Clark Terry on Straight No Chaser

[bagsgroove1954]

I've got the whole video in my favourites, check it out it's really amazing.

[57dogsbody]

Clark was also ambidextrous on top of all his other talents.

[bdransf1]

This is my favorite jazz clip on YouTube. Whoever is playing bass, man, that guy is killing it too...

[bagsgroove1954]

@bdransf1 The bassists name is Rick Laird.

[ox092]

Clark really showed the capabilities of the Flugel horn that it can be played in fast and loud music. Today, most jazz musicians use it for soft and melodic songs. But not Clark Terry! he was a pioneer to the instrument!

[woolfnotes]

That's Allan Ganley back there on drums. Clip from BBC Jazz 625

[gratzr]

Heard Clark Terry when I was 12. That sound made me become a musician. I would love to hear the next soloist coming up in the video - Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone. Better search for that.

[jflat5030]

Thank God for Clark Terry!! The world wouldn't be the same had he not been born!!

Long Live CT!!!!!

[tomcat2]

Just saw CT at UMSL Touhill....at 90 yrs, the guy still has it. Thank God for such talent.

[48zila]

One of the greatest jazz trumpeters in the world.Unically style and sound.

[haximoto]

Have shared the stage a couple of times with CT. He is the embodiment of improvisational trumet playing that also makes sense!

[jstrptm]

Easy to recognize how Wynton was influenced by him, you can see in his posture, even in his face movements, a great master indeed!!!

[Arborwaychet]

Timelessly Cool!!! After all these years his concept remains unique and his technique unbelievable ... what an incredible player

[pegrueneis]

bass is so cool- yeah!

[stalzz]

I'm glad that some 16 year olds like Jazz! Bravo!

[logalogalog]

@stalzz This 23 year old loves jazz too.

[tankthetuba]

I have been fortunate enough to meet the man himself on a few occasions. A great musician and a true gentleman.

[valentynesuite]

great sound clark

[jorymil]

Just saw Bob Brookmeyer in the background there--the Clark Terry/Bob Brookmeyer Quintet from the early 60s?

[ferdifeather]

thinking of getting flugelhorn again soon :-D Clark Terry my inspiration

[pricelesspistola321]

perfect. that's all you can say about this man's musicianship.

[mrfortes]

wow



[Mayelacuriosa]

Sublime!

[ogauge47]

Any idea on what flugel he recorded on?

[lenasmall]

simplismente adoro

[InBy9OutBy5]

That sure does swing.

[andrum86]

Buon Giooorno papà !

[DHGroove]

Whatta badass, so smooth while playing those killer lines.

[wolfifth]

this is my favorite

[anonymousrelease]

wicked solo!

[Saxman11290]

nothing like a few swinging choruses of a blues to put you in a good mood!

[tubafrogger]

Mr.Kasperagnas, the Bassplayer is Rick Laird

[fighterace0]

circular breathing? Crazy with the cheeks. That's another type of control!

[kasperagnas]

Who is the bass player?

[GassyMaskz]

I was thinking the exact same question, one hell of a sound.

[sliderman7]

Everyone loves CT, this is from a BBC "Jazz 625" from the early sixties, with Alan Ganley on Drums.

[crownisbest]

man he is just great all of that is just amazing most people won't come close to his knowledge of jazz improv in a lifetime Clark is great and one of my heros

[E72192]

his semen is all over the chord changes

[TnsuTuba13]

00:22-00:26!!!! outstanding jazz lick

[rayraypatrick1]

yea he did have the breathing down..

[deepkeel65]

Chops. Sense of humor. Tone. A circular breathing monster. And a national treasure.

[skamike2000]

Does know where to find this video footage? Also there is a great performance of Stardust at this same concert. I cannot find any DVDs or anything.

[SpookysOwner1]

EPIC!

[kdkn92]

Clark Terry=best jazz soloist ever.

[veepeepeejee]

No, YOU are the best soloist ever.

[kdkn92]

@veepeepeejee WTF????

