With a title like Organic Vibes you make it immediately clear as a Hammond organist that you don't like synthesizers. The fact that Joey DeFrancesco has an old-fashioned taste has already been shown in Falling In Love Again with singer Joe Doggs, forming the ideal smoky nightclub act. After Legacy, his collaboration with his mentor and great hero Jimmy Smith, DeFrancesco continues where he left off
… on Organic Vibes: with bebop and soul jazz, this time with the help of vibraphone legend Bobby Hutcherson and tenor saxophonist George Coleman. He opens with a splash with the raging bebop of the dynamic The Tackle. On the classic Little B's Poem written by Hutcherson, DeFrancesco gives a demonstration of his speed on the keyboard. Even when the pace is slower, shows DeFrancesco that he has taken over the top position in the organist classification after the demise of Jimmy Smith. (AD)more