The trio “Groovy Organ” in the Frankfurter Jazzkeller and in the stream.
Groovy Organ “? One can almost speak of a pleonasm, a duplication of the same meaning, similar to the proverbial “white mold”. Because the Hammond B3 organ at issue here is simply an instrument that – at least classically – is closely linked to the groove in jazz and pop music.
The trio advertised under this signature around the French organist Jean-Yves Jung, the guitarist Martin Scales and Andreas Neubauer on the drums, which gave a (still available) livestream concert in the Frankfurt Jazzkeller, acts very traditionally: It moves on the basis of the hardbop of the late fifties, in the field of tension between a rhythmic character by the rhythm & blues and a differentiated harmonic sophistication.
In great tradition
A tradition that names like Art Blakey, Cannonball Adderley or Horace Silver stand for – and of course jazz-historical titans of the organ such as Jimmy Smith, Larry Young, Jack McDuff and Don Patterson.
The sound is very tidy, with a connection to the jazz fusion. Jean-Yves Jung does not play an original instrument, but an adequate – and much easier to transport – sound clone without a pedal keyboard. It is a hundred percent secure terrain on which this strong improvisation soloist ensemble moves – but it does so here with a relaxed-seeming emphasis that is absolutely capable of captivating itself.
The basis are standards such as Cole Porter’s “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To” and Chick Corea’s “Humpty Dumpty” as well as numbers by Lou Donaldson, Freddie Hubbard and Charlie Parker, including a few of his own compositions.
Jean-Yves Jung, born in 1969 and, also at the piano, active as a sideman among others with Philip Catherine, Billy Cobham, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Biréli Lagrène, is a master of dynamically differentiated playing, as in the ballads, also atmospherically strong play that goes far beyond the pronounced percussive touch technique of Jimmy Smith goes beyond. He is less of a fireworker, his thing is more the subtle effects.
Martin Scales, also known as a member of the hr big band, sets relaxed and swiftly flowing lines in the jazz cellar with a phenomenal instrumental eloquence, elevated above the sleek virtuoso effects. Andreas Neubauer is a constantly commenting polyrhythmic impulse giver. As unspectacular as it may be in the approach of this concert – here music is played on a light level.
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