Joey DeFrancesco

[kinuta]

On 17/12/2018 at 10:07 AM, Milestones said:

I think we should re-energize this thread.

I have actually done fairly little to follow Joey, other than his several appearances on John McLaughlin records. Oh, and there's the Yoshi's record with Pat Martino, which to these ears is about as good as guitar-organ-drums gets.  

I've recently been checking out Reboppin', which has a lot of good tracks, as well as the two-disc Christmas album.  

In short, he seems like someone I should look into more deeply.

 

 

Listened to Goodfellas yesterday. It's worth checking out if you haven't heard it.

The Yoshi's session is great.

[mr jazz]

He put out a 2 cd Christmas album a few years back. One is The Tradition, the other The Party. Well done.

[CJ Shearn]

When I went to the Jazz Standard show with Joey, Mark Whitfield and Lenny White, they were smokin.  Joey and I spoke about JOS after the gig, it was cool... he was very impressed I knew a bunch of obscure (relatively) tunes like "Side Mouthin" to which I yelled out when he said "we're gonna play the blues".  He replied "that guy knows his stuff!!!"