Joey DeFrancesco, driving force on the Hammond organ

Joey DeFrancesco, driving force on the Hammond organ, dies at 51

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Joey DeFrancesco, who brought the richly enveloping sound of the Hammond B-3 organ roaring back into the jazz mainstream in the early 1990s

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reigning as its preeminent ace for more than 30 years, died on Thursday. He was 51.

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Gloria DeFrancesco, his wife and manager, announced his death on social media, but did not provide a cause.

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Few jazz artists in any era have ever dominated the musical language and popular image of an instrument the way DeFrancesco did with the organ

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He exhibited supreme technical command at the keyboard, reeling off ribbons of notes with his right hand.

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And he took full advantage of the sonic possibilities presented by an organ console, with its drawbars, switches

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pedal board; his organ could lurch abruptly from an ambient hum to a sanctified holler, or change timbres and textures in the middle of a phrase.

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