Results for "Terry Gibbs"

Grammy Nominee, Phil Kelly Joins the Artists Recording Collective

June 21, 2009

Grammy Nominee and noted composer/arranger, Phil Kelly has joined the Artists Recording Collective (ARC). In addition to more than 40 years as a composer/arranger for film, TV, and other media applications, he has written for bands like Bill Watrous' NY Wildlife Refuge, the Old Tonight show band, Doc Severinsen, Si Zentner, as well as functioning as ...

Gary Burton: Forging Ahead

by R.J. DeLuke
May 25, 2009

"I got started in Nashville and knew a lot of the country musicians. I got my first record contract from Chet Atkins who saw me playing in a local club in Nashville and who decided to talk to RCA and get them to offer me a long-term contract," says this renowned musician born in a small ...

Bud Shank: A Voice for the Ages

by Jack Bowers
April 29, 2009

I'll always have fond memories of the 2007 Prescott (Arizona) Jazz Summit, as it was the last time I had the great pleasure of seeing and hearing the phenomenal alto saxophonist Bud Shank doing what he did best: enfolding an entire audience in the palm of his hand with a seemingly endless stream of irrepressible notes ...

“Friends and Family Celebrate Ella’S Birthday” Tickets Go On Sale.

February 27, 2009

Tickets went on sale today for the all-star charity event starring Ray Brown Jr., whose dad was famed bassist Ray Brown and mother was “America’s First Lady Of Song”, Ella Fitzgerald. Brown will perform songs from his latest SRI Jazz release, Friends And Family, an all-star duets style album released late last year. The show date ...

Ray Brown, Jr. Sets All-Star Charity Tribute

February 4, 2009

Shelly Liebowitz, President of SRI Jazz Records, has announced that Ray Brown, Jr. will headline a special concert during New Orleans’ Jazz and Heritage Festival week, on Saturday, April 25, at historic Generations Hall, a city landmark since 1821. Entitled “Friends and Family Celebrate Ella’s Birthday,” the event will take place on Ella Fitzgerald’s (Brown, Jr.’s ...

Terry Gibbs Quartet Featuring Terry Pollard

By Terry Gibbs

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Seven Come Eleven; Lonely Dreams; Dickie's Dream; Imagination; King City Stomp; Pretty Face; The Continental; Bless My Soles; Nutty Notes.

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 ...

What's New?

Featuring the music of Terry Gibbs
Duration: 4:19
June 30, 2007

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 ...

Findin' the Groove

By Terry Gibbs

Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2006
Track listing: Bernie