David Sanborn Trio feat Joey DeFrancesco Live at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley | March 10th-13th, 2011
David Sanborn Trio
Featuring: Joey DeFrancesco
March 10-13, 2011
FROM: The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
2033 6th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98121
CONTACT: Rachael Millikan, 206-441-9729, [email protected]m
RE: Performance at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
COST: $35.00 (includes 4.50 processing fee)
The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley presents saxophone legend David Sanborn with his Trio Featuring Joey DeFrancesco on the Hammond B-3 organ. Band members are David Sanborn (saxophone), Joey DeFrancesco (Hammond B-3), Ricky Peterson (keys) and Glen Lake (drums). Set times on Thursday and Sunday 7:30 pm and Friday through Saturday 7:30pm and 9:30 pm. Doors open at 6:00pm Thursday and 5:30pm Friday through Sunday.
David Sanborn is both musician and artist, that rare breed of popular recording star as eager today as he was in his youth to continue pushing boundaries and to continue making music that challenges the mind as it rewards the heart and soul. David was awarded his second Grammy in 1986 for the album Double Vision and in the late 1980s hosted one of the most remarkable musical television programs of all time Night Music.
Renowned and revered the world over as one of the greatest saxophone players of all-time, David Sanborn is an artist whose music has inspired countless other musicians while creating a body of work that spans the genres of rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, pop and jazz. A naturally gifted performer, David has helped defined the saxophone’s modern sound while influencing a generation.
Joey DeFrancesco is an important force in the revival of the Hammond B-3 organ as a jazz instrument. DeFrancesco’s reputation grew steadily, helped by the fact that as a virtuosic yet vintage style organist, he was something of an anomaly on the early ’90s jazz scene. His arrival presaged and, in fact, helped kick-start a renewal of interest in organ jazz of all stripes, and he’s remained one of the most versatile and advanced of the new breed of players; inspired by Davis, he even picked up the trumpet as a second instrument.
Today DeFrancesco is regarded by organ aficionados as the baddest B-3 burner in the business (a claim supported by his five consecutive DownBeat Critics Poll awards for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006). And while Joey has never made any boastful claims about his own ranking among the organ elite, he has always respectfully deferred to his B-3 elders, the fact is, no organist today plays with the skill, harmonic depth, and authority of this phenomenon from Philly. With over 20 solo releases and historic associations with legends such as Miles Davis, Jimmy Smith, Bobby Hutcherson, Elvin Jones and John McLaughlin, DeFrancesco’s place in the idiom’s history is cemented.
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