Most of us might consider relaxing while getting ready for our one-hundredth birthday, but Terry Gibbs has recently put together a remarkable new live CD by his six-time Grammy-nominated big band. “Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959” by the Terry Gibbs Dream Band, is a remarkable recording by an exciting band at the peak of its performance. These recently discovered tracks, recorded by legendary engineer Wally Heider in March and November of 1959, are from the same weeks with the same band as the previously available music, but these songs have never been available. Considered one of the best and most exciting big bands ever, the Terry Gibbs Dream Band was made up of stellar Los Angeles players and driven by the energetic and inventive solos of Terry and the force of drummer Mel Lewis. The songs consist of jazz standards and several big band classics, as well as some new numbers. This band had the unusual characteristic of original charts by an amazing array of the best contemporary arrangers, including Al Cohn, Bob Brookmeyer, Bill Holman, Marty Paich, and Med Flory.