Francesco Lo Giudice

Francesco Lo Giudice is an organist, pianist and keyboardist jazz player from Italy. A pupil of the legendary Joey DeFrancesco, he has been performing professionally since 2008 in various formations
both as leader and sideman. He mainly plays jazz and black music (soul, funk, blues, gospel, R’n’B). He has played in various Italian and European clubs and festivals (Alexanderplatz Jazz Club, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Village Celimontana, Casa del Jazz in Rome, Jazz Club Torino, Cantina Bentivoglio in Bologna, Capolinea 8, Vittoria Jazz Festival, Trasimeno Blues Festival, Kensington Roof Garden’ in London, etc.).
His Italian and foreign collaborations include John Webber, Byron ‘Wookie’ Landham, Joe Magnarelli, Carlo Atti, Alessandro Tomei. In 2024 he joined a Tribute Band of the Blues Brothers, in which he plays as a special guest, Tom ‘Bones’ Malone, historic trombonist and arranger of the original band, featured in both the film ‘The Blues Brothers’ and in the two official records with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi; lead vocalist of this line-up, Claudio ‘Greg’ Gregori, from the comedy duo “Lillo & Greg”.

In addition to the organ, he plays piano and keyboards in bands that perform perform at revue and corporate events. Alongside his live activity, he also teaches as a teacher of jazz organ and piano and keyboards in modern music. After having collaborated with Elvio Previati’s DLQ, a company pioneer in the production of digital phonic wheel organs, since 2017 he has been an endorser of the historic Italian company Viscount Instruments, for which he has performed at important trade fairs in the sector (NAMM in Los Angeles, Frankfurt Musikmesse) and made promotional videos and video guides of the organs Legend and Legend Soul organs, playing these instruments exclusively.