To Whom I Love includes some of the last appearances on a recording by Joey DeFrancesco.
Produced by Sean Jones this is the debut recording as a leader of 22-year-old trumpeter Summer Camargo who hails from Florida and is a masters student at Julliard in New York. On a fast train already Camargo is in the Saturday Night Live house band on US TV. Personnel on the recording joining Camargo are reedist Veronica Leahy, trombonist Jeffery Miller, pianist Esteban Castro, bassist Raul Reyes Bueno, drummer Varun Das and percussionist Jamey Haddad on four tracks. To Whom I Love notably features some of the last appearances on a recording by Hammond B3 master Joey DeFrancesco on '80 Tears of Joy' and the raucous clapalong, 'Dance of the Merrymaker'. De Francesco sadly died a week after the album recording sessions that took place in 2022. Pure toned trad jazz (especially the very well caught treatment of 'On the Sunny Side of the Street') aiming at a classic tradition very much in the Wyntonian mould, Camargo's sound is so worth getting to know right now. Summer Camargo, photo: via YouTube
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