Clark Terry Musical artist

Clark Terry (born December 14, 1920) is an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948–1951), Duke Ellington (1951–1959) and Quincy Jones (1960). Terry's career in jazz spans more than seventy years and he is one of the most recorded of jazz musicians.

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Birth date	December 14, 1920
Birth place	Missouri , St. Louis , United States

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Musical artist

Career started	1940
associated musical artist	Charles Mingus Oscar Peterson Oliver Nelson Dizzy Gillespie Duke Ellington Count Basie J. J. Johnson Blue Mitchell Bob Brookmeyer Charlie Barnet Clifford Brown Eddie Lockjaw Davis Milt Jackson Quincy Jones Yusef Lateef Lalo Schifrin Billy Taylor
Background	Non vocal instrumentalist
genre	Jazz Bebop Swing (jazz performance style) Hard bop
instrument	Flugelhorn Trumpet
record label	Pablo Impulse! Records Mainstream Prestige Records Candid Records