Steve Wilkerson Meets Joey DeFrancesco - It's a Blues Sorta Thing

Various Artists - Blues | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 26, 1999)
• Original Release Date: January 16, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B00004SDH4
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #528,204 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Chancellor

2. Red Top

3. Misty

4. It's You Or No One

5. Everyday I Have the Blues

6. The Work Song

7. It's a Blues Sorta Thing

8. Georgia On My Mind

9. Panini Intro

10. Panini

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Swinging funky blues and sensitive gorgeous ballads!, April 10, 2000

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This review is from: Steve Wilkerson Meets Joey DeFrancesco - It's a Blues Sorta Thing (Audio CD)

Steve Wilkerson & Joey DeFrancesco are a match made in heaven - from the same school of unending groove and technically brilliant bop, these two take swing to a new level. Assisted by the lyrical intensity of Ron Eschete on guitar and James Gadson's magic on drums as well as his one stunning vocal(Everyday I Have the Blues) makes this one of the top jazz releases of the year. The opener, an original by Steve is fast and very avante garde - built around Coltrane's Impressions. Then the band slows down to the funky Red Top brilliantly orchestrated by Sandy Megas's tenor/bari arrangements. Their renditions of Georgia and Misty make the songs sound brand new again and look out for the title track - It's a Blues Sorta Thing - a groovin jazz waltz that you can't sit still to. The whole album is just plain fun! I have heard this band live twice now and can't wait for them to come back to town!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best damned tenor player on the planet!!..., December 3, 2002

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Bill (New York State) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Steve Wilkerson Meets Joey DeFrancesco - It's a Blues Sorta Thing (Audio CD)

I was given this CD as a gift - and what a gift! Why isn't this Wilkerson being recorded by Verve or Blue Note or Warner Brothers? There's no one out there like him! Swings his [butt] off!!... De Francesco is his perfect alter ego - incredible timing - great stuff - when is their next one coming out! They ought to be at every major jazz festival! I love it - want more!!... Who is that [person] who said this isn't blues - there are at least four blues on here but he misses the point - the whole album is blues oriented - pull your head out! Just dig it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Its a Mind Blowin Thing, February 14, 2002

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D. Bassett (Swindon, Wiltshire England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Steve Wilkerson Meets Joey DeFrancesco - It's a Blues Sorta Thing (Audio CD)

Think Jimmy Smith-Stanley Turrentine, Groove Holmes-Houston Persson, and Jimmy McGriff-Jerome Richardson (A Bag full of Blues). This whole album just stomps. Joey plays organ like
I always wanted too; flowing bass riffs, inventive right hand solos with just a hint of the Master ( there's a cheeky nod to JS's solo from All Day Long). If you love the Hammond don't even
think of not buying this.