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Joey DeFrancesco: Live at Keystone Korner

Read "Live at Keystone Korner" reviewed by Andrew Schinder

by Andrew Schinder
October 5, 2026

Joey DeFrancesco is one of the most tragic stories of 21st-century jazz. After the deaths of mid-twentieth-century organ greats Jimmy Smith and Larry Young, the Hammond B-3 became somewhat unfashionable until DeFrancesco's dynamic, virtuosic style helped reignite the jazz community's passion for the instrument. DeFrancesco was prolific and engaging and the perfect ambassador for the organ, until a ...

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In The Key Of The Universe

By Joey DeFrancesco

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Inner Being; Vibrations In Blue; Awake And Blissed; It Swung Wide Open; In The Key Of The Universe; The Creator Has A Master Plan; And So It Is; Soul Perspective; A Path Through The Noise; Easier To Be.

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Joey DeFrancesco: In The Key Of The Universe

Read "In The Key Of The Universe" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
March 14, 2019

Joey DeFrancesco has stretched himself regularly throughout the course of thirty-plus albums. Just since Project Freedom (Mack Avenue, 2017) he's collaborated very productively for two albums with the Irish soulman Van Morrison--You're Driving Me Crazy (Sony Legacy, 2018) and The Prophet Speaks (Caroline, 2018). And, on In The Key of the Universe, the organist/trumpeter reaffirms his ...

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Joey DeFrancesco: In The Key Of The Universe

Read "In The Key Of The Universe" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
February 10, 2019

This is an important, even historic album. It marks--unannounced--the return of a great figure of the free jazz era, Pharoah Sanders. Saxophonist Albert Ayler once famously declared, “Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost." Hammond organist Joey DeFrancesco has orchestrated Sanders' return from oblivion. Without it, the ...