1. Clark Terry played with Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, and Oscar Peterson.
18 Facts About Clark Terry
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Clark Terry was with The Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1972.
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Clark Terry attended Vashon High School and began his professional career in the early 1940s, playing in local clubs.
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Clark Terry served as a bandsman in the United States Navy during World War II.
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Clark Terry influenced musicians including Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, both of whom acknowledged Clark Terry's influence during the early stages of their careers.
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Clark Terry was the first African American to become a regular in a band on a major US television network.
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Clark Terry has many relationships in the music world and they all speak highly of him.
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Jones led a band for the musical Free and Easy in 1959, and Clark Terry left Duke Ellington Orchestra to join them in Belgium.
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Clark Terry continued to play with musicians such as trombonist JJ Johnson and pianist Oscar Peterson, and led a group with valve-trombonist Bob Brookmeyer that achieved some success in the early 1960s.
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In February 1965, Brookmeyer and Clark Terry appeared on BBC2's Jazz 625.
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In 1998, Clark Terry recorded George Gershwin's "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Red Hot + Rhapsody, a tribute to George Gershwin, which raised money for various charities devoted to increasing AIDS awareness and fighting the disease.
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Clark Terry composed more than two hundred jazz songs and performed for eight US Presidents.
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In February 2004, Clark Terry guest starred as himself, on Little Bill, a children's television series.
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Clark Terry was a resident of Bayside, Queens, and Corona, Queens, New York, later moving to Haworth, New Jersey, and then Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings notes that Clark Terry appears on more of its listed recordings than any other artist.
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In December 2014 the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Cecile McLorin Salvant visited Clark Terry, who had celebrated his 94th birthday on December 14, at the Jefferson Regional Medical Center.
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On February 13,2015, it was announced that Clark Terry had entered hospice care to manage his advanced diabetes.
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Clark Terry became a mentor to generations of jazz players, including Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis and composer-arranger Quincy Jones.