Joey DeFrancesco – Project Freedom (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Joey DeFrancesco – Project Freedom (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:25 minutes | 741 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

Widely regarded as peerless on the Hammond B3 organ, Joey DeFrancesco releases his first ever quartet album, an impassioned tale of love and peace titled ‘Project Freedom’. Aside from the always prominent influence of his hometown of Philadelphia, the album is largely inspired by the differing viewpoints he has been exposed to from years of globetrotting and world touring. “I always thought that as touring musicians, we were spreading peace,” he explains. “No matter what happens in the world, we keep playing. In a lot of the so-called forbidden places too. When we’re there, through war and conflict, problems melt away through music.” Joey DeFrancesco & The People, a unit he’ll tour with in 2017, features guitarist Dan Wilson, saxophonist Troy Roberts, and drummer Jason Brown.
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Joey DeFrancesco – More Music (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Joey DeFrancesco - More Music (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

Joey DeFrancesco – More Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:25 minutes | 806 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

On More Music, master organist Joey DeFrancesco, who has long supplemented his keyboard virtuoso with his skilled trumpet playing, here brings out his full arsenal: organ, keyboard, piano, trumpet and, for the first time on record, tenor saxophone. More Music offers up ten new DeFrancesco originals, brought to life by a scintillating new trio with fellow Philadelphia organist and guitarist Lucas Brown and gifted drummer Michael Ode.
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Joey DeFrancesco – In the Key of the Universe (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Joey DeFrancesco – In the Key of the Universe (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:27 minutes | 732 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

Following up his 2018 collaboration with Van Morrison, You’re Driving Me Crazy, Joey DeFrancesco returns to his own work with his quartet on 2019’s spiritually inspired In the Key of the Universe. Produced by DeFrancesco and his wife, Gloria, the album finds the organist tapping into the hypnotic, deeply soulful metaphysical jazz that artists like Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk further explored in the wake of spiritual jazz pioneer John Coltrane’s death in 1967. In fact, DeFrancesco showcases Sanders here on three tracks. Joining them are several longtime associates including legendary drummer Billy Hart, saxophonist Troy Roberts, and percussionist Sammy Figueroa. At the core of the album is a heartfelt rendition of Sanders’ “The Creator Has a Master Plan” off his classic 1969 album Karma, on which drummer Hart also appeared. Sanders also adds his flowing, emotive saxophone to the expansive, minor-toned title track, and the dusky afterglow grooves of “And So It Is.” The latter also finds DeFrancesco playing trumpet, something he does several times on the album, evoking the burnished warmth and lyricism of mid-’60s Miles Davis. The tracks without Sanders are equally compelling, as DeFrancesco and his band dig into Middle Eastern-tinged blues on “Vibrations in Blue,” dive deep into the flowing bop modality of “Awake and Blissed,” and luxuriate in the sparkling soul balladry of “A Path Through the Noise.” While DeFrancesco has always played with an earthy soulfulness, on In the Key of the Universe he elevates that soulfulness to a divine musical plane. ~ Matt Collar
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Van Morrison And Joey DeFrancesco – You’re Driving Me Crazy (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Van Morrison And Joey DeFrancesco – You’re Driving Me Crazy (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:45 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Morrison’s 39th Studio Collection Showcases Electrifying Musical Collaborations, Fresh Interpretations of Blues/Jazz Standards and Deep Cuts from Van’s Songbook. Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Van Morrison’s new 39th studio album, You’re Driving Me Crazy, a musical collaboration with Hammond organ virtuoso and trumpet master Joey DeFrancesco, on Friday, April 27.

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Joey DeFrancesco – Trip Mode (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Joey DeFrancesco – Trip Mode (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:22 minutes | 675 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download  – Source: HDTracks | @ HighNote

It’s rare for one man to change the face of an instrument, and before he turns forty, but Joey DeFrancesco has done just that. DeFrancesco has been performing since he was a child, following in the footsteps of his jazz-playing father and grandfather. A seasoned musician by his teens, having already shared the stage with saxophonist Hank Mobley and drummer “Philly” Joe Jones, DeFrancesco was truly honored when, at 17, Miles Davis asked him to join his touring band. Today, DeFrancesco is a Grammy-nominated artist with over 50 recordings as a leader and numerous collaborations with the masters of modern jazz in his legacy, DeFrancesco deservingly takes his place alongside organ greats of the past like Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, and Larry Young.

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