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HammondBeat.com (from a review of the compilation album 'Boogaloo to Jack McDuff')
Drive-By Leslie's rendition of 'Cold Duck Time' is a small slice of laid-back organ blues heaven featuring some down-right nasty organ work by Adam Klipple.
Bill Milkowski (regular contributor to Jazz Times and Jazziz magazines)
As ringleader of a groove-conscious crew of provocateurs collectively known as Drive-By Leslie, Adam Klipple touches on aspects of Herbie Hancock's Headhunters and The Meters while also keeping the door wide open to free-form excursions that go all the way out on a limb.
By deftly straddling that inside-outside aesthetic, Klipple and company have developed a loose-tight chemistry that transcends genres. Their second recording as a unit, 'From Memphis to Bishkek,' skillfully fuses undulating goodfoot grooves, world music allusions, dissonant harmonies and jazzy improvisations in a way that is both expansive and accessible.
Berkshire Eagle
[Adam Klipple] shows great tenacity and imagination, exploring the style [soul-jazz] from various angles and approaches in order to plumb its innermost depths and possibilities...The band closed the first set in a fury of group improvisation.
B3Groove.com
Adam Klipple brings us a unique brand of Jazz/Funk which is too soulful for Fusion and too heady for Soul-Jazz or Funk. An alumni of Michael Ray's Cosmic Krewe, Adam has been playing on the NYC scene for the last few years. This debut CD is packed with catchy tunes, some of which are Avant-Garde, but Adam balances it with down home Funk and Jazz. Drive-By Leslie lays down tight grooves...
Seven Days, Burlington
Drive-By Leslie are bounty hunters of the scorching funk groove. Pouncing on the keys of his Hammond, front man Adam Klipple has made quite a name for himself in the downtown Manhattan avant-jazz scene. This Thursday he returns to Red Square with his band of like-minded musical hooligans.
The Village Voice
The pianist and his band perform a creative blend of Brazilian, funk, swing, and blues.
The Pakistan Daily News
Adam Klipple is the rock and jazz man of the band. He played the organ in a manner not seen before. His fingers alone did not ply the keyboard, his whole being was a performance of eurythmics with a flourish: a body language that contributed as much to the composition as the music of his organ.
The Valley News
Adam Klipple is simply frighteningly good, the kind of young talnt who makes you dizzy when you think of the years ahead.
