Gary Gibson Quartet/Trio

The instrumentation of the quartet can be either vibraphone or saxophone with a rhythm section of piano, bass, and drums. The trio can consist of either vibraphone, piano and bass (no drums), or a standard jazz trio of piano, bass and drums. For special events, a larger group (quintet) featuring all five instruments can be used.

The repertoire of the group is based on that body of great American songs written in the last sixty years or so.....from Tin Pan alley to Miles Davis.....the jazz standards. These songs are remarkably versatile, and can function as pleasant atmosphere/dinner music, or can get people on their feet dancing.

Some of the songs you may hear include:
Straight Ahead: Love for Sale, Sugar, Groovin' High, Joy Spring, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), Seven Steps to Heaven, A Foggy Day, Have you Met Miss Jones, The Days of Wine and Roses, Tangerine, This Will Be My Shining Hour, Do Nothing 'Til You Hear from Me, Gone with the Wind, It Could Happen to You, Fly Me to the Moon, Old Devil Moon, Our Love is Here to Stay, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, The Song is You, The Way You Look Tonight, Ain't Misbehavin', Falling in Love with Love, Yesterdays, Beautiful Love, Third Floor Richard, Autumn Leaves, All the Things You Are, Stella by Starlight, Just Friends, Scrapple from the Apple, Freight Trane, Green Dolphin Street, My Secret Love, There is No Greater Love, Invitation, There Will Never Be Another You, Bye Bye Blackbird, In Your Own Sweet Way, Teach Me Tonight, Anthropology, Just Squeeze Me, Four, I Should Care, If I Were a Bell, Like Someone in Love, It Had to be You, Pent Up House, Robbin's Nest, Sandu, Stolen Moments, Speak Low, Donna Lee, Almost Like Being in Love, Bud Powell, I Hear a Rhapsody, Prelude to a Kiss, You Stepped Out of a Dream, Stop Time

Ballads: Over the Rainbow, Unforgettable, What a Difference a Day Made, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, Stardust, In a Sentimental Mood, Easy Living, I Remember You, Laura, Lover Man, Black Coffee, Misty, 'Til There Was You, Isfahan, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, Peace, Sophisticated Lady, Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most, Polkadots and Moonbeams, Mood Indigo, Embraceable You, But Beautiful, Spring is Here, Lush Life, Willow Weep for Me, Moonlight in Vermont, Never Let Me Go, Basin Street Blues, Skylark, Isn't It Romantic, Body and Soul, Darn That Dream, I Got it Bad (And That Ain't Good), It Had to Be You, Stormy Weather, My Romance

Latin: Desifinado, St. Thomas, Woody 'n you, Triste, Wave, You Go to my Head, Gentle Rain, Lucky Southern, Spring is Here, Blue Bossa, Corcovado, How Insensitive, Flamingo, Chega de Saudade (No More Blues), Here's That Rainy Day, Black Orpheus, Ceora, You Stepped Out of a Dream

Waltzes: Someday My Prince Will Come, Up Jumped Spring, Falling in Love with Love, Emily

Popular/Dance: Our Love is Here to Stay, The Days of Wine and Roses, Embraceable You, Just Friends, After You've Gone, Honeysuckle Rose, Take the A Train, In a Mellow Tone, Stompin' at the Savoy, Bye Bye Blackbird, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, Stardust, Yesterday, Michelle, Let's Fall In Love, Indiana, Fly Me to the Moon, All of Me, It Had to be You, Stormy Weather, Just Squeeze Me, Satin Doll, My Romance, Mood Indigo, The Shadow of Your Smile, Isn't She Lovely?, Ain't Misbehavin', Paper Moon, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Unfogettable, What a Difference a Day Made

Gary Gibson formerly taught jazz percussion at Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts, a post he held from 1988 (when he moved to Seattle from Chicago) to 1996. A drummer since the age of five, and vibraphonist since the age of eight, he has worked professionally for 17 years, playing and/or recording with such jazz greats as Bud Shank, and various local jazz and ethnic music groups. Gary has been the drummer/percussionist for many of the shows at Seattle's Fifth Avenue Theater, and is the percussionist in the Seattle Festival Orchestra, which has backed up national acts in local concerts (Ray Charles, Linda Ronstadt, Collin Ray, etc). Gary also leads Calypso Blue and Panduo, calypso groups in which he plays the steel drums.

The personnel filling out the rest of the groups are chosen from a select group of the Northwest's finest jazz musicians. These players are all top notch instrumentalists, and represent the best talent that Seattle's flourishing jazz community has to offer!

Whether you're seeking background music for a restaurant/bar setting or a company party, elegant dance music for a wedding reception, or an all-out swinging concert program, the Gary Gibson Jazz Quartet/Trio can accomodate your needs with flair and professionalism.

Listen to a RealAudio sample:
(If you don't have it already, you can download the free RealAudio Player. The RealAudio format is very effective at compression, however the audio quality is low -- the sound is rather tinny, like an old pocket transistor radio. This is not a flaw of the recordings or of the artists).

Gary Gibson Jazz Quartet with Saxaphone. This file contains 4 song excerpts and is 6 minutes/03 seconds long
Gary Gibson Jazz Quartet with Vibraphone. This file contains 2 song excerpts and is 7 minutes/23 seconds long.

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