In 1959, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs and his recently formed big band set up shop at the Seville, a Los Angeles nightclub owned by Harry Schiller. Many of those early sessions were taped, at Gibbs' request, by famed recording engineer Wally Heider before being left on a shelf and forgotten. After two weeks at the Seville, Gibbs and the band moved to a second club, the Sundown. The band was successful, drew large crowds, and was soon recording, first for Norman Granz at Verve Records, then for Jack Tracy at Mercury. By 1985, Gibbs and the ensemble, renamed the Terry Gibbs Dream Band (a name he had to be talked into using), was under contract to Fantasy Records, releasing many of the tapes made by Heider at the Sundown, which became Vols. 1-5 of the Terry Gibbs Dream Band for Fantasy.

In 1994, an earthquake in Northridge, CA, caused considerable damage to Gibbs' home there, so he called on a friend, jazz historian Rod Nicas, to help him reorganize his collection. Nicas found most of the band's recordings that were taped by Heider, and one of them, labeled "Dream Band," became Vol. 6, One More Time, in 2002. The Seville tapes remained secluded for twenty-two more years until Gibbs' son, Gerry, who was digitizing every recording his father ever made, came across one labeled "1959 Jazz Party." On listening, the elder Gibbs remembered them as sessions recorded at the Seville. There were half a dozen songs on the tape, and Nicas told Gibbs he had found twelve more never-released charts taped that same year at the Sundown.

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