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Mar 19, 2021 · Hubert Gibbs Obituary. Hubert Gibbs, Jr. Died March 17, 2021 Hubert Gibbs, Jr., age 73, of Gainesville, died Wednesday March 17. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, March 20,...
- March 17, 2021
- Leonard “Doc” Gibbs
- On CTI and Creed – It’S All Business
- Sitting-In
- Thad Jones and Mel Lewis – Getting Started
- How Gibbs Met Grover?
- The 1975/76 CTI All-Star Gig
- “Two Doctors in Philly”
- Locksmith
- Not That Doc Gibbs
- Future Plans and Sound Therapy
Earlier this year I was working on the research for what became my CTI All-Stars postThe Story of the CTI All-Stars Live – Creed Taylor Produced (ctproduced.com). Leonard “Doc” Gibbs was one of the people I reached out to, try try to confirm some of the dates, musicians and organizational aspects of the summer 1975/76 CTI All-Star concerts. We mess...
Doc was magnanimous about his experiences with Creed and CTI, as well as his opinion about smooth jazz. Doc said he’d only worked in the studio with Creed a few times. He recalled the first time het met Creed, a recording session for a Bob James, with Grover Washington Jr., Eric Gale, Harvey Mason, maybe Gray King on bass, Ralph McDonald percussion...
Gibbs adventures in “sitting in”, started when he went to a concert night at the Apollo Theater in New York with the intention of meeting Freddie Hubbard. Hubbard offered Doc the chance to sit in at the Bijou Café in Philly. After one night, Gibbs was invited back for the rest of the week. They did a few other gigs in NY and Connecticut, but that w...
The first recorded album that Doc contributed to was Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, “Suite for Pops“Thad Jones & Mel Lewis – Suite For Pops (1975, Uni-pak, Vinyl) – Discogsthat was recorded in 1974. Doc had recorded two tracks which appeared on different Jones albums. He travelled to New York every Monday to sit-in with them at the Village Vanguard. Doc...
Having sat-in with Hubbard and Benson, Doc says he was introduced to Grover Washington Jr. after performing with George Benson at Carnegie Hall. Presumably this was the January 1975 concert, what’s interesting is that Gibbs doesn’t have a credit for Benson’s “Live At Carnegie Hall” album. Grover was playing at a club in Philly called “Just Jazz”, G...
Doc said that Airto was supposed to be part of the ’75 CTI Summer All-Stars tour, but he couldn’t make it(likely because Airto had moved to Arista by then), and that was how Doc got his invite. Gibbs would tell Al Hunter Jr. of the Philadelphia Daily News in 2001, that Airto was his inspiration to take up percussion. Here is the 1976 CTI All-Stars ...
We briefly discussed the nickname, it’s perhaps the most well known detail of Doc’s life. It was documented on Doc’s own website that was launched to promote his album “Servin’ It Up! Hot!” – “While recording Grover’s Live at the Bijou album in 1976, Grover acknowledged Doc for prescribing an herbal remedy for a nasty cold that Grover was suffering...
Doc says that Locksmith did a showcase for Warner/Electra Asylum and Arista for a recording contract, as well as obviously CTI/KUDU. Locksmith signed with Arista and produced their 1980 “Unlock The Funk” albumLocksmith – Unlock The Funk (1980, Vinyl) – Discogs, at the same time Arista also had four other Philly-based bands, including Breakwater. Br...
I asked Doc about the Dovera 45/single by a Doc Gibbs, I’ve subsequently seen an album listed on ebay that includes the the tracks from the 45. The album is on the Platinum City label. The album has a 1981 date, the Dovera single has an address of Longview TX 75601. Doc was categoric that these were not his recordings, and frankly, looking the albu...
I asked about future plans, recording projects etc. Doc had moved to the west coast in 2015, but it hadn’t really worked the way he’d hoped. He turned his attention to Sound Therapy, and re-invented himself as Baba Doc and was a member of the in the Yoruba/Orisa community. Gibbs was a priest of ObatalaObatala » Santeria Church of the Orishas for mo...
Mr. Hubert Gibbs, Jr age 73 of Gainesville, Ga passed away on Wednesday March 17, 2021 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following an extended illness.
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