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Washington’s expansive sound reverberates at Dakota

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 Dan Emerson58185

By Dan emerson “Please welcome the AMAZING Kamasi Washington.” The sold-out audience waiting for Washington’s late show at the Dakota on August 26 reacted with appropriate enthusiasm for the jazz world’s most buzzed-about new star. Since releasing his genre-spanning debut release “The Epic” in 2015, Washington has been on a meteoric rise, sometimes hailed […]

Joey DeFrancesco: 1971-2022

August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 Andrea Canter58496

“I’ve always been stretching the boundaries of the instrument since day one,” he told Philadelphia Weekly in 2019. “I have my influences, but nobody’s played the organ the way I play it.” Considered one of the prominent forces in the renaissance of organ jazz since his teens in the 1980s, Joey DeFrancesco died on […]

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Washington’s expansive sound reverberates at Dakota

Joey DeFrancesco: 1971-2022