Release Date: 19 July 2011
Label: Savant Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 633842211626
Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz
Description
Giacomo Gates is an extraordinary vocal stylist. He's often credited as a contemporary Eddie Jefferson, but with his full-bodied baritone and blazing inventiveness he sounds like a cross between Billy Eckstine and Kurt Elling. Producer Mark Ruffin, known for his love and knowledge of Scott-Heron's music, chose Gates specifically to perform this repertoire. As bracing an innovator as he is an interpreter, Gates transforms the music into a cornucopia of delicacies that extends from the smooth and mellow to the razor-sharp. Scott-Heron made music that reflected the turbulence, uncertainty and increasing pessimism of the early '70s, merging the soul and jazz and drawing on an oral poetry tradition that reached back to the blues and forward to hip-hop. This material is tailor-made for Gates, who without question is the best-suited performer to deliver the satirical and insightful lyrics of a true American original, Gil Scott-Heron.
Tracklisting
Alan Broadbent Trio
Nicole Glover
Jim Snidero
Denise Donatelli
Conrad Herwig
Bill O'Connell
Mike LeDonne
Brandon Sanders
Giacomo Gates
Giacomo Gates
Giacomo Gates
Giacomo Gates
