GIG ALERT:
Joey DeFrancesco's Spring 2022 Tour
New Album More Music is
Available Now via Mack Avenue Records
Album Offers the Remedy for a
Challenging Year, Supplementing His Organ
Virtuosity with Trumpet, Piano, Keyboard,
Vocals and, for the First Time, Tenor Sax
Upcoming Joey DeFrancesco U.S. Tour Dates
January 12 / Yoshi's Oakland / Oakland, CA
January 13 / Kuumbwa Jazz Center / Santa Cruz, CA
January 14-15 / Parker Jazz Club / Austin, TX
January 17-24 / The Jazz Cruise 2022 / Fort Lauderdale, FL
February 24 / Irvine Barclay Theatre / Irvine, CA
February 25 / Outpost Performance Space / Albuquerque. NM
February 26 / Outpost Performance Space / Albuquerque. NM
February 27 / The Nash Jazz Club / Phoenix, AZ
March 10-13 / Jazz Alley / Seattle, WA
March 25 / JAS Cafe Aspen / Aspen, CO
March 26 / JAS Cafe Aspen / Aspen, CO
April 8-9 / Berks Jazz Festival / Reading, PA
May 20 / Middle C Jazz / Charlotte, NC
May 21 / Jefferson Center / Roanoke, VA
Check Out Joey DeFrancesco on the Cover of
“More Music,’ his 39th album as a leader, showcases both his versatility and his virtuosity as he offers masterful performances…”
— DownBeat
"The results reflect his unshakable passion for the verities of chicken-shack funk—a passion firmly established by his decades of fervent organ playing, channelling the Hammond B-3 giants of yore—but they stamp the greasy Philadelphia-born style as his own.”
— New Yorker
After a year of pandemic lockdown – with stages dark and nightclubs shuttered, friends and families kept at a social distance, and political and social tensions raging – the one thing we could all use right now is More Music. And who better to supply that demand than Joey DeFrancesco?
More Music, available now via Mack Avenue Records, is “more” in every conceivable way. It offers up ten new DeFrancesco originals, brought to life by a scintillating new trio. And the master organist, 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. He also steps to the microphone to croon Mario Romano’s yearning “And If You Please.”
“It’s time for more music,” DeFrancesco declares. “This situation has been difficult for so many people. It's definitely time to get back at it.”
