Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Warm-up Set (Live on KEXP)

KEXP · 15.8M views · 2017 · 18:29

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Why Hacker News recommends it

HN people recommend it as a great live KEXP session with standout guitar work and good sound.

What it is

A live KEXP warm-up set by the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, recorded at Upstream Music Fest in 2017. The set includes Move On Up and Memphis.

Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2020 to 2025.

What Hacker News said

Strong rec brodouevencode · 2020-01 · on “New era for KEXP: How this radio station is doing top-notch live video (2014)”

KEXP was the first time I saw the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, with Jimmy James on guitar. He's hands down one of the most talented guitarists alive today. Sample vid: [this video]

Recommends magicalhippo · 2021-04 · on “A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015)”

The KEXP stuff also sounds as good if not better than album recordings most of the time. Quite impressive stuff both of them. Of course there's something magical about live sets that often get lost on studio recordings. Great thing we have sources like NPR Tiny Desk and KEXP so we can discover and enjoy awesome music. Just throwing in some semi-random sets I enjoy KEXP [this video] Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio [LINK] Billy Strings & Don Julin [LINK] amiina [LINK] Mokoomba [LINK] Kikagaku Moyo [LINK] José González NPR [LINK] Andrew Bird [LINK] Trombone Shorty [LINK] DakhaBrakha

Cites alganet · 2025-09 · on “Time travel? Or, just clever technology”

Fair enough, you couldn't have something like the vocalist cueing the bassist and the drummer picking it up out of thing air and doing an improvised roll, like it happens here: [LINK] The drummer takes a little bit more than a second to react to it (higher than a lot of stream delays by the way, but I can see how the stacking could mess it up). That is, however, a bunch of experienced jazz musicians improvising at a high level. In most jams, these conversations happen very often on the next bar (1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and you react on the next 1). You can see a drummer using the end of a bar to cue the flourish used on the organ in this part, for example: [this video] It takes multiple seconds for t