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Giacomo Gates at Jazz Bakery's Movable Feast Series at Kirk Douglas Theatre
Courtesy of Redbeard Simmons | Posted on June 2, 2013
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
Giacomo Gates
vocalsAbout
ONE SHOW ONLY - NO INTERMISSION!
With “Miles Tones,” 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: “Not many people can master this music, but Giacomo Gates has. He’s an important man. You’re in for a treat when Giacomo takes the stage! It’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 – a worldly wise grand-master of scat and vocalese. He is one of the jazz world’s finest living exemplars of true grit.”...