Joey DeFrancesco
Organ Solo on
JLJ Blues

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Joey DeFrancesco follows Larry Coryell with fourteen choruses on organ, completing the solo section. Taken at an up-tempo swing tempo of 214 BPM over the 12-bar blues in F, the improvisation moves with confident, driving energy. "JLJ Blues" closes Joey DeFrancesco's 2012 album Wonderful! Wonderful! with an extended blues blowout in F that gives both the organist and guitarist Larry Coryell room to stretch. Recorded for the album Wonderful! Wonderful! in 2012, the performance captures Joey DeFrancesco at 40 to 41 years old. The blues is the ultimate proving ground in jazz, and this closing performance demonstrates that DeFrancesco's command of the form is as deep as any organist in the instrument's history.

Joey DeFrancesco was 40 to 41 years old at the time.