Giacomo Gates\u00a0 –\u00a0 Patriot’s Park, Tarrytown\u00a0 –\u00a0 August 26, 2011<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 Also my first visit to this venue.\u00a0 Gates is a classic be-bop singer with an extremely wry sense of humor, he’s got major chops.\u00a0 Instead of a music review (I usually skimp on these anyway), an interesting story.\u00a0 The bass player here was Bill Moring, and the portrait is from a previous gig (Ignacio Berroa group).\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Let’s just call that episode a bit of OCD and leave it at that.\u00a0 So I repair the portrait through a combination of tape and Photoshop sleight of eye, and it’s good to go.\u00a0 Moring had put an interesting annotation above his signature: “Thanks for listening”.\u00a0 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”.\u00a0 Then I was listening more closely at the Gates gig, and heard his name pronounced twice without any “n” in the middle.\u00a0 The subsequent internet re-search yielded the correct version, so I’m putting it up here.\u00a0 Moring’s blurb seems like a premonitory admonition, with a rectifying payoff.\u00a0 Eventually I will correct the version in the Berroa post, just too lazy tonite.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Giacomo Gates<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>John Hart<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Ron Vincent<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Bill Moring<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Giacomo Gates\u00a0 –\u00a0 Patriot’s Park, Tarrytown\u00a0 –\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Also my first … Continue reading