Jazz Articles about Clark Terry

Clark Terry Quintet: Live on QE2

by Dave Nathan
September 1, 2001

This is a “two fer" album. Not that there are two discs for the price of one. Rather the album is divided between instrumentals by Clark Terry's regular quintet and the other with Terry and the group accompanying four very good jazz/blues singers. The affair was part of a floating jazz festival on the Queen Elizabeth 2 with more than 1700 people in attendance. It's not clear from the liner notes whether all the tracks were the products of the ...

Clark Terry: Herr Ober Live at Birdland Neuburg

by Dave Nathan
August 1, 2001

Too often, when reviewers write about the albums of elder statesmen of jazz, one of the first things referred to his age and how well they do despite it. There's no need for this condescending reference to Clark Terry. He continues to entertain with his clear, melodic, horns and with his humor. If anything, after more than 50 years of playing jazz, he has separated the wheat from the chaff. So what you hear is the best jazz trumpet has ...

Clark Terry: One On One

by Bill Donaldson
July 1, 2001

At the age of 80, Clark Terry finally is being acknowledged as one of the greatest trumpet players in jazz. The crescendo of recognition started for his 75th birthday, when he made the cover of Down Beat, when he earned “Lifetime Recognition" awards left and right, and as, although not signed to a single label, he continued to release distinctive recordings solely or jointly. In spite of infirmity and age, Terry still is touring heavily and spreading his optimistic influence ...

Clark Terry: Herr Ober

by C. Michael Bailey
July 1, 2001

On the eve of his 80thbirthday, Herr Terry gives the jazz community a birthday present.

Clark Terry has the chops of men 40 years his junior. Herr Ober finds the master with his current working quintet live on the Danube in the middle of Bavarian countryside. His saxophone chair is home to the capable Dave Glasser, who has appeared with Terry on the earlier Nagel Heyer release Uh! Oh! (NH 2003), so their rapport is evident. Together, Terry and Glasser ...

Clark Terry: Daylight Express

by Mike Neely
March 1, 2001

The brilliant Clark Terry for how else can one describe this trumpet/flugelhorn player who over the years has shone so brightly with not only Duke Ellington (1951-59), but also with Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor. But that was just early on in his long, distinguished career. To this day he has been a marvelous technician, a distinctive voice, and a relentlessly creative mind. Swing,bebop, avant-garde what does it matter, it seems it’s all music to Clark Terry who has consistently ...

Clark Terry: Intimate Stories

by Jim Santella
December 1, 1998

Clark Terry – Intimate Stories – (Challenge Records) [CHR 70050] Challenge Records, P.O. Box 540, 6800 AM Arnheim, The Netherlands Recorded July 20, 1978 (58:44) 1998 release Fun-loving trumpeter and singer Clark Terry was recorded in a Paris studio July 20, 1978 as part of a drummerless trio. The material reissued recently by Challenge Records comes through “loud and clear," with the rhythm section swinging behind Terry’s expressive trumpet. Pianist Horace Parlan and bassist Red Mitchell carry lyrical solo duties ...