OffBeat Magazine Trumpeter Terry Gibson Jr. unexpectedly passed away last week at his home in New Orleans at the young age of 29. Gibson was considered by man6y to be an authentic representation of the spirit and legacy of Louis Armstrong. A joyful, resilient, and ubiquitous musical presence on the streets of New Orleans and around the world, New Orleans trumpeter Terry Steve Gibson, Jr. definitely knew how to make people smile. Terry Gibson, Jr., performing with “Seeking Satch,” Bundeskunsthalle, Germany, 2010. He was raised under the musical traditions and tutelage of his father, Terry Gibson, Sr. in a loving family who supported his desire to cultivate his musical talent. Coming out of his marching band days as a senior at Warren Easton High School, his family cheered him on as a finalist in the first New Orleans international trumpet competition, “Seeking Satch,” a competition created by the French Market Corporation and the New Orleans Jazz Institute at the University of New Orleans “to keep the legend of New Orleans Icon Louis Armstrong alive at his birthplace and to inspire young trumpeters to follow his image.”