Joey DeFrancesco - Joey Defrancesco

Joey DeFrancesco - Joey DefrancescoIt is tempting to play up the "Italian Connection" on Joey's newest record. With Joey's previous nod toward the Goodfellas it would easy to claim that Frank Sinatra is the natural next step. But the simple fact of the matter is that this is tribute of one master of American Music to another. Perhaps no other singer in history defined the American Popular Songbook as Frank Sinatra and it is only natural that Joey DeFrancesco ? so instrumental in

powerful album is a soulful

rhythmic metallic attack

Yet here the group further explores within genre

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whose unique sound blends trap & Caribbean influences

"I took more time to record the songs and play around with them

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while being able to deftly translate a personal perspective into a universal view

Karen Dalton’s In My Own Time is not just an album - it’s an emotional time capsule

"Blossom and the Void" dissolves the introductory tension as Bartels comes out lyrically swinging

The Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart was conducted by Mladen Gutesha (who had worked with ECM previously on trans-idiomatic projects with Keith Jarrett

for me it's an Ode to Horsenden Hill in West London where we used to gather of an evening with the compilation tapes we had made introducing each other to new songs which we found