Tears may well up for those with endearing memories of organ master Joey DeFrancesco’s live performances. DeFrancesco sounds so warm and convivial in his stage banter, and the music is compelling and superb throughout. It’s a shame that this is a posthumous release, made just weeks before his untimely passing at age 51 in August 2022. He just seemed so full of soul and musically alive! Fittingly, jazz legend Todd Barkan, owner of Baltimore’s Keystone Korner, booked this searing date, which is not only a lasting memory for DeFrancesco but perhaps one of his best albums: Live at the Keystone Korner.
In his late career, the ever-restless DeFrancesco had long taken up the trumpet and, more recently, the tenor saxophone. He led a versatile…

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