Giacomo Gates – August 26, 2011

Giacomo Gates  –  Patriot’s Park, Tarrytown  –  August 26, 2011

This was the only JazzForum Arts presentation I made it to this year – shout out to Mark Morganelli, still producing excellent jazz entertainment in relaxed settings.  Also my first visit to this venue.  Gates is a classic be-bop singer with an extremely wry sense of humor, he’s got major chops.  Instead of a music review (I usually skimp on these anyway), an interesting story.  The bass player here was Bill Moring, and the portrait is from a previous gig (Ignacio Berroa group).  There were some major problems with the original portrait, that is, it got kind of ripped when I was careless in removing an adjacent page from the sketchbook.  Let’s just call that episode a bit of OCD and leave it at that.  So I repair the portrait through a combination of tape and Photoshop sleight of eye, and it’s good to go.  Moring had put an interesting annotation above his signature: “Thanks for listening”.  After the Berroa gig, I had done an internet search to come up with an incorrect version of his last name, using the one instance that I had found, spelled “Morning”.  Then I was listening more closely at the Gates gig, and heard his name pronounced twice without any “n” in the middle.  The subsequent internet re-search yielded the correct version, so I’m putting it up here.  Moring’s blurb seems like a premonitory admonition, with a rectifying payoff.  Eventually I will correct the version in the Berroa post, just too lazy tonite.

Giacomo Gates

John Hart

Ron Vincent

Bill Moring

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