He inspired Miles Davis, was Quincy Jones’s fist teacher, played with Count Basie and Duke Ellington and Oscar Petersen, and had a joyful sound on trumpet. He was also teacher and mentor to thousands of music students.
One of those students, Dianne Reeves, joins Ashley Kahn and trumpeter Theo Croker to speak about Clark Terry, his inflence, play examples of Terry’s music, and show excerpts from Keep On Keepin’ On, the documentary about Clark that Quincy Jones produced last year.
