Jimmy Smith (musician)
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James Oscar Smith was an American jazz musician who helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music.
Smith in 1958
Smith at the London Jazz Cafe Mar 2004 (final UK gig)
Smith at the Liri Blues Festival in 2004
Smith in 2005
Joey DeFrancesco
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Joey DeFrancesco was an American jazz organist, trumpeter, saxophonist, and occasional singer. He released more than 30 albums under his own name and recorded extensively as a sideman with such leadin
Jimmy Smith (musician)
…He also recorded with Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson (he can be heard on the title track of the Bad album), Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Joey DeFrancesco. His last album, Dot Com Blues (Blue Thumb/Verve, 2000), was recorded with B. B. King, Dr. John, and Etta James. Smith and his wife moved to Scottsdale…
DeFrancesco playing the organ at the Newport Jazz Festival, 2014
DeFrancesco playing at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, 2010
Joey DeFrancesco playing tenor saxophone at the 2022 NAMM Show