...
read moreDelvon Lamarr Organ Trio: I Told You So
by Mark Corroto
To quote The Stranger in the film The Big Lebowski (1998), “Sometimes there's a man. I won't say a hero, 'cause what's a hero? Sometimes there's a man, and I'm talkin' about the dude here, sometimes there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place." In the 21st century, you might nominate Delvon Lamarr as the dude, or his dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino... You get the drift. The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio is a ...
read more“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
