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 ...

He got people excited about jazz organ." Kocour compares him favorably to Jimmy Smith, who popularized the Hammond B-3 organ in the '60s, creating a link between the worlds of jazz and soul.

THE NEW RECORD Todd Caldwell’s latest project emerges from a shared love for the jazz organ trio. The resulting collaboration of Caldwell and New York guitarist and composer Chris Parker, the album ...

Joey DeFrancesco, who was widely credited with bringing the organ back into vogue in jazz circles in recent decades, died on Thursday. He was 51. His death was announced by his record company ...

Few are the folks who could cast a literal shadow over the iconic Hammond B-3 organ, nicknamed "the Beast" by many of the jazz musicians who have helmed the hefty 425-pound instrument.

Leading his new quartet Organ Express, veteran jazz guitarist Henry Johnson soulfully reprised Smith's barroom blues. Hammond B-3 organist Chris Foreman helped create an appropriate mood with a ...

It is now generally agreed when reviewing the history of jazz organ playing, there was the period prior to 1955, the pre-Jimmy Smith era, and for the five decades following 1955, the Jimmy Smith era.

Jazz Times once hailed Joey DeFrancesco as "the best B3 player on the planet." For obvious reasons. DeFrancesco died on Thursday, Aug. 25. He was 51. His wife and manager, Gloria DeFrancesco ...