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Terry Gibbs Dream Band: Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959

Read "Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


«Non credo che ci sia mai stata una band migliore di questa, compresa la mia». Mel Lewis espresse queste parole per la mitica orchestra che il vibrafonista Terry Gibbs guidò in California tra il 1959 e il 1961 e fu chiamata “Dream Band" per l'entusiasmo che suscitò tra i fortunati che l'ascoltarono dal vivo. Giudizi così perentori non vanno mai presi alla lettera ma ascoltando queste inedite registrazioni non li giudicherete troppo esagerati. Stan Kenton espresse simili opinioni ...

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Terry Gibbs: Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959

Read "Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959" reviewed by Jack Bowers


In 1959, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs and his recently formed big band set up shop at the Seville, a Los Angeles nightclub owned by Harry Schiller. Many of those early sessions were taped, at Gibbs' request, by famed recording engineer Wally Heider before being left on a shelf and forgotten. After two weeks at the Seville, Gibbs and the band moved to a second club, the Sundown. The band was successful, drew large crowds, and was soon recording, first for Norman ...

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Terry Gibbs: Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959

Read "Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


Someone once asked Terry Gibbs how it was possible that if you took his side men, or some subset of them, and put them together in another band, they never quite sounded as good. Gibbs replied, modestly, that it was all in the arrangers. He got the best arrangers, like Bill Holman, Marty Paich and Med Flory. Others did not. And so the story went. It would have been tempting to ask if, perhaps, Gibbs had ...

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