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Clark Terry

Jazz
Hard bop
Big band
A legendary trumpeter who played with some of the great St. Louis big bands of the 1940s and '50s, Clark Terry mentored a new generation of stars including Miles Davis and Quincy Jones and was said by Dizzy Gillespie to make "the happiest sound in jazz." Born into a poor family in Missouri, Terry was one of 11 children and couldn't afford trumpet lessons, so instead learned second-hand from the local kids who could. He went on to play in the US Navy band during WWII and gave up a promising career as a boxer to become a sideman in the Count Basie Orchestra, also playing with Duke ...
Songs
Just Friends
Just FriendsDizzy Gillespie, Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Clark Terry, Freddie Hubbard and Bobby Durham

Catch Me!

11:58

Tenderly
TenderlyTony Scott, Bill Evans and Clark Terry

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

4:37

That Old Black Magic
That Old Black MagicClark Terry

Serenade to a Bus Seat

1:59

When Lights Are Low
When Lights Are LowJ.A.T.P. All-Stars and Clark Terry

Return To Happiness: Jazz At The Philharmonic, Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo, 1983

3:18

Squeeze Me
Squeeze MeDavid Friesen, Bud Shank and Clark Terry

The Fabulous Bud Shank Quartet

10:17

When It's Sleepy Time Down South
When It's Sleepy Time Down SouthCarol Sloane and Clark Terry

Portraits

3:26

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