EMILY FRANCIS TRIO

The prog jazz keyboardist taking her sound on a voyage into the Atomic age.

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“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. “The gig that changed my life was this band called Forq,” she says. “The keyboard player is Henry Hey and there’s a couple of people from Snarky Puppy in that band. It was this epiphany: ‘Oh my God, he’s using all these incredible keyboard sounds I haven’t heard for years.’ It blew…

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