Well you are in for a treat funk fans because instrumental debut single ‘West Memphis’ by brand new organ trio Parlor Greens is the heaviest slab (and it is a slab) of organ-led funk that I can remember hearing in quite some time. Surely the personnel must have some chops then? They certainly do, for Parlor Greens’ line-up consists of Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio’s Jimmy James, Scone Cash Players’ Adam Scone and GA-20’s Tim Carman. Damn – that is a solid outfit! Originating out of a jam, the track is all groove with echoes of those two all important touchstones of anything funky-jazzy that has some weight to it – i.e. Grant Green’s late sixties/ early seventies Blue Note band and the Meters – though there’s a nod to Idris Muhammed too. The even better news? An album will follow in the summer.
(Out now on Colemine Records)
Parlor Greens, West Memphis, Funk, jazz, Colemine Records