Terry Gibbs

American jazz vibraphone player & bandleader, born: October 13, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York. Father of Gerry Gibbs, formerly married to songwriter . Gibbs got his professional start on drums with the Judy Kayne band. After three years in the U.S. Army he returned to immediate activity in and around New York and to a revitalized jazz scene that vibrated to the new music of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and other pion…