Joey DeFrancesco

DIGIPACK EDITION

DeFrancesco has always been a singularly independent thinking artist. An artist who’s always been deeply connected to the full history of jazz. His innovative approach on this latest album, "The Key Of The Universe", highlights a devotional direction and who more fitting than a leading figure in the spiritual jazz era of the late 60s and early 70s than saxophonist, Pharoah Sanders. The inclusion of Billy Hart, who I might add played on Sanders’ album Karma in 1969 is effervescent.

PERSONNEL:

• JOEY DeFRANCESCO, organ, trumpet
• PHAROAH SANDERS, tenor sax, vocal
• TROY ROBERTS, alto, soprano & tenor sax
• SAMMY FIGUEROA, percussion
• BILLY HART, drums

TRACKS:

• 01. Inner Being
• 02. Vibrations in Blue
• 03. Awake and Blissed
• 04. It Swung Wide Open
• 05. In the Key of the Universe
• 06. The Creator Has a Master Plan
• 07. And So It Is
• 08. Soul Perspective
• 09. A Path Through the Noise
• 10. Easier to Be