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Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime
By Terry Gibbs
Label: Mercury Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Bei Mir Bist du Sch
Terry Gibbs: Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime
by AAJ Staff
Opening with a few bars of wild Bar Mitzvah dance music based on “Bei Mir Bist Du Shöen," this reissue of a long-ago album by vibraphonist Terry Gibbs is more Jazz than Klezmer, but still manages to keep listeners Hora-fied almost all the way through. Supported by the swing time rhythms of drummers Bobby Pike and ...
Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime
By Terry Gibbs
Label: Mercury Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Bei Mir Bist du Sch
Terry Gibbs: Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime
by Elliott Simon
A klezmer band quickly transitions out of a vibe-based jazz quartet. Is this the latest in downtown fusion projects? No. It is the CD release of 1963's Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime. Terry is the remaining member of the Gibbs-Hampton-Jackson-Norvo “Big Four," whose collective work helped transform the vibraphone from a novelty into a ...
Watch What Happens When Laura Fygi Meets Michel LeGrand
By Laura Fygi
Label: Mercury Records
Released: 2000
Laura Fygi: Watch What Happens When Laura Fygi Meets Michel LeGrand
by Dave Hughes
Laura Fygi is one of the most under-recognized, best kept secrets of all female vocalists working today. Although she's nowhere near as jazzy as Ella or Sarah, or even her modern-day contemporaries Diane Schuur or Dianne Reeves, she still offers excellent interpretations, beautiful tone quality, and right-on-the-money intonation. This disc doesn't cover as wide ...
Leo Gandelman: Black Pearls
by Dave Hughes
Among the plethora of excellent saxophonists active in contemporary jazz today, Brasilian Leo Gandelman gets my vote for “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition." Performing primarily on tenor with occasional soprano, he offers a best-of-both-worlds combination of contemporary and traditional Brasilian rhythms and American contemporary jazz. For this program, he draws from a wealth of Brasilian composers including ...
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