King Charles was told his mother was dying in a frantic phone call before “everything was silent”.
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Ray Charles, Van Morrison and Bette Midler was 51 years old.“The love of my life is now in peace with the angels,” wrote Gloria on Instagram on Friday (August 26). “Right now I have very few words.
Thank you for the outpouring of love and support coming in from everywhere. Joey loved you all.”A cause of death was not provided.A post shared by Gloria DeFrancesco (@gloria.defrancesco)DeFrancesco played trumpet, piano, saxophone and synths but, as Pitchfork points out, was best known for reviving the use of the Hammond B3 organ in the modern jazz scene.The musician’s career began taking off in the 1980s.
He would go on to release more than 30 recordings as a bandleader.He was born in 1971 in a town outside of Philadelphia. His father is the acclaimed organist “Papa” John DeFrancesco, who brought Joey a B3 organ when he was 4 years old.The prodigious talent was performing in the Settlement Jazz Ensemble at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia by his teenage years, and at 17 he was asked to tour with Miles Davis.He released his first album ‘All Of Me’ in 1989 and went on to release dozens more before his final album, ‘More Music’, in 2021.Five of his albums have received Grammy nominations including his 2019 LP, ‘In The Key Of The Universe’, which features some songs written by Pharoah Sanders and Billy Hart.In 2018 DeFrancesco worked Van Morrison for a collection of originals and standards called ‘You’re Driving Me Crazy’.Good bye to my brother Joey deFrancesco.
We shared some of the greatest concerts of my life . We’ll miss you!!! pic.twitter.com/EPImvI5GB8— John Mclaughlin (@jmcl_gtr) August 26, 2022Tributes have followed for the late musician including from jazz fusion pioneer John Mclaughlin who said: “Good bye to
.King Charles was told his mother was dying in a frantic phone call before “everything was silent”.
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which is one month away from running amok on the streaming giant. It the latest poster, Winifred, Sarah and Mary Sanderson have a message for all the fans.
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long been confirmed for the sequel, some stars from the 1993 original movie will not make a return.“Hocus Pocus 2” director Anne Fletcher recently divulged to Entertainment Weekly that Vinessa Shaw and Omri Katz, who played teens Allison and Max, will not be reprising their roles in the new film.Thora Birch — who played 8-year-old Dani in the original comedy — is also not coming back. Apart from the witches, “Pan’s Labyrinth” star Doug Jones is the only actor returning from the first movie, reprising his role of Billy Butcherson, Winifred’s ex-boyfriend.Fletcher explained that some of the original cast members are not coming back because producers found it “difficult” to incorporate them.“We wanted to weave in all of the people that the fans loved, and when you sat back with all the ingredients and story, you’re like, how do we make this work?” she said.