Search - Terry Gibbs Dream Band :: One More Time, Vol. 6

Quite possibly one of the best albums I own...

MikeD | Sonora, CA | 04/18/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I must have listened to this album 200x in the 4 months since I first heard a few cuts played on the local public radio station jazz show that airs overnight - cruising down the highway in the pre-dawn hours searching for something eclectic to listen to on the FM dial and suddenly Flying Home pours thru the speakers as I reach for the volume knob to turn it up and have a good listen -- hmmm, these guys are just cranking, this is great! Who *is* this?!? The Fat Man delivered the final blow, it's a slinky little number - I was hooked. Came home that afternoon and immediately searched for info on the band, even though I was a kid at the time the band was in its hey-day, the lineup in the band is familiar and impressive. These guys are having a ball playing and it clearly shows in the recording.



Listening to the background banter within the band never fails to make me smile. "Whooo-Whoo!" "Hi-ohhh!" "Cmon Baby!" - its almost as much fun to listen to them egg each other on, but you can't help but swing to the music. The band fully tears the roof of the place, the way the horns come in right away in Just Plain Meyer and throw you back in your seat is great - it's a great big dose of "here you go, hang on cause we're coming at you." If you haven't heard the track then cue it up and turn up the volume and hang on, its a great ride. The saxophones bantering back and forth in Opus One still amazes me each time I hear it.



I can just picture a bunch of 60's hipsters in black suits with skinny black ties crammed into the smokey club with their tortoise shell RayBans on. Excellent audio quality for old tapes that Terry found in the bottom of a closet just a few years back, a few dropouts and murmurs here and there but they don't detract at all from the recording. Complex and tight arrangements, this is a band that is clearly comfortable with themselves. Wish I could have seen them live, what a show it must have been. Get your hipster on, pour a martini, and settle in with this excellent album that'll leave you swinging. Hopefully more gold lives in the bottom of Terry's closet to be discovered soon."

WONDERFUL PERSONNEL

Joe Marquez | Pollock Pines, CA | 07/05/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"My very first album, an LP in 1957, was "Vibes on Velvet". Gibbs played his vibes during the entire tune, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes". I have so many memories tied to that album. In this one, a live performance, Gibbs was tired and asked Conte Candoli to play the solo in "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." It's beautiful. Pete Jolly has always been one of my favorite piano players and, like Candoli, can really "swing" and does so throughout this CD. West Coast Jazz at it's finest."