From jake92028@yahoo.com Fri Jan 09 17:11:14 2004
Subject:Sounds just like ..Joey DeFrancesco

With all our strivings for the cloned "best" Hammond/Leslie sound, I
thought this old text I found online would give an interesting and
not really out-dated perspective from 1994:
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From: dave.amels@sfnet.com
To: hammond@zk3.dec.com
Subject: VOCE PRESS RELEASE
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 94 10:59:06

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JOEY DEFRANCESCO PLAYS NEW MICRO B II ORGAN MODULE AND SPIN ROTATING
SPEAKER SIMULATOR IN TINY BASEMENT CLUB

Jazz organ great, Joey DeFrancesco, recently performed three days of
shows
(Aug. 18th - 20th) at a small venue in New York's Greenwich Village.
The
club, "Smalls", lives up to its name being that it is only the size
of an
ordinary home's basement. Show organizer's felt it would be
difficult or
impossible to fit a full size Hammond B-3 organ (Joey's trademark ax)
into
the small club so Voce Incorporated, the New Jersey based
manufacturer of
the popular MICRO B organ module, came to the rescue.

Joey wooed the audience of jazz and organ by playing only a single 61-
note
MIDI controller, a MICRO B II organ module, a SPIN rotating speaker
simulator, and an instrument amplifier. Many people in the audience
commented to Joey that they were fooled into thinking he was playing
a B-3
with a Leslie speaker. Joey was heard to comment, "This sh*t sounds
good."

This event marked the first time that Joey DeFrancesco has ever
played
professionally using only a single keyboard and without bass pedals.
This
event also marked the first time in recent years he's played such an
intimate venue.

On September 8th Joey used Voce's MICRO B II module and SPIN effect
for a
duet recording with his father, Papa John DeFrancesco. Papa John
played
the same organ Jimmy Smith used for his early 1960's recordings at
Rudy
Van Gelder's studio in Englewood New Jersey while Joey played the
MICRO B
II and SPIN combination. Joey reported to Voce that the MICRO B II /
SPIN
combination's recorded sound was indistinguishable from the "Jimmy
Smith"
Hammond and Leslie setup's recorded sound. Joey also reported that
legendary jazz engineer Rudy Van Gelder was also unable to tell the
difference between the two organ sounds. The results from this
unintended
test will be available on Papa John DeFrancesco's new CD
entitled "Comin'
Home" available later this year on Muse Records.

(END)

/Dave Amels
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I knew there was a reason I liked the old Spin. If it was cool
enough for Joey.. let's see, where is that little sucker? There's
one around here somewhere. Wj