Title says it all - I was trawling round the Keyboard Magazine website when I just stumbled across this new interview (Feb 2005) with Jimmy Smith and Joey Defrancesco.

Enjoy.
http://www.keyboardmag.com/story.asp?sectioncode=29&storycode=134

Jerry
Amsterdam

Thanks a lot, Jeremy....an intimate look at
what makes "giants of jazz" tick. It's all about soul, commitment and constant innovation.

Russ

And the fact they started playing while still in the womb and practice 10 hours per day since has nothing to do with it, I guess...

I must say, I didn't realise that the two J's were so "close" to each other - but that certainly comes out of this interview.

I recently emailed Joey Defrancesco because I saw that he is offering "organ" lessons. Really. Of course these are not your average organ lessons and I guess they are more of an opportunity to spend some (expensive) time in a private one-on-one with the world's best organist. For anyone that's interested they are $200/hour.

Again in the wrong business...

Jerry
Amsterdam