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 really like making live recordings, don’t you?”

A: Terry Gibbs: “I rather do a live recording than go in a studio anytime. Only because in a studio, you have a tendency to hear a play back. As you play something nice, you have a tendency to almost do another take of wanting to stick it in.”

Interviewer: “To try and play that again.”

Terry Gibbs: “Yes, and that's wrong, although I recently did an album, unfortunately, it's for Japan. We did it for Japan with Lou Levy, Al Viola, Jimmy Smith and Andy Simpkins. And the people from Japan when they do a record, they do it with a lot of class. You do three sessions and you do two-two in beat sessions and if you can't get two-two abd then … and we lucked out. Most of the time, we did the first takers. We made up a thing and right to studio and it was fun. Only because it was one of these things where you didn't have to do four million takes. The first one it came out good, so there is no sense, even though maybe it could have been better but the first one was more true than the second one would have been. That's why I like live recordings.”