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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), [3] Duke Ellington (1951–59), [3] Quincy Jones (1960), and Oscar Peterson (1964–96).
Learn about the life and career of Clark Terry, a world-class trumpeter, flugelhornist, educator, composer, and NEA Jazz Master. He performed for eight U.S. Presidents, recorded with hundreds of jazz greats, and taught many aspiring musicians.
Feb 22, 2015 · Feb. 22, 2015. Clark Terry, one of the most popular and influential jazz trumpeters of his generation and an enthusiastic advocate of jazz education, died on Saturday in Pine Bluff, Ark. He was...
Feb 23, 2015 · NEW YORK (AP) — Legendary jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, who mentored Miles Davis and Quincy Jones and played in the orchestras of both Count Basie and Duke Ellington and on “The Tonight Show,” has died. He was 94. Terry’s wife announced his death on his website late Saturday night.
Feb 22, 2015 · Clark Terry, a legendary jazz trumpeter and composer, passed away in 2015 at the age of 94. He played with Count Basie, Duke Ellington and other jazz greats, and taught jazz to aspiring musicians.
Feb 22, 2015 · The 94-year-old musician died Saturday. Clark Terry said he heard the sound of jazz everywhere as a kid in St. Louis in the 1930s: on the radio, in parades and wafting in from river boats...
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Feb 24, 2015 · One of the greatest practitioners of this humanistic art died on Saturday: the ebullient, effervescent, irreplaceable, irrepressible trumpet virtuoso Clark Terry.
