Happy 94th Birthday CLARK TERRY!

Published on Dec 14, 2014
Last week, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Cécile McLorin Salvant visited jazz legend Clark Terry, who turned 94 on December 14, 2014.
Join us in celebrating Mr. Terry's special day with this soulful performance of "Happy Birthday" at Jefferson Regional Medical Center.

Aretha Franklin & Clark Terry

Published on Feb 8, 2013
Aretha Franklin & Guests, performing Clark Terry's "MUMBLES" - 2001
Musicians include: Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Russell Malone, Ron Carter, Roy Haynes, Ron Carter, James Carter

#PepperAdams & #ClarkTerry med Sture Nordin Septett

Published on Sep 11, 2011
Pepper Adams och Clark Terry gästar Sture Nordin Septett i en upptagning från Mariahissen på Söder i Stockholm år 1978.
Pepper Adams Barytonsax, Clark Terry flügelhorn, Lars Sjösten piano, Sture Nordin Bas, Egil Johansen trummor.
I bakgrunden skymtar Nisse Sandström och Kalle Lundborg

Clark Terry (pictured), Don Friedman, Hank Jones, Maynard Ferguson ....

At JazzWax this weekend, Clark Terry (pictured), Don Friedman, Hank Jones, Maynard Ferguson and more... https://t.co/KYZueno1Av pic.twitter.com/UabhRmUKpw

— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) January 21, 2017

#ClarkTerry, #JohnScofield and #DonaldHarrison

Sliding into Thursday with great music ahead. Clark Terry, John Scofield and Donald Harrison. Whoot. 6-10AM w @garveyschild pic.twitter.com/6FWMIt4O9Z

— JAZZFM91 (@JAZZFM91) 12 de janeiro de 2017

"Take the A Train" with #ClarkTerry

Dig this performance of Red Mitchell playing "Take the A Train" with Clark Terry. The double bassist was born on this date in 1927.

— JazzTimes Magazine (@JazzTimes) September 20, 2016

Shirley Scott + Clark Terry

Reprinted from http://jazzwax.com

In Aug. 1966, organist Shirley Scott and flugelhornist Clark Terry came together to record an album for Impulse. The album, Soul Duo, included bassists George Duvivier and Ben Cranshaw and drummer Mickey Roker, and was recorded four months after another date featuring Scott and Clark—Roll 'Em: Shirley Scott Plays the Big Bands (Impulse). Unfortunately, Soul Duo would be the only album Scott and Clark recorded in a small-group format.

What makes this recording special is the conversational quality of Scott's organ grooves and Clark's "spoken" playing approach. Scott builds her ideas and backdrops in the spirit of big-band sections and Clark, as a member of some of the best bands of the 1940s, '50s and early '60s, knows all about that sound and performs here as a soloist in front of an orchestra. Throughout the album, Scott plays beautifully with her pointed, skittery gospel feel while Clark's playing is fleshy and growly. Best of all, the church-like testifying by both artists is soulful and measured, with each offering up their own hallelujah moments.

Shirley Scott died in 2002; Clark Terry died in February 2015.

JazzWax tracks: You'll find Soul Duo here.

JazzWax clips: Here's the album's title track:

And here's Heat Wave...

A special thanks to David Langner.

Used with permission by Marc Myers

Funeral for Jazz Legend Clark Terry

WHERE: The Abyssinian Baptist Church

Officiated by: Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III - 132 Odell Clark Place *
* (West 138^th Street between Lenox Ave. & Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.) New York, New York 10030
 
WHEN: Saturday, February 28, 2015 - 10:00 a.m.
 
The services will take place on Saturday to send home our beloved Clark Terry.  Clark peacefully went home to God on Saturday, February 21st in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, surrounded by his family, students and friends.  He was known internationally for his signature musicianship and gratitude for his love from many.  For nearly half a century, Clark's greatest passion was helping to make young musicians' dreams come true.

He was a tremendous source of inspiration, of love, of respect, of decency, and of human rights.  He was one of the first recruits of the United States Navy when black musicians were given the Rating of Musician in 1942.  From being one of the few musicians who played as a featured soloist in both the Count Basie and the Duke Ellington Orchestras, to being the first black staff musician at NBC, Clark had multiple bands including big bands, youth bands and other ensembles.  He was one of the most recorded jazz musicians in history on more than 900 albums.
 
Clark's devotion towards mentoring young musicians influenced the lives of worldwide master talents such as Quincy Jones, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis and Dianne Reeves amongst countless others.  Clark inspired everyone by example.  As he was quoted in the documentary about his life and love for mentoring students, Keep on Keepin' On, "Your mind is a powerful asset.  Use it for positive thoughts and you'll learn what I've learned.  I call it getting on the plateau of positivity."
 
Clark will be laid to rest at the Woodlawn Cemetery following the service. Funeral services entrusted to P.K. Miller Mortuary, Pine Bluff, Arkansas and George H. Weldon Funeral Home, New York City.

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Topsy Chapman, Clark Terry Celebrate Thanksgiving On Riverwalk Jazz

Published: 2013-11-28
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, we “break bread together” with songs in the spirit of Thanksgiving. New Orleans’ Topsy Chapman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, lending her soulful vocals to classic Spirituals and Gospel hymns. Three legends of American music—trumpeters Clark Terry, Harry "Sweets" Edisonand bass-baritone William Warfield—perform with the band and share heartfelt and humorous family stories of what this music has meant in their lives.

The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound.

