About Terry Gibbs
Terry Gibbs is an American jazz vibraphonist and band leader. Terry Gibbs and Mel Zelnick Music Stop was also the first teaching facility of Freddie Gruber and Henry Bellson, brother of Louie. As an instrumentalist, together with his big band, the Dream Band, Gibbs has won prestigious polls, such as those of Downbeat and Metronome. Gibbs has performed or recorded with Tommy Dorsey, Chubby Jackson, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Alice Coltrane, Louie Bellson, Charlie Shavers, Mel Tormé, Buddy DeFranco, and others. On being discharged from the armed forces, where he played drums in military bands, Gibbs worked in New York with Bill DeArango and recorded with Tiny Kahn in Aaron Sachs' quintet (1946).
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