DeFrancesco died on Thursday, Aug. 25. He was 51. His wife and manager, Gloria DeFrancesco, broke the news on social media. She did not provide a cause of death. "The love of my life is now in peace ...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm TV critic David Bianculli. Reference books give the birth date of the great jazz organist Jimmy Smith as December 8, 1925, 100 years ago. More recent sources cite 1928 as ...
AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of new streaming jazz channels today with “Organ Jazz," an entire channel devoted to the incomparable sound of the Hammond B3 Organ. The channel ...
Hammond B3 organ-driven combos have been a staple of hard bop and soul jazz since Bill Doggett's "Honky Tonk (featuring guitarist Billy Butler's catchy riffing) hit the charts 50 years ago. The sound ...
LOS ANGELES -- Organist Jimmy Smith, who helped change the sound of jazz by almost single-handedly introducing the electric riffs of the Hammond B-3 organ, has died at age 79 at his home in Scottsdale ...
Jimmy Smith, the man almost universally regarded as the first and greatest electric organ player in jazz, died Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. Before Smith, the organ had a ...
Jazz Times once hailed Joey DeFrancesco as "the best B3 player on the planet." For obvious reasons. DeFrancesco died Thursday. He was 51. His label Mack Avenue confirmed the news on its website and ...
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