Joey DeFrancesco & City Rhythm Orchestra • 2004 [Full Concert]

01. Things Ain't What They Used To Be 0:01
02. The Cat 3:57
03. The Midnight Sun Will Never Set 7:11
04. Pennies From Heaven 11:10
05. Moanin' 11:48
06. Senor Blues 19:58
07. Billie's Bounce 29:38
08. One Mint Julep 37:48
09. Walk On The Wild Side 42:41
10.Whirly Bird 48:50
11.Peter Gunn 54:56

LIVE ON DELAWARE RIVER WATERFRONT
CITY RHYTHM ORCHESTRA "VIBRANT TONES" by David Franklin
feat: JOEY DE FRANCESCO: HAMMOND B3 ORGAN

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.Joey is a two time Grammy Nominee: In 2004 for his record ‘Falling In Love Again’, and, again, in 2010 for his release titled ‘Never Can Say Goodbye’. Winner of Down Beat Magazine’s Critic’s poll 2002-2008, 2012, 2013 as well as the magazines Reader’s Poll every year since 2005. In 2014 he was inducted into the inaugural Hammond Organ Hall of Fame.

Currently, Joey continues to tour with his own group and perform with all-star projects in major jazz clubs and festivals internationally. He is the weekly radio host of "Organized" on SiriusXM. New recordings and creative musical projects are all vital components in Joey DeFrancesco’s future as he continues to write, perform and stand at the fore front of the digital technology that replicates the classic Hammond organ/Leslie speaker sound.

With over thirty recordings as a leader and numerous collaborations with the masters of modern jazz in his legacy, Joey DeFrancesco deservingly takes his place with Fats Waller, Wild Bill Davis and Jimmy Smith in the lineage of Jazz Organ.