Joey Defrancesco Trio at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society

Master organist, Joey DeFrancesco was raised in Philadelphia where the foundation of his musical roots in jazz, blues and other musical art forms were born. The four-time Grammy Award-nominee, with more than 30 recordings as a leader, has received countless Jazz Journalist Association awards, inducted into the inaugural Hammond Organ Hall of Fame in 2014 and 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. His new album, More Music, is “more” in every conceivable way offering up ten new originals, and the master organist, who has long supplemented his keyboard virtuosity with his skilled trumpet playing, brings out his full arsenal: organ, keyboard, piano, trumpet and, for the first time on record, tenor saxophone!...

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Master organist, Joey DeFrancesco was raised in Philadelphia where the foundation of his musical roots in jazz, blues and other musical art forms were born. The four-time Grammy Award-nominee, with more than 30 recordings as a leader, has received countless Jazz Journalist Association awards, inducted into the inaugural Hammond Organ Hall of Fame in 2014 and 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. His new album, More Music, is “more” in every conceivable way offering up ten new originals, and the master organist, who has long supplemented his keyboard virtuosity with his skilled trumpet playing, brings out his full arsenal: organ, keyboard, piano, trumpet and, for the first time on record, tenor saxophone!

Joey DeFrancesco – Organ/Keyboard, Trumpet, Saxophone, Vocals; Lucas Brown – Guitar/Keyboard; Anwar Marshall – Drums

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