JAZZ TIP VAN DE WEEK;
Joe DeFrancesco was net 17 Jaar oud, toen hij met zijn album “All Of Me” debuteerde. Het was 1989, dat hij begon zijn Virtuositeit en de ervaring van zijn vader Papa John DeFrancesco in de eigen Muziektaal om te zetten. De Man aan het orgel is intussen tot een Hammond B3 Icoon bevorderd, ontving belangrijke onderscheidingen van gewaardeerde Downbeat tijdschriften en toert internationaal. “Snapshot”, zijn actueel album, dat hij met de gewaardeerde Sideman PAUL BOLLENBACK en BYRON LANDHAM live opnam, geeft een momentopnamen weer, die enerzijds laat terug blikken anderzijds het creatieve Proces de vrije Loop laat en daarmee aan vele stellingen verrast.
Joey DeFrancesco has come a long way from “All of Me,” his recording debut as a leader made in 1989 as a fresh-faced 17-year-old. From the get-go, the Philadelphia native established his credentials with virtuoso technique and an innate soulfulness that he developed under the tutelage of his father, Papa John DeFrancesco, a B-3 burner in his own right. Combining monstrous chops with a flair for showmanship and an unquenchable urge to burn, DeFrancesco almost single-handedly put the B-3 back in the public eye. Today DeFrancesco is regarded by organ aficionados as the baddest B-3 burner in the business, a claim supported by his seven consecutive DownBeat Critics Polls. “Snapshot,” Joey’s latest featuring his Original Trio of PAUL BOLLENBACK and BYRON LANDHAM, manages to look both ahead and back – back to the trio’s roots which extend back 15 years – and ahead to musical triumphs to come. At the same time, the live recording is very much “of the moment” and captures a true snapshot of these great musicians, in the heat of the creative process and preserves it in the ones and zeros of this CD. Line up:
with Joey DeFrancesco, organ
Paul Bollenback, guitar
Byron Landham, drums
Tracklisting:
Eighty One • The End of a Love Affair • Ode to Angela • Songline • You Don’t Know Me • Fly Me to the Moon • Whichole
Also available from Joey DeFrancesco:
Joey D! HCD 7190 UPC 632375719029
Plays Sinatra His Way HCD 7105 UPC 632375710521