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Joey DeFrancesco

Born: April 10, 1971

Joey DeFrancesco’s emergence in the 1980s marked the onset of a musical renaissance. Organ jazz had been a form of music that literally went into hibernation from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties largely because of the introduction of high-tech, light-weight keyboards. It was Joey, however, that ignited the flame once again with the sound of his vintage Hammond organ and Leslie tone cabinet.

He not only illuminated this once dormant music form but brought back the many proponents of jazz organ who had been shuffled by record producers and club owners to lesser roles within the music industry. Befriending and supporting those who preceded him, Joey became the new-age proponent of an instrument that had been pushed aside in favor of the growing technology. Considered a child prodigy, Joey remembers as far back as age four, playing jazz tunes modeled by his father, Papa John DeFrancesco and memorizing music from the many jazz albums in their home. Papa John, a jazz organist himself, took young Joey under his wing and nurtured his rapidly developing skills, bringing Joey along with him to gigs, Joey would sit-in with as many seasoned Philadelphia musicians who were around.

Live at Keystone Korner

By Joey DeFrancesco

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Awake and Blissed; Vibrations in Blue; Free; Lady G; In Times of Reflection; Inner Being; Roll With It; One More Blues

Storyboard (Vinyl Reissue)

By Didier Lockwood

Label: Culture Factory Usa
Released: 2026
Track listing: Side A: Thought of a First Spring Day; Back to Big Apple; En Quittant Kidonk; Mathilde. Side B: Tableau D'une Exposition; "Serie B"; Storyboard; Irremediablement; Spirits of the Forest.

Keyboard Special: Thelonious Monk, John Donegan, Tom Schuman and others

by David W. Daniels
November 3, 2026

End of the month keyboard special and the last week of Monktober! In addition to the keyboard players named in the title, we are featuring jazz music ranging from the vocal/piano stylings of Shirley Horn and Freddy Cole to the fusion jams of Weather Report and the Headhunters. Plenty of hard bop, soul jazz, post bop, ...

Jerry Z: Break Allegro

by Jack Bowers
October 28, 2026

Jerry Z, a worthy successor to such organ maestros as Joey DeFrancesco, Mel Rhyne, Jimmy Smith, Charles Earland, Jimmy McGriff and others too numerous to single out, shows on Break Allegro, only the second recording as leader of his own group, that he clearly deserves to be mentioned in such esteemed company. In musical ...

Joey DeFrancesco, Alexis Cole, Mark Isham, Stella Heath & Ken Lovern

by Joe Dimino
October 25, 2026

It's an honor to kick off the 981st Episode of Neon Jazz with Kansas City's own acclaimed organist Ken Lovern and his ambitious new project, Blind Boone! We open with “Boone Plays It Back," a musical journey that reaches beyond the album into the pages of a comic book and onto the stage in a production ...

Cory Weeds, Rahsaan Barber, David Champagne, Joey DeFrancesco and more

by Benjamin Boddie
October 22, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Cory Weeds, Rahsaan Barber, David Champagne, Kay Kostopoulos, Johannes Enders, Jon De Lucia, The Flying Horse Big Band, Janis Siegel, Joey DeFrancesco, Henry Threadgill/Vijay Iyer/Dafnis Prieto, Adonis Rose, Bob McChesney, Aaron Johnson and Gregory Chen, Aymee Nuviola, Donald Vega, Monty Alexander, Mike Catalano, Branford Marsalis Quartet with Dianne Reeves, Jerry ...

Sean Mason, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Ally Fiola, Ruta Di

by Cheryl K.
October 16, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--pianist Sean Mason; multi-instrumentalist Miguel Atwood--Ferguson; vocalist Ada Bird Wolfe; saxophonists Chad Smith and Ally Fiola; singer-songwriter/guitarist Ruta Di; and a cut from the posthumous recording by Hammond B-3 player Joey DeFrancesco. Playlist Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy “Longing" from The Mighty Warriors Live in ...

Six new jazz releases from Joey DeFrancesco, Jerry Z, Bill Carter, Flying Horse Big Band, Clarence Hines Jazz Orch, Springfield Jazz Orchestra

by George Graham
October 13, 2026

George Graham spotlights six new jazz releases in this extended show including Joey DeFrancesco, Jerry Z, Bill Carter, UCF Flying Horse Big Band, Clarence Hines Jazz Orchestra and the Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra. Playlist Joey DeFrancesco “Awake and Blessed" from Live at the Keystone Korner (Mack Avenue) 07:27 Joey DeFrancesco “Roll with It" from ...

Joey DeFrancesco: Live at Keystone Korner

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 ...