Deadeye w/ Reinier Baas, Kit Downs & Jonas Burgwinkel

The combination of guitar, drums and Hammond organ has been extremely popular for a long time: in jazz as well as pop and rock. There was the rousing soul jazz when Jimmy Smith or Jack McDuff let the Hammond organ hiss wildly in the 1960s. There was Larry Young, who fused jazz with rock in the trio Lifetime. There was Emerson, Lake & Palmer, who filled concert halls around the world with their heavy rock in the 1970s. There was the trio Medeski, Martin & Wood, who have been touring the country with their wild jam jazz for two and a half decades - albeit with bass guitar instead of guitar. And there is Deadeye with Jonas Burgwinkel (drums), Kit Downs (Hammond) and Reinier Baas (guitar). This German-Dutch-British trio positions itself somewhere in between. For example, the three musicians hint at the Haydays of soul jazz, but suddenly switch to the quaint folklore of Great Britain. Or they play noisy rock, but suddenly bring some of the compositional principles of new music into focus. It is not the individual style categories that are of value, but the experimentation with them in order to create their own syntax from individual building blocks.

This trio can stop you cold just playing the melody. - Stereophile magazine