Posted on 08/28/2022 7:14:57 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Joey DeFrancesco was 16 years old when he signed an exclusive recording contract with Columbia Records. The following year he released his first record, titled All of Me. His performance on All of Me has been attributed as helping bring back the organ to jazz music during the 1980s. That same year, DeFrancesco joined Miles Davis and his band on a five-week concert tour in Europe. He followed up with playing keyboard on Davis’ album Amandla, which reached No. 1 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart in 1989
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51 is young, RIP.
RIP.
I am a big Jazz fan. And I was, truly, shocked to hear of Joey DeFrancesco’s death at age 51. I couldn’t help but think that he took the Covid “Death Shot!” Hard to believe.
I met him about 5 years ago when he was checking out an M3 (which he ultimately bought) at a friend’s house. He was a nice, low-key guy. Re the “clot shot” - maybe, but he was quite overweight.
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