From the Cuneiform Records Bandcamp site:
“Gibbs’ intermittent relationship with Germany’s NDR Bigband, one the world’s longest-running jazz ensembles, dates back to the early 1970s and has provided a particularly valuable vehicle for his vivid musical imagination. “I feel I know the individual players so well, that I write for them personally, or use how I know them in making orchestrational choices,” Gibbs says of the NDR Bigband. “That’s a luxury these days, when other projects are written more for the standard instrumentation without knowledge of the personal attributes (stunning as though they might be, and often are).”“
