Harry Babasin was (along with Oscar Pettiford) probably the first bassist to play jazz cello. This LP reissue of a set originally for the MOD (Music of the Day) label features Babasin's Jazz Pickers (a quartet with guitarist Dempsey Wright, bassist Ben Tucker, and drummer Bill Douglass), plus guest vibraphonist Terry Gibbs. The music (five Babasin originals and three veteran standards) swings hard but lightly with Babasin's cello solos being the date's most unusual fe...   [ read more ]

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The music on this CD, not released for the first time until 1986, features the formerly little-known Terry Gibbs Big Band, an orchestra that worked fairly regularly in Los Angeles from 1959-1962. The repertoire is primarily swing-era standards, but the arrangements (by Bill Holman, Bob Brookmeyer, Al Cohn, Marty Paich, and Manny Albam) are fairly modern for the time; the all-star group's ensembles are tight and such colorful soloists as vibraphonist Gibbs, valve trombonist {$Bob ...   [ read more ]

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Fronted by singer/guitarist Christian Gibbs, The Cardia Bros. is a new assemblage of veteran New York City musicians laying the final bricks in Gibbs' new batch of songs, The Pinkermen Set. Gibbs was the lead guitarist for Modern English and Foetus, as well as the singer, guitarist and principle songwriter for the Morning Glories. He achieved solo notoriety when Atlantic Records discovered him and then released the 29 Over Me LP by the C. Gibbs Group. Parting ways with Atlantic, Gibbs moved back to N...   [ read more ]

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