The passings of two Jazz legends of Philadelphia this past week August 2022
This past week hit the Philadelphia Jazz community hard with the passings of two Jazz legends. Guitarist, Composer Monette Sudler was a Jazz legend in Philadelphia being the guitarist she was. I have played with Monette a couple of times on my gigs and what a pleasure to have had such an artist with her calm steady creative artistry to play with me. Monette has been recognized not only in Philadelphia with many awards and accolades for being a pioneer woman of Jazz who was known for educating the young and giving back to community with seminars, workshops broadening the awareness of Jazz music.
Organist, trumpeter, saxophonist, phenom great Joey Defrancesco passed away suddenly this past Thursday morning. Joey was a child prodigy who I first heard when he was 15 years. He was already making a name as a Jazz prodigy and would go onto greater heights in his now short life playing with Miles Davis and a who’s who in the music world beyond the genre of Jazz music.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/arts/music/joey-defrancesco-dead.html?smid=url-share
We will miss them both
Links to their respective careers and passing are included. Also by clicking the images below links to the theirs and othe jazz passings this past week.
