Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Presents: Joey DeFrancesco

Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 8pm
Sioux Falls Historic Orpheum Theater
$38.00 or $25.00
605-335-6101 or sfjb.org

With virtuosic technique, innate soulfulness, and an unending reservoir of creativity and blues-drenched melodies that have made him a peerless master of the jazz Hammond B-3 organ, Joey DeFrancesco is a phenomenon that burns red-hot on swinging blues tunes. Simply stated- when it comes to jazz organ- he's the best.

"I love Jimmy Smith; to this day he's the king. The Blue Note records he did in the late '50s are very innovative; he was doing things that Coltrane did five-six years later," DeFrancesco admits. "He's a great hard bop single-note player with impeccable technique."

You could appropriate DeFrancesco's description of Jimmy Smith to describe his style. He swings ferociously, executes spot-on single-note lines and imaginative bass lines underneath them, can dig deep into the pocket or float over time.

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