Joey Defrancesco--"home for the Holidays" at Musical Instrument Museum

Celebrate the season with Joey DeFrancesco! The Hammond B-3 organ may just be the musical instrument best suited to Christmas and holiday-themed music. It produces a gloriously warm, rich, and full-bodied sound, the aural equivalent of a hug from Santa Claus. Place the instruments in the hands of a genuine virtuoso along with a carefully chosen selection of favorite holiday songs and Christmas carols and you have the recipe for an instant classic of a Christmas album and memorable live performance that stands the test of time.
A prodigious talent at an early age, jazz organist Joey DeFrancesco has today matured into living legend status. The two-time GRAMMY nominee and DownBeat Critic’s Poll and Reader’s poll winner year after year is recognized as a master of the jazz organ, trumpeter, and vocalist. With over thirty recordings as a leader and collaborations with many of the top names in modern jazz, DeFrancesco is one of the current jazz scene’s true trailblazers....

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Celebrate the season with Joey DeFrancesco! The Hammond B-3 organ may just be the musical instrument best suited to Christmas and holiday-themed music. It produces a gloriously warm, rich, and full-bodied sound, the aural equivalent of a hug from Santa Claus. Place the instruments in the hands of a genuine virtuoso along with a carefully chosen selection of favorite holiday songs and Christmas carols and you have the recipe for an instant classic of a Christmas album and memorable live performance that stands the test of time.
A prodigious talent at an early age, jazz organist Joey DeFrancesco has today matured into living legend status. The two-time GRAMMY nominee and DownBeat Critic’s Poll and Reader’s poll winner year after year is recognized as a master of the jazz organ, trumpeter, and vocalist. With over thirty recordings as a leader and collaborations with many of the top names in modern jazz, DeFrancesco is one of the current jazz scene’s true trailblazers.
“Ranging from sublime to positively pyrotechnic…the best B3 player on the planet.”—Jazz Times
“Mr. DeFrancesco is a deeply authoritative musician, a master of rhythmic pocket, and of the custom of stomping bass liens beneath chords and riffs.”—New York Times
“No organist today plays with the skill, harmonic depth, and authority of this phenomenon from Philly.”—Jazz Police

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