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Having a pair of Berklee College of Music-educated parents with two drum sets in the basement likely didn\u2019t hurt Adam Deitch\u2019s love of music\u2014the drummer has been writing songs since he was 10 years old.<\/p>\n
That early access to instruments\u2014and wading through his parents\u2019 record collection, replete with Earth, Wind & Fire and Tower of Power albums\u2014shaped the drummer and producer\u2019s decades-long career as he\u2019s bounded from funk and jazz to hip-hop.<\/p>\n
Forming a relationship with the members of funk-jazz instrumental outfit Soulive fed into Deitch\u2019s developing the band Lettuce, and he credits them for helping solidify the band early on, though he says Lettuce has become a sturdier, self-sustaining endeavor during the past decade.<\/p>\n
Even as Deitch led Lettuce through a steady stream of self-produced recordings, he remained ensconced in a range of other projects. He\u2019s toured with Wu Tang Clan\u2019s GZA and recorded with an eponymous jazz quartet and an organ trio, Deitch Teitel Fribush, which issued its debut in 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor every project, I have my hand in a lot of the production,\u201d the bandleader says, adding that each endeavor, regardless of genre, leads him back to Lettuce. \u201cEvery record that I do, it\u2019s not like I just go in and play drums and leave. A lot of thought goes into it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like Deitch, Lettuce has pulled from a tapestry of sounds as it\u2019s developed: P-Funk is legion and New Orleans funk isn\u2019t far behind, but the 2019 album Elevate<\/em> included references to electronic music and hip-hop on opener \u201cTrapezoid\u201d and \u201cPurple Cabbage,\u201d respectively\u2014the latter coming off like the backing track to a lost G-funk classic.<\/p>\n For the group\u2019s latest studio album, Cook<\/em>, Lettuce conceptually connected the recording to trumpeter Eric Bloom and saxophonist Ryan Zoidis\u2019 wine company and partnered with Aquila Cellars to release two distinct blends of vino\u2014a Crush Red and a Crush Orange coferment.<\/p>\n Like its earlier recordings, the ensemble wades through the history of instrumental funk and its related musics. Cook<\/em>\u2019s opener, \u201cGrewt Up,\u201d could be mistaken for a Daptone track, the stuttering horn line set up perfectly by bassist Erick Coomes and Deitch locking in and referencing go-go for just a split second. \u201c7 Tribes\u201d recalls slinky, Levantine efforts while still making certain to hit a truly heroic chorus. And seven tracks in, \u201cGold Tooth\u201d cultivates a Funkadelic vibe while showcasing guitarist Adam Smirnoff\u2019s wah-wah skills.<\/p>\n For those inclined to more laid back moments, \u201cStorm Coming\u201d and the closer, \u201cGhost of Yest,\u201d make passing references to dub.<\/p>\n That wide berth isn\u2019t an accident. As Deitch discusses a recent Lettuce collaboration with the Colorado Symphony, he details a love of string accompaniment, tossing out names of pertinent \u201970s soul stalwarts and mentioning an unyielding respect for arranger David Axelrod, who worked with everyone from Cannonball Adderley to The Electric Prunes. His encyclopedic understanding of the music\u2019s history started in the basement with his parents\u2019 drum kits, moved through their funky record collection, and on to the stage.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been dialing in our songwriting and getting the mixing process [down],\u201d says Deitch reflecting on the band\u2019s development, and specifically mentioning his work on Elevate<\/em> as a time of notable studio advancement. \u201cWe\u2019re just moving in the right direction and getting better at what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source c-ville.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having a pair of Berklee College of Music-educated parents with two drum sets in the basement likely didn\u2019t hurt Adam Deitch\u2019s love of music\u2014the drummer has been writing songs since he was 10 years old. That early access to instruments\u2014and wading through his parents\u2019 record collection, replete with Earth, Wind & Fire and Tower of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2254208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/New-Lettuce-record-blends-music-varietals-and-wine-too.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254209,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254207\/revisions\/2254209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}