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Clark Terry

Jazz
Hard bop
Big band
A legendary trumpeter who played with some of the great St. Louis big bands of the 1940s and '50s, Clark Terry mentored a new generation of stars including Miles Davis and Quincy Jones and was said by Dizzy Gillespie to make "the happiest sound in jazz." Born into a poor family in Missouri, Terry was one of 11 children and couldn't afford trumpet lessons, so instead learned second-hand from the local kids who could. He went on to play in the US Navy band during WWII and gave up a promising career as a boxer to become a sideman in the Count Basie Orchestra, also playing with Duke ...
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Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)Clark Terry
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TenderlyCarol Sloane and Clark Terry
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Work SongJoe Williams, Phil Bodner, Urbie Green, Jerome Richardson, Bernie Leighton, Kenny Burrell, Clark Terry and Phil Woods
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I Won't DanceCarol Sloane and Clark Terry
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Just FriendsDizzy Gillespie, Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Clark Terry, Freddie Hubbard and Bobby Durham
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Mack The KnifeClark Terry and Oscar Peterson
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Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)Clark Terry

Squeeze Me

6:17

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TenderlyCarol Sloane and Clark Terry

The Songs Ella & Louis Sang

4:22

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Work SongJoe Williams, Phil Bodner, Urbie Green, Jerome Richardson, Bernie Leighton, Kenny Burrell, Clark Terry and Phil Woods

Time Further Out

2:30

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I Won't DanceCarol Sloane and Clark Terry

The Songs Ella & Louis Sang

5:00

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Just FriendsDizzy Gillespie, Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Clark Terry, Freddie Hubbard and Bobby Durham

Catch Me!

11:58

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Mack The KnifeClark Terry and Oscar Peterson

Oscar Peterson Trio + One

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