Limelight
EMILY FRANCIS TRIO
The prog jazz keyboardist taking her sound on a voyage into the Atomic age.
“WHEN
WE FIRST started out, it was a bit trial and error,” says keys player and bandleader Emily Francis. Inhabiting the space between prog and jazz fusion, the Emily Francis Trio produce a sound that’s sometimes cosmic or ethereal, sometimes earthy and groovy, but always expansive.
The group released their debut album, The Absent, in 2015 with a style rooted in acoustic piano, influenced by contemporary Scandinavian jazz, before Francis heard the music from New York’s fusion scene.