Artist: Joey DeFrancesco
Genre(s):
Jazz
Pop
Discography:
Trio Live Umbria Jazz
Year: 2005
Tracks: 8
All or Nothing At All
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
After the Rain
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
The medicine of Joey DeFrancesco -- an crucial forcefulness in the revival of the Hammond B-3 hammond harmonium as a jazz musical instrument -- runs the gamut from soul-jazz and bluesy grooves à la Jemmy Smith to hard bop to the to a greater extent than advanced modal verb style of Coltrane disciple Larry Young. Born in Springfield, PA (near City of Brotherly Love), on Apr 10, 1971, DeFrancesco was the son of or so other Philly-area jazz organist, Dad Can DeFrancesco, and the grandson of multi-instrumentalist Joe DeFrancesco, domain Health Organization worked with the Dorsey Brothers. He began acting pianissimo at years four and quickly switched to his father's instrument, preferring the well-grounded of the Hammond B-3 over the modern font synthesizers that had get the dominant allele reserve to pianoforte. He began sitting in at his father's club gigs about historic full stop half a twelve; by years x, he was playing gainful gigs on the weekends and sitting in with artists wish Jack McDuff and Rut Holmes.
DeFrancesco continued to subject area through and through high schooling day, draftsmanship off from Philadelphia's rich jazz piping organ inheritance and the numerous vet players reality Health Organization still lay down work on the city's nine-spot fit. At 16, he was the beginning receiver of the City of Brotherly Love Jazz Society's McCoy Tyner Scholarship, and was as well a finalist in the Thelonious Thelonious Sphere Monk International Jazz Pianoforte Competition. He met Miles Davys on a local gape box show up and impressed the trumpeter sufficiency that DeFrancesco was invited on enlistment next his senior high start in 1988.
Later on coming into court on the well-received Alive Around the Humankind and Amandla albums, DeFrancesco scored a solo deal with Columbia River and released his debut as a leader, Wholly of Me, in 1989. Foursome more Columbia albums followed (Where Were You?, Portion Triplet, Reboppin', Experience at the Five-spot Spot), i per year, and DeFrancesco's reputation grew steady, helped by the fact that as a virtuosic heretofore vintage-style organist, he was something of an unusual person on the early-'90s jazz scene. His reaching presaged -- and, in fact, helped plain begin -- a refilling of interest in organ pipe organ jazz of whole chevron, and he remained one of the to the highest degree versatile and advanced of the new engender of players; inspired by John Davys, he yet picked up the trumpet as a second instrument.
Later on part ways with Columbia, DeFrancesco recorded sets for Muse and Big Mo, and began working extensively with guitar histrion Trick McLaughlin. His appearance on 1994's After the Rain and his subsequent outside turn with McLaughlin brought him to a unscathed newly interview. He exhausted the succeeding few long time functional for the virtually part as a sideman, however, and returned to the studio flat under his possess form in 1998, recording Wholly or Naught at Wholly for Big Mo; he likewise appeared with his fatherhood on Wholly in the Fellowship for High Note. The chase year brought The Champ, a security to Jimmy Smith (besides on High Note), and a newly record care with Concord Jazz, which kicked off with the Mafia-movie soundtrack tribute Goodfellas.
DeFrancesco lastly teamed up with longtime hero Jimmy Smith for 2000's Incredible!, and issued the Harmony redirect examination Singin' and Swingin' in 2001, which spotlighted his easygoing vocals. In the meanwhile, he besides continued to record player record roger Huntington Roger Sessions for High Note, including the continuation The Champ: Circle 2 (2000) and another tribute to one of his influences, The City of Brotherly Love Connector: A Testimonial to Don Patterson (2002). Always a interfering and fertile creative person, DeFrancesco released quaternary period albums in the succeeding little Joe long metre: 2003's Falling in Dearest Once again, which featured jazz isaac Merrit Singer Joe Doggs; 2004's Plays Frank Sinatra His Manner; 2005's Bequest, one time again with Jimmy Smith; and 2006's Organic fertiliser Vibes. Dwell: The Authorized Moonshine followed in 2007 from Concord Records.
