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Giacomo Gates Sings The Song, Tony Adamo Writes The Music
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Tony Adamo
Jazz troubadour and terminal hipster Giacomo Gates just keeps getting better and better. Gates is one of the top male jazz singers around today. He's a talented, skillful, and a rock-solid professional. With his vocalese and bebop attitude, he sings, scats, dropping his swinging baritone voice into every lyric he sings. A few years ago, singer, spoken word recording artist Tony Adamo asked Gates to stop by and dig Adamo’s recording session for his CD, Tony Adamo And The New ...
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Interview: Giacomo Gates, 'You'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
It's no secret that Giacomo Gates is among my favorite male jazz singers today. His voice is meaty thick and his jazz sense is limber and always happening. He swings and bops with the confidence of the masters. Out today is Gates's new album, entitled You (Savant), a generous collection of 18 songs that have the word “you" in the title. He's backed by a smart trio and he gives each song an (Eddie) Jeffersonian spin complete with a flatted ...
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Vocalist Giacomo Gates Releases 'You' on January 28, 2022
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Jazz vocalist Giacomo Gates is blessed with a smooth and supremely expressive baritone voice and an all-inclusive musicality which encompasses a hipster-like coolness, a smattering of vocalese, an Eckstine-like seductiveness, the story telling ability of a griot, a firm footing in the blues and a sense of swing which is second-to-none. His performances can be quiet and full of insight (or innuendo) or be ebullient and joyful. Whatever style Gates may offer—be it sensitive, sensuous or syncopated—he infuses the music ...
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Ball & Chain Presents Special Musical Performance By Giacomo Gates on March 10 (3 Sets)
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Zack Bush
BALL & CHAIN PRESENTS SPECIAL MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY VOCALIST GIACOMO GATES New York Times Critically Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist’s First Show on Calle Ocho Ball & Chain, the historic and world famous live music venue located at 1513 Southwest 8th Street, Miami, FL 33135 is thrilled to present a special live musical performance by New York Times critically acclaimed jazz vocalist Giacomo Gates on Thursday, March 10, 2016. “We are so excited to host a jazz legend such as Gates within ...
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Giacomo Gates: It's All Cool
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of my favorite male vocalists is out with a new album—Everything Is Cool (Savant). I last wrote about Giacomo when his Miles Tones was released (here). And before that The Revolution Will Be JazzL The Songs of Gil-Scott Heron (here). Giacomo's groovy baritone is a throwback to a time when jazz vocals didn't just mean the American songbook. Here's an excerpt from my liner notes... “Nobody sings like Giacomo Gates these days. Back in the late 1940s and 1950s, ...
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Giacomo Gates Sings Scott-Heron
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Last Friday in the Wall Street Journal I reviewed jazz singer Giacomo Gates' new CD, The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron (go here). It's one of the most exciting and intelligent vocal albums I've heard in some time. Giacomo doesn't try to cute-up Scott-Heron nor does he over-hip the songs. Instead, he plays it straight—giving the material a baritone bopping in the vocalese tradition of Eddie Jefferson and Mark Murphy. The last time I posted about Gil ...
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New England Jazz Ensemble to Release Fifth CD at June 5 Concert Featuring Giacomo Gates, Ali Ryerson
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Ed Bride Associates
The 16-piece Big Band Celebrates 20th Birthday In Performance at Hartford's Polish National Home HARTFORD, CT—"It's a Grand Night for Swinging," The New England Jazz Ensemble's long-awaited fifth CD will be released on June 5, 2011, at a concert at the Polish National Home in Hartford. The 4pm concert also features guest vocalist Giacomo Gates and flute soloist Ali Ryerson. The concert includes jazz and blues standards that have been arranged by Jeff Holmes, John Mastroianni, and Walt Gwardyak, all ...
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Giacomo Gates' Vocalese Takes a New Turn
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Randy Weston and his African Rhythms Sextet, with master drummer Lewis Nash joining the aggregation on traps, closed out the month of January with a splendid week at Dizzy's Club. The occasion was in part a celebration of Randy's latest release The Storyteller for the Motema label. Numerous good folks were on hand to join in the celebration and the band was literally on fire. One of the two evenings I was there was capped by an interview Randy and ...
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Vocalese Singer Giacomo Gates Interviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Giacomo Gates brings a rich, full-bodied timbre to the vocal jazz table. His pure vocalese approach has earned him lauds among critics, who hail him a champion artist in the modern jazz genre. He's been performing alongside the most recognized artists in the industry, using only his voice to produce a broad range of spectral color. Gates can be found singing melodies, lyrics, and even singing bass lines or flute solos.
The vocalese medium has been expanding since Eddie Jefferson ...
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New England Jazz Ensemble to Record 'Live' Concert with Guest Soloists John Abercrombie, Ali Ryerson, and Giacomo Gates
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Ed Bride Associates
June 5 Performance at Hartford's Polish National Home Will be the 16-piece Big Band's Long-awaited Fifth CD
HARTFORD, CT -- The New England Jazz Ensemble, a 16-piece big band, will record its next album in concert on June 5, at the Polish National Home, 60 Charter Oak Ave., in Hartford, Connecticut. Two complete performances, at 5:30pm and 8:30pm, will each feature guest artists John Abercrombie (guitar), Ali Ryerson (flute), and Giacomo Gates (vocals).
Featuring both jazz standards and new compositions ...
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