Terry Gibbs on working with Steve Allen

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Terry Gibbs on live recordings

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Terry Gibbs discusses improvisational skills and lack of rigidity

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Q: “You do play tunes quite differently every time – I mean, you’ve got the head and everything - but you don’t sort of vary a little bit or work out a pattern; I mean, you’re changing it all the time. If I hear you play the same tune twice…”

A: “You know, that's what should be jazz. I think it's ... once again, you know, who is the champ of that now and he was ... young people never got to know how good he was and when you work when you found that Bill Harris is a trombone player. Bill Harris could play ... well, let's pick 'Mean To Me' it's a ballad. He could play 'Mean To Me' and never play the melody the same way ever, never ever play the melody. He could play it four times in one night and everything would be different because he played everything by ear.”