Complete Albums 1954-60(4c
Label: MVD/CONVEYOR Catalog: EN4CD9080 Format: CD Trumpet - Clark TerryWhat Is This Thing Caled Love? Darn That Dream Move Medley: My Funny Valentine/Don't Worry 'Bout Me/Bess, You Is My Woman N Swahili Double Play Slow Boat Co - Op Kitten The Countess Tuma Chuckles Disc 2 Donna Lee Boardwalk Boomerang Digits Serenade to a Bus Seat Stardust Cruising That Old Black Magic C Jam Blues In a Sentimental Mood Cotton Tail Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me) Mood Indigo Take the 'a' Train In a Mellow Tone Come Sunday Disc 3 Caravan Candy Clark's Expedition Trumpet Mouthpiece Blues Phalanges Blues for Daddy: O'S Jazz Patio Blues Basin Street Blues Daylight Express Taking a Chance on Love In Orbit One Foot in the Gutter Trust in Me Let's Cool One Pea: Eye Argentia Moonlight Fiesta Buck's Business Very Near Blue Flugelin' the Blues Disc 4 Mili: Terry The Swinging Chemise My Heart Belongs to Daddy Blues for Etta Top 'N' Bottom 127 A Sunday of Love Mardi Gras Waltz Blues for the Champ of Champs Clark's Bars Serenade to a Bus Seat Pannonica No.2 Lonely One Satin Doll Born to Clark Sr. and Mary Terry on 14th December 1920 in St. Louis, MO, Clark Terry Jr. attended Vashon High School and began playing the valve trombone at an early age. In fact, Terry had already turned professional by the early 1940s, playing the local jazz clubs. Having served as a bandsman at the Great Lakes Naval Training Centre between 1942 and 1945, Clark quickly returned to his first passion and began to establish his prominence on the local scene. He started by joining the groups of Charlie Barnett in 1947, Count Basie between 1948 and 1951, and Duke Ellington between 1951 and 1959, where he earned himself a good reputation through his stylistic flexibility, technical skill and famed sense of humour. It was towards the middle of the decade that Terry began recording his first album as co-leader. Although initially brought in to contribute to Dinah Washington's Dinah Jams, the same session also produced Jam Session, which was led by the triumvirate of Clark Terry with fellow players Clifford Brown and Maynard Ferguson. Despite his eight-year dedication to Ellington's band, Clark Terry still managed to release a considerable number of his own records as bandleader throughout the decade. These would include such classics as Serenade to a Bus Seat, In Orbit - which featured the sublime piano playing of Thelonious Monk - and Top And Bottom Brass, when the Clark Terry Quintet were joined by jazz tuba player Don Butterfield. Terry informally nurtured the talents of a young Miles Davis and Quincy Jones during this time, and would be repaid when the latter invited him to join the touring production of Free And Easy in 1959, for which Jones was musical director. Terry would truly break internationally at the turn of the decade when, in 1960, he was employed by the National Broadcasting Company. He would be the first African American staff musician to be employed by NBC, and to appear on any major U.S. network when he joined The Tonight Show Band in 1962. Price: $35.98 |