During a latest three-night stint with chart-owning sax slinger David Sanborn at the premier jazz club for the west coast - Yoshi's in Oakland, California - jazz organ fantastic Joey DeFrancesco spent his appear verify with executive editor Stephen Fortner, who was later on treated to completely one with the most exciting, burning sets he's ever observed Sanborn play. Touring in service of Sanborn's latest album Only Every thing, the quartet was rounded out through the incomparable Gene Lake on drums, and Ricky Peterson over a Yamaha S-90 and Roland JV-80, actively playing everything but organ. (Do not miss Ricky's detailed lesson on actively playing Minneapolis-style funk keyboards in our March 2010 problem and this month at keyboardmag.com/lessons, with audio examples!)
Joey D. is playing a clonewheel organ, and for those people of you who consider that's like Wolfgang Puck cooking with TV dinners plus a microwave, just wait 'til you hear it. He's so excited about the seem on the new KeyB - which comes to us from a startup company in Italy - that he is gotten personally involved in evangelizing it inside the U.S.
