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Article: Album Review

Giacomo Gates: What Time Is It?

Read "What Time Is It?" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello

2:02.75. That might have been what longshot “Giacomo" (at 50-1) took to win the Kentucky Derby back in 2005. However, it will take longer--just short of an hour--to realize that this thoroughbred Giacomo rides home a winner with What Time Is It?. Hold the oats and roses and grab the ear buds. Giacomo ...

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Giacomo Gates: What Time Is It?

Read "What Time Is It?" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

What is it that separates a “jazz singer" from the wannabes? While many people are known as or call themselves jazz singers, only a handful truly merit the name. Giacomo Gates, whose latest album What Time Is It? is his seventh (and fourth for Savant Records), is one of the chosen few. Why? Well, as the ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Swinging with Gates is quite a jazz journey

Swinging with Gates is quite a jazz journey

Giacomo Gates' jazz vocals mastery is rooted deep in the scat and vocalese traditions, then blended with his engaging ability to put songs in context and good humor. He has carved out his own special niche among jazz vocalists. His career included construction work on railroads and the Alaska Pipeline among many other things before diving ...

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Article: Album Review

Dave Tull: I Just Want to Get Paid!

Read "I Just Want to Get Paid!" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Whoa! Is that a sharp new Dave Frishberg lyric we hear poking fun at the pompous and assailing the absurd? Could it be Bob Dorough, Mose Allison or perhaps Giacomo Gates? No, the often humorous and always perceptive sentiments expressed on I Just Want to Get Paid! are those of Los Angeles- based sideman Dave Tull ...

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News: Event

Ball & Chain Presents Special Musical Performance By Giacomo Gates on March 10 (3 Sets)

Ball & Chain Presents Special Musical Performance By Giacomo Gates on March 10 (3 Sets)

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 ...

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Everything Is Cool

By Giacomo Gates

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Everything Is Cool; If I Were You, Baby, I’d Love Me; When Lovers They Lose; Social Call; Hazel’s Hips; Almost Blue; Take Five; Who Threw the Glue?; Here Today and Gone Tomorrow; Please Don’t Bug Me; All Alone; Well You Needn’t / It’s Over Now.

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Giacomo Gates: Everything Is Cool

Read "Everything Is Cool" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello

Federal regulations require food and beverage manufacturers to provide “Nutrition Facts" on all package labels. They want you to know what you're digging into. Now, if recordings had that same requirement, Everything Is Cool from Giacomo Gates might read this way: “Ingredients: 100% genuine talent and devotion to the true art of jazz vocalizing. All natural ...

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Giacomo Gates: Everything Is Cool

Read "Everything Is Cool" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Giacomo Gates was almost forty years old when someone suggested that he try his hand at singing. Luckily for the rest of us, Gates thought that was a good idea, moved to New York City later that year (1989) and began singing in clubs. Six years later Gates recorded his first CD, Blue Skies, and Everything ...

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Article: Album Review

Jennifer Leitham: Mood (S)wings

Read "Mood (S)wings" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

One of the rules of thumb in jazz is that hardly anyone ever looks forward to a bass solo. Rules, however, were made to be broken, and a case in point is multi-talented Jennifer Leitham whose solos on Mood (S)wings are nimble, well-crafted and consistently engaging--in other words, worth looking forward to. Not that anything less ...

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News: Performance / Tour

The hipster returns

The hipster returns

Jazz singer Giacomo Gates is full of surprises—for his audience, and his bandmates. His performances are richer for it. Such was the case Saturday night when he closed out February with a South County Jazz Club concert at the Glenridge Performing Arts Center in Sarasota FL.Gates' band for the night, and a pair of jazz bistro ...


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