Jazz Articles about Terry Gibbs

Terry Gibbs: Terry Gibbs Quartet Featuring Terry Pollard

by Samuel Chell
October 23, 2007

This eponymous album, made in 1954 for Mercury's EmArcy label, was Terry Gibbs' first recording under his own name and established him as the “wild man of the vibes" (he still is!). The nine tunes are a combination of Gibbs originals and swing era-classics, with only one ballad (Jimmy Van Heusen's “Imagination") to give the listener a chance to catch his breath before the next onslaught of all-out swing.Gibbs' musical roots are more in the swing era than ...

Terry Gibbs: Bebop Living Legend

by Jason Crane
June 25, 2007

ASCAP, one of the organizations that safeguards performers' and composers' rights, announced that it will add Terry Gibbs to its Jazz Wall of Fame in a ceremony on June 1 at Lincoln Center. Gibbs is already recognized as an ASCAP Jazz Living Legend for a career that spans the bebop era to the present day. In honor of Gibbs' award, The Jazz Session presents a 2004 interview with Terry Gibbs recorded after the release of his album 52nd & Broadway: ...

Terry Gibbs: Findin' the Groove

by Jack Bowers
October 2, 2006

Terry Gibbs, who has been Findin' the Groove for more than sixty years and continues to home in on it at the post-retirement age of 81 (82 on October 13), shares the front line with master flutist Hubert Laws on his latest album, which, in typical Gibbs fashion, swings relentlessly in a bop-centered groove from first note to last.

The vibes/flute tandem proves remarkably successful, especially when supported by a savvy rhythm section anchored by Terry's son, Gerry, at the ...

Terry Gibbs: Feelin' Good: Live In The Studio

by Stephen Latessa
July 15, 2005

After a while you learn there are very few sure things in this world. The team with the highest payroll and all-stars manning every position does not win the World Series every year. In fact, sometimes teams comprised of players who can be charitably described as nobodies even sweep them. Like they say, that's why you play the game.

On paper, Terry Gibbs' Feelin' Good looks like a can't miss proposition. Featuring an assortment of great players, including ...

A Fireside Chat with Terry Gibbs

by AAJ Staff
September 20, 2004

There is the old adage, “Practice makes perfect." And having been road tested for 68 years, Terry Gibbs is in effect perfect. Jazz vocabulary is contingent on experience, and Gibbs has plenty of stories to tell. He narrates an account of the “golden age of jazz" with 52nd & Broadway: Songs of the Bebop Era and it is a fascinating tale indeed.

All About Jazz: Let's start from the beginning.

Terry Gibbs: I come from a musical family. My brother ...

Terry Gibbs: 52nd & Broadway: Songs Of The Bebop Era

by AAJ Staff
September 14, 2004

Vibraphonist Terry Gibbs is a second-generation bebopper. Too young to have participated in the ground-breaking experiments at Minton's and Monroe's, he first came to prominence with Woody Herman at the end of the 1940's. But bebop is in his blood; it's his life. 52nd & Broadway, with its vintage bop tunes and their treatment by a string orchestra, celebrates that life.

Gibbs is 80, and he defies his age. His playing here is fluid and lithe, pulsating with his trademark ...

Terry Gibbs: 52nd & Broadway: Songs of the Bebop Era

by Michael P. Gladstone
September 4, 2004

Yes, it is 2004, but vibraphonist Terry Gibbs doesn't know that, and it is difficult to discern any difference between his playing today and forty years ago. When you're eighty years of age and working with two mallets, the motor neurons have a tendency to slow you down, but that certainly is not apparent here. On his 65th album, Gibbs is full of the lively spirit that has been a trademark; and if you recall him trading vibes choruses with ...