"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... 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."
- Bill Milkowski (regular contributor to Jazz Times and Jazziz magazines)
Seven Days (Burlington, VT)
"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."
- Ethan Covey
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, and Ron Affif has a couple of nice solos."
- Gilles Bacon
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."
- Ryan Richardson
JamBase NYC (from a review of Will Bernard's Otherbug)
"Klipple added in some really nice and sometimes brain-stretching solos that featured some 'anything my left-hand can do, my right-hand can do better' acrobatics on the keyboards."
- Aaron Stein
The Village Voice
"The pianist/organist and his band perform a creative blend of hip-hop, funk, swing and blues."
Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA)
"Pianist Adam Klipple varies his styles, sounding like south-of-the-border Latin pianists or Sun Ra himself on songs like 'Dancing Shadows'."
- David Kunian
Cultural Calendar (U.S. Embassy, Moscow, Russia)
"JAZZ AMBASSADORS 'AK4' WOW AUDIENCES IN THREE-CITY RUSSIAN TOUR: The Jazz Ambassador group 'AK4' (The Adam Klipple Quartet) performed to packed, enthusiastic crowds in Tver, Nizhniy Novgorod and Yekaterinburg October 2-8 (2003). The quartet consistently bowled over audiences with their virtuoso brand of Latin jazz, receiving excellent television and press coverage in all three cities. DCM John Beyrle traveled to the once closed city of Nizhniy Novgorod, AK4's second stop, and introduced the musical envoys to the predominately college-age crowd that jammed the 800 seat hall."
The Berkshire Eagle (Great Barrington, MA)
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... In its inverted melody and dark resolves, 'Pathology' lived up to its title and its evocation of classic bebop. The theme's three-chord figure landed on a dark, almost dissonant note. Klipple's gauzy piano solo was constructed of licks so repetitive they were like the musical equivalent of an obsessive-compulsive disorder, with flashes of insight any time the pattern varied... 'Morning' was an impressionistic ballad, with the guitarist feathering a bed of color with his slide, answered by angelic keyboard atop a walking bass line and dashes of percussion on cymbals and heads... The band closed the first set in a fury of group improvisation."
- Seth Rogovoy
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."
Soundz Impossible: An On-Line Journal of Creative and Experimental Music
(Craig Harris Plays Works by Sun Ra, at the NY Society for Ethical Culture, NYC)
"Adam Klipple - a member of Michael Ray's Cosmic Krewe - probably had the most familiarity with Sun Ra's work. He added a behind the scenes richness with his organ and electric piano sounds."
Cadence: The Review of Jazz and Blues: Creative Improvised Music
"The District Curators put together a first-rate Jazz Arts Festival '97 [July 4 concert, Washington, D.C.]... Live pictures from Mars are cool, but while Sojourner was beaming back the first pics, we were watching live people from Saturn. Michael Ray & the Cosmic Krewe enhanced by several members of the Sun Ra Arkestra landed and uncorked a blistering set of Jazz-funk-space-hoo-doo. The entire ensemble cooked, with Adam Klipple and Tim Green exploding with solo after solo that tore the place up..."
- Kevin Mumane
CD Review
"Pianist Adam Klipple isn't content to play a Ra clone. He proves to be a startlingly melodic and free-wheeling player, dipping his keys in orchestral hues on his self-penned tune 'Pathology' and floating through the free-fall of Ra's 'Island in Space'."
- John Diliberto
The Valley News
"... former Glasgo student and current piano wunderkind Adam Klipple... Klipple, who may be more familiar to Upper Valley club crawlers as a member of the Al Alessi Band, is simply frighteningly good, the kind of young talent who makes you dizzy when you think of the years ahead... This is a jazz band to listen to, yes with solo work - especially Klipple's contributions - guaranteed to make you laugh and thrill, but your feet have different standards of appreciation than your ears... Klipple simply ripped up every solo break that came his way, often starting with gentle melodic statements, but generally ending in astonishing demonstrations of his gift for fortissimo rhythmic breakdowns of 10-finger chord voicings."
- William Craig
The Burlington Free Press
"The group then launched into 'Discipline No. 27,' an avant gut-bucket number that featured Adam Klipple, a standout pianist who has gone to school on Cecil Taylor and McCoy Tyner and earned his degree."
- Mark Madigan
