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| 1. | Dig
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| 2. | Lament
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| 3. | Take Me out to the Ballgame
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| 4. | If Ever I Should Leave You
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| 5. | Besamé Mucho
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| 6. | Come Dance with Me
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| 7. | Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
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| 8. | Blues Up and Down
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Jazz
Joey DeFrancesco - organ, producer
Jerry Weldon - tenor saxophone
Byron Landham - drums
DeFrancesco is the son of another Philly-area jazz organist, Papa John DeFrancesco, and the grandson of multi-instrumentalist Joe DeFrancesco, who worked with the Dorsey Brothers. Papa John let Joey sit in at his club dates when he was only seven or eight. By the age of ten he was playing weekend gigs for money and getting first-hand experience from the serious players coming through Philadelphia such as Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff. Joey's style is hard driving and bluesy, deftly mixing modern jazz complexity and chicken shack simplicity making music that is all his own. He swings ferociously, executing spot-on single-note lines with imaginative bass lines underneath them. Here Joey burns up the keys of his new Diversi organ (he's part-owner in the company) with the help of his touring trio, tenorman Jerry Weldon and drummer Byron Landham. Hear why Joey D. is universally acclaimed as the King of the Jazz Organ as he rips through such tunes a "Take me Out to the Ballgame," "Dig," "Blues Up and Down" and others.
* Glenn Ferracone - Engineer, Management, Mixing
* Joe Fields - Executive Producer
* Michael G. Nastos - Liner Notes
Joey DeFrancesco
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Apr 10, 1971 in Philadelphia, PA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Soul-Jazz, Post-Bop, Hard Bop
The music of Joey DeFrancesco -- an important force in the revival of the Hammond B-3 organ as a jazz instrument -- runs the gamut from soul-jazz and bluesy grooves à la Jimmy Smith to hard bop to the more advanced modal style of Coltrane disciple Larry Young. Born in Springfield, PA (near Philadelphia), on April 10, 1971, DeFrancesco was the son of another Philly-area jazz organist, Papa John DeFrancesco, and the grandson of multi-instrumentalist Joe DeFrancesco, who worked with the Dorsey Brothers. He began playing piano at age four and quickly switched to his father's instrument, preferring the sound of the Hammond B-3 over the modern synthesizers that had become the dominant alternative to piano. He began sitting in at his father's club gigs around age six; by age ten, he was performing paying gigs on the weekends and sitting in with artists like Jack McDuff and Groove Holmes.
DeFrancesco continued to study through high school, drawing from Philadelphia's rich jazz organ heritage and the numerous veteran players who still found work on the city's club scene. At 16, he was the first recipient of the Philadelphia Jazz Society's McCoy Tyner Scholarship, and was also a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. He met Miles Davis on a local television show and impressed the trumpeter enough that DeFrancesco was invited on tour following his high-school graduation in 1988.
After appearing on the well-received Live Around the World and Amandla albums, DeFrancesco scored a solo deal with Columbia and released his debut as a leader, All of Me, in 1989. Four more Columbia albums followed (Where Were You?, Part III, Reboppin', Live at the Five Spot), one per year, and DeFrancesco's reputation grew steadily, helped by the fact that as a virtuosic yet vintage-style organist, he was something of an anomaly on the early-'90s jazz scene. His arrival presaged -- and, in fact, helped kick-start -- a renewal of interest in organ jazz of all stripes, and he remained one of the most versatile and advanced of the new breed of players; inspired by Davis, he even picked up the trumpet as a second instrument.
After parting ways with Columbia, DeFrancesco recorded sets for Muse and Big Mo, and began working extensively with guitarist John McLaughlin. His appearance on 1994's After the Rain and his subsequent international tour with McLaughlin brought him to a whole new audience. He spent the next few years working mostly as a sideman, however, and returned to the studio under his own name in 1998, recording All or Nothing at All for Big Mo; he also appeared with his father on All in the Family for High Note. The following year brought The Champ, a tribute to Jimmy Smith (also on High Note), and a new record deal with Concord Jazz, which kicked off with the Mafia movie soundtrack tribute Goodfellas.
DeFrancesco finally teamed up with longtime hero Jimmy Smith for 2000's Incredible!, and issued the Concord follow-up Singin' and Swingin' in 2001, which spotlighted his easygoing vocals. In the meantime, he also continued to record sessions for High Note, including the sequel The Champ: Round 2 (2000) and another tribute to one of his influences, The Philadelphia Connection: A Tribute to Don Patterson (2002). Always a busy and prolific artist, DeFrancesco released five albums in the next five years: 2003's Falling in Love Again, which featured jazz singer Joe Doggs; 2004's Plays Sinatra His Way; 2005's Legacy, again with Jimmy Smith; and 2006's Organic Vibes. Live: The Authorized Bootleg followed in 2007 from Concord Records, while Joey D! appeared in 2008.
---Steve Huey, All Music Guide |
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