The global jazz community has credited Joey DeFrancesco and his recordings from the late 1980s and early 1990s as the singular sensation for rekindling a love for the Hammond B-3 organ. At 16, he was the first recipient of the Philadelphia Jazz Society's McCoy Tyner Scholarship and a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. Then came Miles Davis, the first of many legendary associations on a resume that would someday include Philly Jo Jones & Hank Mobley (at 10 years of age), Grover Washington Jr. (at 14 years of age), Miles Davis (at 17 years of age) his first Columbia Records release (at 16 years of age), John McLaughlin, George Benson, Ray Charles, Jack McDuff and Jimmy Smith, among others. Today, at 35 years old; with over 20 solo release on Columbia and Concord records coupled with historic associations with legends of the jazz idiom, DeFrancesco's legacy is fully cemented in jazz history. Awards: Downbeat Magazine - Critic's Poll Winner 2003, 04, 05, 06 / Downbeat Magazine - Reader's Poll Winner 2005 & 2006 / JazzTimes Magazine Reader's Poll Winner 2005 & 2006 / 2003 Grammy Nominee - 46th Annual Grammy Awards
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for All Or Nothing At All from the album, Falling In Love Again / 2006 Jazz Journalist Award / -- CONTACT: Mike Florio ~
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