Joey DeFrancesco has added the tenor saxophone to the growing list of instruments he performs on.
(Photo: Jim Hesterman)Jan 11, 2022 1:31 PM
Joey DeFrancesco remembers the exact moment when he got “bit by the bug.”
The year was 2018, and the organist was at Tempest Studios in Tempe, Arizona, working on what would…
Albert Ayler
Nov 16, 2021 11:23 AM
In a restaurant-bar in Greenwich Village, tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler was ruminating on the disparity between renown and income. In his case, anyway. Covers of his albums are prominent in the windows of more and more jazz record stores; references to him are increasingly frequent in jazz magazines, here and abroad; a growing number of players are trying to sound like him.
“I’m a new star, according to a magazine in England,” Ayler said, “and I don’t even have fare to England. Record royalties? I never see any. Oh, maybe I’ll get $50…
