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Clark Terry
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Clark Terry (1920–2015) was an American jazz musician born in St. Louis. He worked as a composer, trumpeter, songwriter, and bandleader, performing in the jazz, swing, bebop, and hard bop genres. Terry played the trumpet, flugelhorn, and voice. He recorded for Impulse!, Prestige, and Candid Records.
He received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and the NEA Jazz Masters award. Terry was male and spoke English. He was of African American ethnicity. He died of natural causes due to diabetes in Pine Bluff. He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator. He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948–51), Duke Ellington (1951–59), Quincy Jones (1960), and Oscar Peterson (1964–96). He was with The Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1972. His career in…
Known for
- Keep On Keepin' On — Self2014
- Jazz Icons: Oscar Peterson Live in '63, '64 & '65 — Self2008
- This Is Gary McFarland — Self2006
- Clark Terry: Live in Concert2001
- The Miles Davis Story — Self2001
- Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs — Self1990
- A Classical Jazz Christmas with Wynton Marsalis — Self1989
- Le Grand Échiquier — Self1972
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self1962
- The Mike Douglas Show — Self1961
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Clark Terry (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee. He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948–1951), Duke Ellington (1951–1959), Quincy Jones (1960), and Oscar Peterson (1964-1996). He also appeared on record with Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Dizzy Gillespie. <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Terry
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- St. Louis
- Place of death
- Pine Bluff
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- swing
- Genre
- hard bop
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Candid Records
- Official website
- clarkterry.com
- Image
- Clark Terry in 1981.jpg
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- Clark Terry
- date of birth
- 1920-12-14
- date of death
- 2015-02-21
- medical condition
- diabetes
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- diabetes
- name in native language
- Clark Terry
- place of burial
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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