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Jim Mullen Organ Trio

Smokescreen

Diving Duck

Smokescreen is the culmination of two years of touring and writing for the trio since their last offering, the highly-respected Gig Bag.

Featuring sixoriginals from the pens of Mike Gorman and Jim Mullen, the band is at it's creative and swinging best.

Review from Jazz UK

Guitarist Jim Mullen’s trio, with the admirable Mike Gorman on Hammond B-3 and drummer Matt Skelton, is quite a fixture on the circuit these days and a welcome one too. That evocative organ sound, complete with its built-in bass line, seems to reach parts that other instruments never quite do, a machine tailor-made for generating compelling grooves. Add Mullen’s tersely swinging guitar and a crisp beat and you have a formula geared to pleasure.

Gorman has a light touch, his lines neatly resolved without bombast or unbearable excess, as on Bacharach’s ‘Walk On By’; Mullen is similarly cogent, the rest of the programme largely devoted to strong originals, the majority by Gorman, with one by Mullen. Star saxophonist Stan Sulzmann joins in on three, his soprano expertly pacing Mullen’s bubbling guitar on ‘The White Cockade’.