Joey Defrancesco: One For Rudy

Joey DeFrancesco

One for Rudy

The whole trick of putting together a Hammond B-3 trio is not like creating a great pasta sauce. It's all a matter of what basic ingredients you put together, and then how you season and stir it up. On One For Rudy, Joey DeFrancesco creates a pomodoro of a disc with a mixture of his own Hammond and the tried and true flavors of his regular bandmates Steve Cotter and Ramon Banda. This swinging threesome references everybody from saxophonist Sonny Rollins ("Way Out West") and former boss Miles Davis ("I Don't Wanna Be Kissed") to Thelonious Monk ("Monk's Dream"). The musicians clearly delight in exploring the material, playing off one another and letting their envious chops off the leash. The Rudy of the title is, of course, the legendary Rudy Van Gelder, who engineered, mixed and mastered the disc.

Price: $23.98