SCFB 265: Joey DeFrancesco - More Music

In this episode of SOMETHING came from Baltimore, I chat with Joey D  about his new recording, "More Music".    

There is a Youtube exclusive interview also on this site where he chats  about Questlove and Christian McBride...and we go down memory lane and  chat about Philly's Orlieb's Jazzhauz.   

Bio On Joey D.! 

Raised in Philadelphia, this is where the foundation of his musical  roots in Jazz, Blues and other musical art forms were born. To hear Joey  DeFrancesco today, his music embodies the traditional art form infused  with a distinct modern approach, just part of what makes his music  unmistakably his own.  

" He has dominated the instrument and the field as no one of his  generation has.” – Chicago Tribune  

“Mr. DeFrancesco is a deeply authoritative musician, a master of  rhythmic pocket, and of the custom of stomping bass lines beneath chords  and riffs.” - New York Times

Joey DeFrancesco's emergence in the 1980s marked the onset of a musical  renaissance. Organ jazz had all but gone into hibernation from the  mid-'70s to the mid-'80s until DeFrancesco reignited the flame with his  vintage Hammond organ and Leslie speaker cabinet. The son of "Papa" John  DeFrancesco, an organist himself, the younger DeFrancesco remembers  playing as early as four-years-old. Soon after, his father began  bringing him to gigs in Philadelphia, sitting in with legendary players  like Hank Mobley and Philly Joe Jones, who quickly recognized his talent  and enthusiasm. With a natural gift for music, DeFrancesco also swiftly  picked up on the trumpet after a touring stint with Miles Davis as one  of the two youngest players ever recruited for any of Davis' ensembles.

DeFrancesco has recorded and/or toured with his own groups as well as  numerous renowned artists that include Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Diana  Krall, Nancy Wilson, George Benson, James Moody, John Scofield, Bobby  Hutcherson, Jimmy Cobb, John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, David Sanborn  and many more. The four time Grammy® Award-nominee, with more than 30  recordings as a leader under his belt, has received countless Jazz  Journalist Association awards and other accolades worldwide, including  being inducted into the inaugural Hammond Organ Hall of Fame in 2014,  the Philadelphia Music Walk of Fame in 2016 as well as topping the  Critics Polls in DownBeat Magazine eleven times over the past fifteen  years and the Readers Polls every year since 2005. DeFrancesco also  hosts a weekly program on SiriusXM Radio's Real Jazz channel titled  "Organized."

More Music, due out September 24, via Mack Avenue Records, is “more” in  every conceivable way. It offers up ten new DeFrancesco originals,  brought to life by a scintillating new trio. And the master organist,  who has long supplemented his keyboard virtuoso with his skilled trumpet  playing, here brings out his full arsenal: organ, keyboard, piano,  trumpet, and, for the first time on record, tenor saxophone.

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