Giacomo Gates – You (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:21 minutes | 538 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Jazz vocalist Giacomo Gates is blessed with a smooth and supremely expressive baritone voice and an all-inclusive musicality which encompasses a hipster-like coolness, a smattering of vocalese, an Eckstine-like seductiveness, the story telling ability of a griot, a firm footing in the blues and a sense of swing which is second-to-none. His performances can be quiet and full of insight (or innuendo) or be ebullient and joyful. Whatever style Gates may offer – be it sensitive, sensuous or syncopated – he infuses the music with an understated humor, wry cultural and social implications and an impish delight in surprising his listeners. You is a perfect example of Gates at his best with the vocalist putting together a program with a unique and decidedly altruistic leitmotiv. As Gates himself says, “The context of many songs written and recorded, are composed by people with ‘I’ problems… but not these songs. All of these songs are about you.” Here are 18 songs everybody knows and loves, arranged with creativity and wit and featuring Gates’ gregarious delivery so that there can be no mistake, “it’s all about you!”
Tracklist:
1-1. Giacomo Gates – Exactly Like You (02:33)
1-2. Giacomo Gates – I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (02:30)
1-3. Giacomo Gates – With Plenty of Money and You (01:46)
1-4. Giacomo Gates – I Didn’t Know About You (02:21)
1-5. Giacomo Gates – The Nearness of You (03:15)
1-6. Giacomo Gates – It Had to Be You (01:52)
1-7. Giacomo Gates – I Thought About You (01:52)
1-8. Giacomo Gates – I Want to Talk About You (02:37)
1-9. Giacomo Gates – I Mean You (02:12)
1-10. Giacomo Gates – P.S. I Love You (03:11)
1-11. Giacomo Gates – Are You Havin’ Fun Yet? (02:16)
1-12. Giacomo Gates – I Remember You (03:24)
1-13. Giacomo Gates – You’re Blasé (04:40)
1-14. Giacomo Gates – Everything But You (02:31)
1-15. Giacomo Gates – You’ve Changed (02:29)
1-16. Giacomo Gates – Since I Fell for You (04:34)
1-17. Giacomo Gates – I’ve Got News for You (03:40)
1-18. Giacomo Gates – You Never Miss the Water ‘Till the Well Runs Dry (02:28)
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