Terry Gibbs
Terry Gibbs
Latest Release
- Kickin' on the Vibes
- October 2025
- • 10 Songs
Top Songs
| 1 | Limerick Waltz | ||
| 2 | Dancing in the Dark | ||
| 3 | You Don't Know What Love Is | ||
| 4 | Nose Cone | ||
| 5 | The Song Is You |
Albums
Nov 2024 • 18 songs
Jun 2022 • 8 songs
Jun 2022 • 1 song
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About
Biography
One of the most hyper of all jazzmen (even his ballads are taken mostly double time), Terry Gibbs is a consistently exciting and competitive vibraphonist. As a xylophonist, he won an amateur contest when he was 12. After spending three years in the military during World War II, Gibbs played on 52nd Street, gigged with Tommy Dorsey (1946 and 1948), Chubby Jackson (touring Scandinavia during 1947-1948), Buddy Rich (1948), Woody Herman's Second Herd (1948-1949), and Benny Goodman (1950-1952). Gibbs settled in Los Angeles in 1957, worked in the studios, led jazz orchestras (his la...