KC Jazz Club: Giacomo Gates and Trio

Baritone Giacomo Gates is "a singer who combines the mellow conversational elegance of a crooner with the hipster outlook of a bebop scat and vocalese singer" (Newark Star-Ledger).

• Oct 23, 2009
• Terrace Gallery
• 75 minutes
• $25.00

About the Program

About the Program

A Dr. Billy Taylor Select Performance
Heavily steeped in the traditions of the original vocal improvisers--from Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald through their modern counterparts Betty Carter and Leon Thomas--"Giacomo Gates is a singer who combines the mellow conversational elegance of a crooner with the hipster outlook of a bebop scat and vocalese singer" (Newark Star-Ledger). Gates's sheer joy, exuberance, wit, and unlimited creativity make him one of the most compelling artists in jazz today.
 
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