The Great Gates 1949-1957 CD

Edward Gates White
The Great Gates 1949-1957 CD

This release is believed to be the first ever CD collection – and the first collection of any kind since the mid-1980s – of the excellent Rhythm & Blues recordings of Edward Gates White, also known as The Great Gates, and occasionally The Man In The Moon.
ates was typical of the many West Coast-based artists who recorded consistently throughout most of the 1950s  without ever really getting the recognition his superb records should have earned him.
His one R&B Top 10 hit Late After Hours was a calling card that saw him label hopping across a host of small L.A. independent labels, always making great music and always hoping that another hit might eventually come.
It never didn’t, but that was no reflection on the quality of his recordings, which – as you will hear in this collection – are uniformly excellent.
Backing Gates on these tracks are some of Los Angeles’ most eminent session musicians of the period, including Marvin Phillips (later of Marvin and Johnny) on saxophone, Chuck Norris on guitar and Richard Lewis on piano.
Gates lived a long and full life, long enough to benefit from and appreciate the first wave of collector interest in his music almost 40 years ago.
Sadly he passed in 1992, but his music sounds as great now as it did when he first recorded it more than 70 years ago.