Seattle jazz/ R & B/ funk/ psychedelic trio The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio (DLO3) released their second album earlier this year. Here’s a track from it – “From the Streets” – that will have you wondering where the organ is in this organ trio:

Listen to this album on a good stereo and marvel at Delvon Lamarr’s left hand Hammond organ bass lines on this track. You’d be forgiven for thinking there’s no organ in this organ trio on this track but that bass-line is it…

The Meters, Jimmy Smith and Booker T. & the M.G.’s are all reference points of course, but it was actually deep affection for Beastie Boys “The In Sound From Way Out” (the only Beastie Boys release I own; a collection of previously released instrumentals gathered together from ‘Check Your Head’, ‘Ill Communication’, ‘Jimmy James’ and ‘Sure Shot’, released in April 1996) that drew me to this album when I heard it playing in Relics Music store in Dunedin today.

In addition to keyboard maestro Delvon Lamarr the trio is guitarist Jimmy James (tasteful master of funk, R & B, jazz, and wild psychedelic freak out guitar) and, on this album, drummer Grant Schroff. A new drummer Dan Weiss is on the trio’s latest single, the playfully-titled “Cold As Weiss”:

There’s a couple of recent KEXP Live to Airs you can find on YouTube if you are so inclined….