You're Driving Me Crazy
| Van Morrison
You're Driving Me Crazy
You're Driving Me Crazy is the 39th studio album by Irish musician Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco.-Wikipedia
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Pirchfork
2018. On his third album in seven months, Morrison teams up with jazz musician Joey DeFrancesco for a collection of originals and standards that captures the joy of making music.
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The New York Times
2018. Van Morrison’s new album is a collaboration with the gifted Hammond B-3 player Joey DeFrancesco.
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Spill Magazine
The album is a good new and bad news kind of situation. Morrison has never sounded better, but not all the songs fit his voice. The back-up band is stellar, especially DeFrancesco, who adds some of the finest Hammond organ playing I have heard in the last decade.
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American Songwriter
2018. . . . You’re Driving Me Crazy is not just Van’s 39th studio album (Willie’s got him substantially beat at 73) but his third batch of freshly recorded material in about six months.
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All About Jazz
2018. On his past several recordings, Morrison has revisited his catalog, recasting some of his older songs in new frames and You're Driving Me Crazy proves no exception.
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All Music
2018. Following the formula of 2017's Roll with the Punches and Versatile -- each offered jazz, blues and R&B standards and redone originals -- this set offers eight tracks from Morrison's catalog and seven standards. it stands on its own, however, as a collaborative encounter with jazz organist and trumpeter Joey DeFrancesco's hip quartet.
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DownBeat Reviews
2018. DeFrancesco, a well-articulated improviser, proves a suitable foil for Morrison’s heartfelt vocals, noteworthy here for their humanity and warmth.
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Analog Planet
2018. "You're Driving Me Crazy" with Joey DeFrancesco is Van's best in quite some time.
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Relix
2018. . . . an ambitious collaboration with jazz organist and trumpeter Joey DeFrancesco, who has played with everyone from Miles Davis to Larry Coryell, and lends a vibrantly dexterous swing to the proceedings.
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Glide Magazine
2018. Van Morrison has rarely, if ever, sounded so good-natured as he does on his collaboration with Joey DeFrancesco.
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Pop Matters
2018. The best music on You're Driving Me Crazy can be found when the musicians groove together rather than challenging each other to take it the next level.
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Jazz Weekly
2018. Morrison sings with renewed inspiration as well in this setting, as if he’s been waiting for this opportunity to jam with some buddies like he’s in some Dublin pub. The song selection has a spontaneous feel to it as well, mixing up Morrison pieces with swinging juke joint jumpers. This is the surprise of the year, and all I can respond with is “MORE!”
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Elmore Music
2018. This collaboration between Morrison and jazz organ icon Joey DeFrancesco and his band has that bristling energy that would elicit bubbling enthusiasm from any listener, even the moody Belfast Cowboy.
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WRTI
2018. On You’re Driving Me Crazy, Van Morrison teams up with Philadelphia native son, organist and trumpeter Joey DeFrancesco. The result: a jazz album that swings hard, and true.
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Jazzwise Magazine
2018. Iconic Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison makes a dramatic return with a heavily jazz-influenced new album, You're Driving Me Crazy, which sees him join forces with renowned virtuoso Hammond-organist (and trumpeter) Joey DeFrancesco.
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Legacy-Club.DE
2018. On YOU'RE drving ME CRAZY some great blues and jazz standards and -Klassiker situated next versions . . . and some new Interpretations of songs from the repertoire of the legendary Irish singer and songwriter, including "Have I Told You Lately", "The Way Young Lovers Do" and "Magic Time".
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Off the Tracks
2018. A winning combo. It’d be good to hear a kick-ass live album from this combo. And some more studio albums, including – please – more new songs from Sir Van.
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Jazz Music Arhcives
Nice little album with some great vibes and vocals but perhaps some new material might have helped but still even with that moan it is quite a nice little groover to have on.
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The Arts Desk
2018. It’s good, but not quite as sizzling as it would be late at night, with an appreciative audience, and even a few dancers on the floor to fuel the blaze that is sadly kept under the lid on this album.
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Shepherd Express
2018. On You’re Driving Me Crazy, he shares credit with Grammy-nominated jazz artist Joey DeFrancesco, whose Hammond organ sets the pace for the funky ’50s lounge arrangements of standards and originals.
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KCBX FM Central Coast Public Radio
2018. It's the wonder of encore career wonders: Morrison actually sounds lethal working with DeFrancesco's hard-swinging group.
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The Heights
2018. Collectively, this album doesn’t present Morrison’s usual sound, but it works. It’s a great collaboration between two phenomenal musicians, in which Morrison experiments with a pure genre that he has definitely has dabbled in, but hasn’t explicitly explored in its purest sense.
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Musica Kaleidoskopea
2018. Morrison’s newest release delves even deeper into the genre, pairing the 1960s legend with jazz organist, composer, and bandleader Joey DeFrancesco.
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The Vindicator
2018. This time he’s teamed with Joey DeFrancesco in a supremely relaxed, jazzy workout notable for its easy, almost effortless swing
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National Public Radio
2018. Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco make a lethal addition to an old canon.
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Otago Daily times
2018. While the 15 cuts have a breezy, improvisatory feel, it's anything but tossed off.
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UK Vibe
2018. This rates alongside his best of recent years and is firmly in the soul-jazz bag, which is ideally suited to the multi-instrumental talents of both Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco, Van Morrison expertly walking the tightrope of rhythm and blues meets jazz.
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Patrick Maginty
2018. All the ensemble obviously enjoyed making the record and their enthusiasm is infectious. I think it will be more than just jazz fans who enjoy this record. A big hand for the band !
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