Joey DeFrancesco + The People - Project Freedom

One of the true attractions of the B3, is that when it’s in the right hands, it can evoke sonic images of various parts of your childhood; baseball games, roller skating rinks, church and funky get togethers all rolling together. No one does it better than Joey DeFrancesco, and he takes you to Sunday Morning Revivals here with a team of Jason Brown/dr, Troy Roberts/ts-ss and Dan Wilson.

The team gets gospel bluesy with a humming Hammond and Roberts’ tenor on a bopping “Project Freedom” while Wilson hits the pulpit on “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” The tenor preaches it on “A Change is Gonna Come” while it’s time for Dodger Baseball on a splashy and hip“Karma. ” DeFrancesco doubles on trumpet, and sounds ultra relaxed on a Harmon-muted “One” while the team does some easy boplicity on “Better Than Yesterday” and get back to Bach on “Imagine (Prelude).” Fun, funky and finger licking good.