Jazz Articles about Tom Giacabetti

Tender Heart: Songs Of Tom Giacabetti And Melissa Gilstrap

by Victor L. Schermer
September 27, 2016

The late Tom Giacabetti was a master guitarist based in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Towards the end of his life, cut short at age 64 by a prolonged illness, he compiled several of his own compositions for some of which lyrics were set by Melissa Gilstrap, a Philly lawyer and lover of music, poetry, literature, and the arts, who is currently making a name for herself as a jazz lyricist. (Her words are featured in a self- produced 2013 recording ...