Devon Gates - Count Your Blessings | Live Room Opus Session

Devon Gates is a bassist, vocalist, and composer from Atlanta, Georgia, now based in Brooklyn, NY. After studying both anthropology and jazz performance at Harvard University, Berklee College of Music, and the Royal Academy of Music (London, UK) she has emerged in the contemporary jazz scene, working with esteemed artists including Terri Lyne Carrington, Vijay Iyer, Jen Shyu, and Nicole Mitchell, and performing at venues such as The Kennedy Center, SFJazz, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, and the London Jazz Festival. She also leads her own projects as a bandleader, collaborator, and composer, bringing her unique blend of jazz, chamber, and soul influences to New York, Japan, Italy, Mongolia, the UK, and more in recent years. In 2022, her original composition “Don't Wait" was published in the Berklee Press "New Standards" collection of 101 lead sheets by female jazz composers curated by Terri Lyne Carrington.

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Lyrics & Song by Irving Berlin
Performed & Arranged by Devon Gates

Video produced & Directed by Live Room Music LLC
Cinematography by Pablo Freese-Fernández
Photography by Abigail Bloch

Recorded at The Bridge Recording Studio