Never Can Say Goodbye: The Music of Michael Jackson
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| Studio album by Joey DeFrancesco | ||||
| Released | September 14, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | June 5–6, 2010 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 59:24 | |||
| Label | HighNote | |||
| Producer | Glenn Ferracone, Joey DeFrancesco | |||
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Never Can Say Goodbye: The Music of Michael Jackson is an album by jazz organist Joey DeFrancesco, a tribute to deceased entertainer Michael Jackson. The album was released in 2010 on HighNote Records and was produced by DeFrancesco and Glenn Ferracone. It was nominated for the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
This album is one of several tribute albums released by DeFrancesco; in 2002 he paid tribute to fellow Philadelphian Don Patterson, plus Jimmy Smith in 1999,Frank Sinatra in 2004 and Horace Silver in 2009.
Along with DeFrancesco on various organs, and trumpet on "Beat It", the band consists of Paul Bollenback on guitars, Byron Landham on drums, Pat Bianchi on keyboards, and percussionist Carmen Intorre.
The album was nominated for the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album but lost to the Stanley Clarke album The Stanley Clarke Band. The other nominees were Now Is the Time by Jeff Lorber Fusion, To the One by John McLaughlin, and Backatown by Trombone Shorty.
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