In-the-pocket grooves are the specialty of this trio, which favors Booker T & the MGs and Stevie Wonder more than jazz cats like Jimmy Smith but still includes the improvisational organ-jazz sauce in their recipe. Though the leader Lamarr is the organist, he has a righteous second in guitarist Jimmy James. Each was a stalwart on the Seattle music scene, and both are especially adept at the painstaking, simmer-to-scorch soloing that steadily intensifies the prevailing groove. (Drummer David Octa Port is a relative new member.) The moral here is you don’t need to reinvent the wheel to mesmerize your roll. —Britt Robson
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Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio: Seattle’s improvisational-inclined jazz-soul instrumental combo nods to its influences in tunes like “Little Booker T” and “Al Greenery.” But this organ-guitar-drums trio has been known to pull out anything from Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” to Eminem’s “Real Slim Shady” to the Temptations’ “My Girl.” The 5-year-old group’s debut, “Close But No Cigar,” reached No. 1 on Billboard’s contemporary jazz chart in 2018. -Jon Bream
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