Born in 1971 in Philadelphia, Joey DeFrancesco was still only five years old when he knew the tunes of Jimmy Smith by heart – of course he “had it easy,” relatively speaking, given that his father “Papa” John DeFrancesco is also an outstanding player of the Hammond organ.

At the age of ten he was already sitting in with Papa’s bands in the company of the likes of Hank Mobley and “Philly” Joe Jones, before producing his first album under his own name (All of Me) at the age of 17, leading to the “rebirth” of the Hammond B-3. The list of DeFrancesco’s collaborators over the past 25 years runs long, from Miles Davis to John McLaughlin to Joe Lovano, but it is enough to just highlight the two albums (Incredible! and Legacy) he made with his idol Jimmy Smith.

The career of tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders (born 1940 in Little Rock) was influenced by Charlie Parker and Sonny Rollins, but chiefly by John Coltrane, with whom he played on several albums having moved to New York in the mid-1960s. He also worked with Sun Ra, Don Cherry, Albert Ayler and Billy Higgins; indeed with almost everybody linked to the avant-garde stream of jazz. In the second half of the 1970s he moved towards more popular forms; initially the influence of jazz funk, and then world music and hip-hop was felt on his most successful recordings (Love Will Find a Way, Journey to the One, and Message from Home). We can expect to hear a similar kind of fusion emerge from this joint project with DeFrancesco.

COncert starts at 7.30 p.m.

Address: 1095 Budapest,  Komor Marcell utca 1.
Phone: 555-3300

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