Daily News | Joey DeFrancesco, soulful keyboard prodigy and five-time Grammy-nominated jazz organist, has died at 51
Mr. DeFrancesco spent part of his senior year in high school
DL Media Music, said: “His performances were heartfelt, exuberant, and soulful. Joey was transcended by his instruments.”a performance like this: “Spanning a smile as wide as the Brooklyn Bridge, Joey settled himself then proceeded to whip up enough steam in that Hammond B-3 to cause the entire overhead lighting and sound system to short out.”
He won the Philadelphia Jazz Society’s McCoy Tyner Scholarship when he was 16 and placed fourth in the 1987 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. “I really love the organ,” he told the Daily News in 1989. “I don’t like to say it’s my main ax, but it really is.” He told the Daily News in 1989 that his parents continually had to make him stop practicing and that he first encountered the organ when his father brought one home after a tour. “The next day, he came home from work and found me playing the blues on it,” Mr. DeFrancesco said.
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