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| Jack Jones Releases ARTWORK Featuring Joey DeFrancesco Cavalry Productions announces the release of Jack Jones' latest album, ARTWORK, featuring Joey DeFrancesco. Long regarded as the singer's-singer, the two-time Grammy award winner entered United Recording Studios in Los Angeles, CA with the A-team of jazz players in 2022, just prior to the untimely passing of Joey DeFrancesco (August 25, 2022). ARTWORK will be released on July 14tth spotlighting the initial singles, "Here's to Life, " "One Day" and "Empty Chairs" on Cavalry Productions/BFE Entertainment and available worldwide at all major music outlets. John Clayton arranged and conducted the 53-piece orchestra. Jack Jones, Joey DeFrancesco and John Clayton are Co-Producers with Tom Scott serving as Associate Producer. Jazz legends Tamir Hendelman, Jeff Hamilton and Graham Dechter all made significant contributions to ARTWORK. Paul Lowden, Cavalry Productions Chief and Executive Producer, states, "We are privileged to have been involved with Jack and Joey in producing what would be, unbeknownst to all of us, his last masterwork. Joey defined the B3 for all time and the paring of he and Jack jibed amazingly well with a soul and spirit that's electric. Their blended grooves live and breathe throughout this album. In my mind, ARTWORK is theirmasterwork." In his album notes, noted jazz critic Will Friedwald of The Wall Street Journal and Vanity Fair writes, "there's a lot to be said about Jack Jones, but one thing that you can't say about this legendary artist is that he is under-recorded. On the contrary, Mr. Jones is the creator of one of the largest and most rewarding catalogs of any living artist - right up there with his buddy and mentor, Tony Bennett. More than most singers, Jack Jones knows how to make a terrific album. His voice records particularly well, and he is a master of the craft of channeling his personality and his energy through the audio-only medium of recording, a skill that is rapidly becoming a lost art (without resorting to studio trickery)." This current set, ARTWORK, is a collaboration with two exceptional artists of a later vintage, starting with Joey DeFrancesco, a giant of a musician, " Friedwald continues, "best known as one of the great masters of B3 Hammond organ, Mr. D also played trumpet (open bell on "Not While I'm Around" and harmon-muted a la Miles Davis on "Here's to Life") and tenor saxophone besides. The other is the remarkable composer, arranger, conductor and bassist John Clayton, who expertly directs a full orchestra here: brass, reeds, woodwinds, rhythm (with the terrific drummer Jeff Hamilton and pianist Tamir Hendelman), and a full string section. But, considering that the Hammond B3 has all the power, color, and shading of a big band unto itself, the total effect is almost like Jack is singing with two different orchestras at the same time." Friedwald concludes stating, "who would have thought that after all these years, all these dozens of albums and hundreds if not thousands of songs, that Jones, one of the great artists of our time, still has something so powerful and so inspiring, so intimate and so vulnerable, so swinging and so dramatic - and so utterly moving - to say to us?" About Jack Jones By many measures, Jack Jones was the most popular crooner to emerge between the heyday of Elvis Presley and the rise of the Beatles. In the span of two years, he snagged two Grammys for Pop Male Performance - "Lollipops and Roses" in 1962 and "Wives and Loves" in 1964 - which was enough to lay a foundation for a career that lasted well into the 21st century. He was a fixture on the Adult Contemporary charts, racking up the number one hits "The Race Is On, " "The Impossible Dream (The Quest, )" and "Lady" between 1965 and 1967 - he continued to perform in Las Vegas and on the road, making the occasional foray into pop culture, like when he sang "The Love Boat Theme" in 1980. Jack Jones is a two-time Grammy winner and five time Grammy nominee and long-regarded as of the greatest singers of all time. A true Singers' Singer and luminary. Jack performs around the globe to sold-out audiences in venues ranging from Jazz clubs to the London Palladium. Jack Jones is the very definition of a complete and total entertainer. The New York Times raves, "he is arguably the most technically accomplished male pop singer… there is only one Jack Jones." About Joey DeFrancesco Multi-instrumentalist and singer, Joey DeFrancesco is regarded as one of the greatest Hammond B-3 organ players and multi-instrumentalists of all time. The prodigy began playing piano at age four and by six, joined his father, jazz organist "Papa" John DeFrancesco, on hometown Philadelphia gigs and by ten he was a professional sitting in with the likes of Hank Mobley and Philly Joe Jones. Joey was the first recipient of the Philadelphia Jazz Society's McCoy Tyner Scholarship, was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition and signed exclusively with Columbia Records at just sixteen years old! It was around this time that he met Miles Davis on a local television show and upon high school graduation, Davis invited him on tour. As one of the youngest musicians to tour with Miles Davis, he took up – and mastered – the trumpet. The four-time Grammy nominee and Jazz Times award winner is also an inductee of the Hammond Organ Hall of Fame. He hosted SiriusXM Radio's Real Jazz program, "Organized" and completed his work on ARTWORK, just prior to his untimely passing on August 25, 2022. Cavalry Productions is a jazz-based record label and production company, a division of Porchlight Entertainment, headed by Paul Lowden and Chris Lowden, committed to the pursuit of keeping jazz in the forefront of American music. Cavalry Productions is headquartered at 6611 S. Las Vegas Blvd, #160 Las Vegas, NV 89119. In addition, the Lowden's own Vic's Las Vegas, the west coast's hottest live jazz club located at 355 Promenade Place, Las Vegas, NV 89106. Track Listing: Fever Hello At Last If Love is Overrated Not While I'm Around She's Funny That Way This Masquerade If You Go Away Empty Chairs Lush Life Free Again Is That All There Is Here's to Life This is All I Ask One Day write your comments about the article :: © 2023 Jazz News :: home page |