Cornetist Jim Cullum says:
“My special interest is in the spirit that’s in the music and the spirit that’s in the Eucharist. There are many parallels here. The breaking of the bread that, for me, contains a powerful symbol of the miracle of life combines with a spirit of Thanksgiving. I think this has much in common with the melancholy, but at the same time, joyous spirit of the early jazz music I love. These Hymns and Spirituals say all this. They express pain and anguish akin to the blues—and still they are joyous.”

Spirituals were the folk music of generations of slaves. Born out of misery and sorrow, these songs must have been a source of inspiration and motivation to keep striving for freedom. Almost four hundred years ago, the first cargo of African slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. Slave ships kept arriving on these shores for some 250 years until President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865.

By the late 1800s, Spirituals were widely popular with black and white congregations throughout the country, and could be found in hymnals of almost every denomination. By the 1950s it was common for grade school children across the nation to sing Spirituals like “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” in their classrooms.

How do Spirituals and hymns fit into a life filled with jazz? For generations of jazzmen, Spirituals were their first introduction to a love of music. From childhood days in church—to grandparents singing favorites on long-ago Sunday mornings, Spirituals and hymns inspired their work in jazz.

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Clark Terry: Heart…Soul…Class

To me, Clark Terry is the Johnny Hodges of the trumpet, one of the few brass players of whom it may be truly said that he imposes his will over the trumpet–and not the other way around.

And while that may be a cunningly crafted illusion, Clark has always had a way of making the trumpet and flugelhorn do his bidding, with an ease of execution, a deep feeling for the blues, burnished tone, sophisticated harmonic sensibility and a degree of rhythmic-melodic fluency that are as warm, elegant and ebullient as the master himself.

I had the opportunity to spend a half an hour on the phone with Clark Terry back in 2000 upon the release of fourteen lovingly recorded encounters with a who’s who of jazz piano players for the Chesky label, entitled ONE ON ONE, appropriately enough—a joyfully engaging recital.

And a most gratifying experience, because Clark Terry is among the classiest, most nurturing, affable, engaging souls I’ve ever met: a truly loving, gentle man, and not only a master performer, instrumentalist and humorist, but a direct conduit to the entire history of jazz, much of which he experienced first hand, with a great teacher’s gift for distilling things into deceptively simple principles, making the medicine go down easy—and imparting the unshakeable belief that you can do this, too.

At several points in our conversation he elucidated some musical point by vibrating away with naught but his embouchure, buzzing away like a Bach Cello Suite by bringing a solitary forefinger to his lips.

Did I say buzzing? When I affix a forefinger to my own lips, on a good day I might elicit some vague semblance of sonic flatulence.

When Clark got to buzzing, there were notes, overtones, even chords—with nothing but his chops!

We are talking tone, people.  Each and every note an embryonic entity encapsulated in the luminous amniotic fluid of soul.

(In case you think I’m jiving, check out Clark’s amazing blues solo on nothing but his mouthpiece from a video clip of a Jazz at The Philharmonic performance with T-Bone Walker in the UK in 1966. Damn!)

I was flabbergasted. He made the basic principles of the trumpet come alive for me as no one ever had; in fact, being in his presence was so inspiring, I thought, “Hey, I can do that.”

Clark Terry and Snoop Dog

Well, not really.

Still, after getting got off the phone with Clark (way sooner than I wanted, but even back then his health was beginning to go south, and I didn’t want to wear his ass out), the first thing that popped into my head was that “If I am ever privileged enough to get more face time with this man, I am going to damn sure know more about the horn than I presently do.”

In due course, my dear friend, master trumpeter Ron Miles, gifted me a 1911 Holton Cornet. I practiced just enough to glean some rudimentary insights into the overtone series and how you make a sound, more or less–which further enhanced my respect for trumpeters in general and Clark Terry in particular.

I never did get to speak with Mister Terry again, but our brief encounter is indelibly etched in my recombinant DNA.

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Clark Terry: Germany 1987

Reprinted from http://jazzwax.com

What makes Clark Terry's trumpet and flugelhorn sound so special? As I wrote in 2010, it's his signature ability to swing hard and punctuate with confidence—without ever broiling his notes. Clark always leaves the ear with warm, pretty tones, mostly by bending notes slightly for flavor. Here's Clark and bassist Red Mitchell performing as a duet in 1987 on the national German TV network ZDF. A big thanks again to Jimi Mentis in Greece...

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Used with permission by Marc Myers

Clark Terry & Red Mitchell - Take The "A" Train

Count Basie Meets Clark Terry

Count Basie, from the film, "Rhythm and Blues Review," October 1950. The film is now in public domain and can be downloaded from http://www.archive.org

In between big bands, led this all-star group, which includes: Count Basie, piano; Wardell Gray, tenor sax; Buddy DeFranco, clarinet; Clark Terry, trumpet; Freddie Green, guitar; Jimmy Lewis, bass; Gus Johnson, drums.
From: http://www.jazzvideoguy.tv

Clark Terry and Louie Bellson: Improv Workshop

Trumpeter Clark Terry and Percussionist Louie Bellson discuss improvsation, the importance of listening, and playing with a group in April of 1985. Interview conducted by Dr. Thom Horning. From the compilation, Tri-C Jazz Fest Cleveland, 30th Anniversary Collection, Willard Jenkins, Producer.

Count Basie with Clark Terry

http://www.jazzvideoguy.tv presents the immortal Count Basie featuring Clark Terry on trumpet, Wardell Gray- tenor sax, Buddy DeFranco-clarinet, Freddie Green-guitar, Jimmy Lewis-bass and Gus Johns...

Clark Terry "In a mellow tone"