Joey DeFrancesco

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Joey DeFrancesco (2009 at Jazz im Palmengarten )
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
You're Driving Me Crazy (with Van Morrison )
  DE 10 05/04/2018 (4 weeks)
  AT 11 05/11/2018 (4 weeks)
  CH 41 05/06/2018 (3 weeks)
  UK 20th 05/10/2018 (1 week)
  US 76 05/12/2018 (1 week)

Joey DeFrancesco (born April 10, 1971 in Springfield , Pennsylvania ) is an American jazz organist .

Life

DeFrancesco is the son of pianist and organist Papa John DeFrancesco; his grandfather played for the Dorsey Brothers . He made his album debut at the age of 17 and played with Shirley Scott and Brother Jack McDuff (with whom he later recorded) as a teenager . A little later he toured with jazz greats like Miles Davis (tour 1987/8, recording Amandla 1989) and John McLaughlin . In 1989 he graduated from the Philadelphia High School of Creative and Performing Arts. In the same year his first album appeared as a leader. In the mid-1990s he worked a lot in a trio with John McLaughlin, later in a trio with Ximo Tebar .

He is considered to be one of the main people responsible for the Hammond B3 boom in the early 1990s. DeFrancesco can also be heard as a singer on some albums.

His work with Hammond organ legend Jimmy Smith ( Incredible , San Francisco Jazz Festival 1999) is also worth mentioning . At the end of 2019, his album In the Key of the Universe was nominated for the 2020 Grammy Awards .

Discographic notes

  • The Free Spirits Tokyo Live (Verve Records, 1994), with John McLaughlin, Dennis Chambers
  • Goodfellas ( Concord Jazz , 1999) with Frank Vignola
  • Incredible! (Concord Jazz, 2000) with Jimmy Smith
  • Singin 'And Swingin' (Concord Jazz, 2001)
  • Ballads And Blues (Concord Jazz, 2002)
  • The Philadelphia Connection: A Tribute to Don Patterson (HighNote, 2002)
  • Falling In Love Again (Concord Jazz, 2003)
  • Plays Sinatra His Way (HighNote, 2004)
  • Organic Vibes (Concord Records, 2006)
  • The Authorized Bootleg (Concord Records, 2006)
  • DeFrancesco Brothers (VectorDisc, 2011), with his brother Johnny and Glen Ferracone
  • You're Driving Me Crazy (Sony Legacy, 2018), with Van Morrison

literature

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT UK US
  2. ↑ 2020 Grammy Nominations Announced. JazzTimes , November 27, 2019, accessed November 27, 2019 .

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SURNAME DeFrancesco, Joey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz organist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Springfield , Pennsylvania , United States