Private Passions 20.xi.11: Joey DeFrancesco

[Guest]

Michael Berkeley's guest today is the American virtuoso jazz organist, trumpeter and singer Joey DeFrancesco, who is in London for the annual Jazz Festival.

Still available via Listen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017cgdc

I stumbled across it by accident: no great insights or revelations, but a good choice of music. I thought his jazz selections were more imaginative than his classical ones, though.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

indeed .... not sure however that i look forward to his version of the bergamasque suite on a hammond b3! ....

[Ian Thumwood]

Calum

Joey DeFrancesco is an amzingly profilic musician. Several years ago I introduced my Dad to his music and he now has quite a number of his CD's. There is a wide variety too choose from but this one, which can be picked up cheaply, is terrific and features him with the great Bobby Hutcherson. If you don't have anything by this musician, I would suggest that this is the CD to go for:-

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Organic-Vibes-Joey-DeFrancesco/dp/B000E1NX1I/ref=sr_1_9?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1321913012&sr=1-9

This record with a German big band is pretty good too, albeit a lot more conversative . If you love the more modern / Basie-ish approach to big band music, this is very effective and a nice antedote to the kind of Jimmy Smith / oliver Nelson collaborations with the exception of the version of "Tennessee Waltz" which is very much in this vein!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Once-Lifetime-Joey-DeFrancesco/dp/B000GYHY7M/ref=sr_1_22?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1321913256&sr=1-22

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i havew several albums of his ian, love the mafia type tunes one ...