Clark Terry
Swing music, Musical Artist
1920 –
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Who is Clark Terry?
Clark Terry is an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.
He played with Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Quincy Jones. Terry's career in jazz spans more than seventy years and he is one of the most recorded of jazz musicians.
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- Born
- Dec 14, 1920
St. Louis - Also known as
- C Terry
- Terry, Clark
- Mumbles
- C.T.
- Chief Bogen
- Clark 'Mumbles' Terry
- The Tonight Show Band
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Vashon High School
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on July 23, 2013
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