Joey DeFrancesco hammond
Jeff Parker guitar
George Fulda drums
Twice Grammy® nominated, Master of the Jazz Organ, Trumpeter & Vocalist, Joey DeFrancesco, along with trio members George Fludas & Jeff Parker offer a hard-driving performance that swings straight ahead.
A prodigious talent at an early age, Joey began taking a strong interest in the organ. By the time he was five, he was playing Jimmy Smith songs verbatim. As the years went on his interest and love for the organ and music grew stronger. At ten he began to play in a band in Philadelphia, featuring legendary players Hank Mobley and “Philly” Joe Jones. At sixteen he signed an exclusive recording contract with Columbia Records, releasing his first record “All Of Me” at seventeen.
This record was single handedly responsible for the great resurgence of the Hammond sound in popular music. Also in his seventeenth year, he was called on by the great Miles Davis to join his band, and toured Europe. It was at that time that Joey, inspired by Miles’s sound, picked up the trumpet & started playing.
Recognized as one of contemporary music’s most versatile and innovative electric guitarists, his music is characterized by ideas of angularity and logic, as well as an instantly recognizable tone on the instrument. He works in a variety of mediums, from Jazz to contemporary music, using ideas informed by innovations and trends in both popular and experimental music. He creates works that explore and exploit the contrary relationships between tradition and technology, improvisation and composition, and the familiar and the abstract.
