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Giacomo Gates at Jazz Bakery's Movable Feast Series at Kirk Douglas Theatre

Where

Kirk Douglas Theatre
Jazz Bakery's Movable Feast Series

9820 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA
Map
(213) 628-2772

When

Sat, June 22, 2013
8:00pm

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Musicians

About

ONE SHOW ONLY - NO INTERMISSION!

With โ€œMiles Tones,โ€ Gates springboards into the big league of great jazz singers with solid material and an in-the-pocket band that underscores his intrinsic hipness and gift for a song. His exciting and essential jazz attributes of swinging, improvising and deep feeling for the blues make Gates an extremly accomplished singer, of the highest order. If a Rolls Royce could sing jazz... it would assuredly sound like Giacomo Gates.

Jon Hendricks, in Sunday NY Times Feature: โ€œNot many people can master this music, but Giacomo Gates has. Heโ€™s an important man. Youโ€™re in for a treat when Giacomo takes the stage! Itโ€™s loose and jazzy. He tells stories, sings, scats and declares homage to King Pleasure and Eddie Jefferson and makes no bones about it. Gates is a jazz troubadour โ€“ a worldly wise grand-master of scat and vocalese. He is one of the jazz worldโ€™s finest living exemplars of true grit.โ€...

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