{"id":2639,"date":"2011-07-26T23:46:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2011-07-26T23:46:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:46:35","slug":"giacomo-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/giacomo-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"GIACOMO GATES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2640\" title=\"GIACOMO-GATES-M-Review-June2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GIACOMO-GATES-M-Review-June2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GIACOMO-GATES-M-Review-June2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GIACOMO-GATES-M-Review-June2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>G<\/strong><strong>IACOMO GATES<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Savant]<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, <em>The Revolution Will Be Jazz<\/em> was not hurriedly assembled to capitalize on Gil Scott-Heron\u2019s death on May 27\u2014work on Giacomo Gates\u2019 tribute to the jazz poet and spoken-word artist had already wrapped by that sad occasion. If the album does point some uninitiated listeners toward the visionary, often controversial work of Scott-Heron, then all the better. But one would hope that its primary achievement will be to make more people aware of Gates, a first-rate singer who came to his craft late in the game\u2014now 61, he didn\u2019t start singing professionally until age 40\u2014and has matured into an engaging frontman. Here Gates utilizes his resonant, commanding instrument to place the focus squarely on Scott-Heron\u2019s words. He and his sympathetic crew smooth out some of Scott-Heron\u2019s rougher edges, not so much to tone him down as to recast him, proving that these sublime compositions will surely have a life apart from their creator. \u2013J. Tamarkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIACOMO GATES The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron [Savant] To be clear, The Revolution Will Be Jazz was not hurriedly assembled to capitalize on Gil Scott-Heron\u2019s death on May 27\u2014work on Giacomo Gates\u2019 tribute to the jazz poet and spoken-word artist had already wrapped by that sad occasion. If the album [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2089,1636,2090,2091,2092],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}