Schedule
Friday, August 7 at 4:00 - 5:00 pm (Foundation Stage)
Friday, Friday, August 7 at 10:00 PM (The Moon at O’Bannon’s)
At the very heart of what we strive to do is to gift your ears and mind with era-defining jazz-centric music. Like all music and art forms, jazz is constantly evolving, leaning into multiple genres, kicking down doors, looking to the past and projecting into the future. Jazz just doesn’t sit still. And so, by bringing Kamasi Washington to these mountains, we are thrilled to share one of the artform’s most exceptional composers, a purveyor of unexpected inspiration and a musician whose talent is sought out by countless of his peers.
Supergroup, in the house! DTF is drummer Adam Deitch of Lettuce, guitarist Ari Teitel of Dumpstaphunk and Hiss Golden Messenger’s Sam Fribush on organ. What we have here, folks, is an outfit that brings jazz, funk and deep grooves to every cell in your body.
Hear for yourself on 2025’s, Another Side of Sound. The 12-track release, recorded to a vintage Tascam 388 at Colorado Sound Studio in Denver, lays down infectious groove, lush organ, soulful guitar, and Adam’s funkified jazz sensibilities on the kit. As groovy as this record is, Adam explained that the three gave each other plenty of room to play. “We’re all playing in a quiet, kind of chill manner – letting everything breathe and not trying to fill up the space. It’s just feel-good music.”
Playing as a trio gives the band a certain nimbleness, Ari says. “Being a small instrumental group, we have complete freedom to play how we want, and pull from all our influences and experience. At the flip of a switch we can move from greasy New Orleans funk to modern jazz and hip hop. Everything is on the table at all times.”
DTF brings a twist to what a jazz organ trio can do. The very sound of the organ drips nostalgia, but when these cats settle in, Sam said, there’s a desire “to push the limits. It’s undeniably nasty and puts our stamp on what an organ trio can be.”
We can get behind that.
