52nd & Broadway: Songs of the Bebop Era

Vibes legend Terry Gibbs rings up a newly recorded and spirited tribute to the bebop era, complete with full strings and jazz musicians James Moody (sax) and Nicholas Payton (trumpet) at his side. Performing 12 quintessential songs of the era, Gibbs revisits a time when bebop reigned and Broadway and 52nd - the original site of Birdland and the epicenter of the bebop scene - was a Mecca to those seeking musical enlightenment.