Joey DeFrancesco - Hammond B-3 organ, trumpet, keyboards Troy Roberts - tenor sax Michael Ode - drums "Joey DeFrancesco Plays Monk" Live at Dizzy's Club 10/15/ 2017 - 1st set
Well programmed list by Joey. Start the crowd off with the hits, the blues and "easy" stuff and then hit em with the weirder. Don't overwhelm the 1st year music students, dates of the musicians in the audience too early. spouses of the aficionados, or the old players with very inside tastes.
So sad... So early... RIP Joey, you have touched me and my music in ways I can't comprehend myself. I feel as if I have lost a good friend and a great teacher, although we never met, nor did I see you play live.
Rarely heard one of Monk beauties along with Ask Me Now , Ugly Beauty . The Trio sounds fantastic Joey’s opening motif sets the mood for this gorgeous waltz time ballad
Good lord. Joey's a monster. That left hand alone is incredible (love that B3 bass), but the syncopated loose solos over top while holding that down? Good lord.
Am I crazy or does Joey rely more or mostly on one hand to do the damage or make all that melodic noise on the keyboard? Seems like he's always favoring one hand and letting it do all the work.
You get used to it. The left hand is usually playing quarter notes. The good Hammond players can groove in any style but yeah it is usually just playing over that quarter note 4/4 base. Plus, when you get the feel for it, you get the dynamics and it kind of blasts over the bass line. The bass line is there, but it doesn't take over your thought process like executing some intricate 2 handed piano passage.
Just saw a post from Steve Winwood on Facebook mouning the loss of this Man!! Had never heard of him ! Sensational! Big Man, Big Sound!!! My Big Loss!! Will be checking him out Bigtime now!!!.. X
Aujourd'hui, depuis ce matin, j'écoute Joey de Francesco. Quelle générosité, quel engagement dans sa musique. Ça va de l'avant, ça fonce en flaques, en hurlements doux, en effrois joyeux, en blues qui ne s'arrêterait pas, mais qui se reprend et bataille, gronde, râle. ça tombe toujours là où il faut. Bon voyage, Mr Joey !
wow Troy Roberts ... long way since Perth Jazz Society ... well done wow .. listening frequently to "Soul Garbage'" album and fabulous Joey wow beautiful recording
Wow I didn’t know he died. The day i found out he passed is the day i found a video of him playing with one of my favorite saxophonist, Toy Robot… This is a great post, awesome musicians
Troy was the one in that slew of saxophonists that Bernie Saunders threw at us , who I heard the first time and said "yeah. that man's for sure got "it. " that is the shit".
every one of his songs has something unique and unheard before- like a good book that just gets better with age he plays his beautiful one of a kind poetry with each inventive note.
I just started to get into JD recently as I am interested in the Hammond tone wheel organs and Leslie speakers. Man could Mr. Defrancesco make these tools sing, RIP sir.
So fine playing here - soulful and listeing to each other, and in this sense for music like children's playing (think there is a song "All God's children got rythm"). Sad over the news of the loss of Joey De Francesco, yet thankful over the deep joy he leaves in his art. / Urban W (Stockholm, Sweden)
Andrew Janusson hace 4 meses 0:00 - Introductions 0:48 - In Walked Bud 9:55 - Blue Monk 23:45 - Joey speaks about Thelonious Monk 25:35 - Ugly Beauty 35:00 - Teo 50:11 - We See
After the death of Jimmy Smith, Joey DeFrancesco took over the Hammond. But which Hammond? Everyone discusses the B3 but Rudy Van Gelder said he had a C3 in his studio and that's what Jimmy Smith and Larry Young recorded on there for Blue Note records. Its a first for me hearing JD on piano and he was amazing. Someone said he played trumpet, too - a joke or reality?
... ein großer Verlust -- aber Klaus Wunderlich durfte auch nicht länger leben, und er spielte die Orgel wirklich mit allen Sinnen Händen und Beinen in höchster Perfektion - das schaffte oder wollte er wohl nicht !!