[paulbloomusic]

phenomenal. too bad clark terry gets overlooked too often in the list of great trumpet players

[ballsrburning]

100% agree, very underated player truly deserves to be seen as one of the greatest, he easily has the best tone in my opinion.

[kevmars26]

very good

[slowduck123]

SOOOOOO good

[pjhirsch]

Love Clark. Expressive.That's Bobby Brookmeyer standing and watching. Anyone able to post anything from "Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments?" Basically the Gerry Mulligan band fronted by Bobby with lots of great solos by Clark Terry.

[halo3face]

i have to learn how he does that triple tonging thing at 0:41. it's fucking insane!!! and he looks so relaxed!

[NYCBG]

the king of flugel horn!

[paulplaystheguitar]

that's some tight tonguing at 0:41

[OscarPetersonFan]

Clark is my fav

[bradythrun]

My uncle studied under Clark Terry.

[jam0to9]

Dizzy and other were great but for pure creative interpretation on the horn there were none better. Match anyone note for note, phrase for phrase and I betcha a million you will say WOW after hearing Clark's imagination and phrasing choices. He is pure gold on the horn that I pattern after today.

[jam0to9]

It is a shame that people don't know the creativeness and briiliance of this my favorite trumpeter. Not trying to hate on Miles or Armstrong and the like but everytime people ask me (as 1st chair T-pet in high school and college) who my favorite is and I say Clark T, I get a "who is that". What a shame.

[deanasimms]

I am forever grateful for Clark being a wonderful inspiration in my life. He explained to me nearly 15 years ago when I met him the 1st time in Springfield, Ohio on how to circular breathe on the trumpet.And now I'm slammin it!

[howardclegg]

Wow, Funny you said that about the circulatory breathing...he did the same thing for me back in 74 in Estherville Iowa.

[Mikerty391]

I wish my friends could appreciate jazz, I'm 16 and i love jazz.

Terry is incredible :]

[mecjazz]

Dude im in the same boat. where are u from? do you play any instruments?

[xdivinebladex]

they'll understand soon

[Gcman928]

yeah i love jazz and im 16 but many of my friends don't appreciate what they call "old music".

[runeskyler]

Exact same situation, my friends don't like Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Arturo Sandoval, Freddie Hubbard and on and on. It makes me mad that they think Metallica is more talented

[inwalkedcharlie]

jazz sucks

[vortexsurferrosa]

Then don't watch it, and leave us who DO love jazz, alone.

[WFurrer91]

Go away, if you don't like it, that's your own opinion, I don't know why you're watching this video anyway if you don't like Jazz.

[kidfromredbank]

so does you mother Charlie.

[halo3face]

i'm 17 and i wish more of my friends understood jazz like i do. i'm lucky that i have a few friends that can appreciate it

[hommefriday]

@Mikerty391 Wonderful young man - you have so many moments of joy awaiting you. When i was your age we didn't have these wonderful young musicians creating great new sounds. Enjoy young man

[Mikerty391]

@hommefriday

I'm just thankful that I get to live in the time of youtube. When else could one type in the name of any artist and see them live? It's truly incredible. Clark Terry is still one of my favorite trumpet players.

[DrDanReinstein]

@Mikerty391 You keep listening.... 'hearing' jazz is a gift: dont worry about the others... Dr Dan

[95Galante]

@Mikerty391 I feal the same - I'm 14

[EveryonesFavNinja]

That's some awesome double-tonguing.

[sherwelthlangley]

I believe he was doodle-tonguing. One of the few great trumpeters that could do it.

[trembleweeds]

I don't mean to put you down but from what I've been told doodle-tonguing is when trumpet players articulate the upbeat and slur it into the downbeat, making their playing sound very uniform and legato.

What Clark Terry could do that many trumpet players couldn't is make his double tonguing sound like legato, incredible.

[Phronesis27]

doodle tounging is actually a little more complex. It involvles tounging a series of syllables that come from the word doodle. It is especially useful in trombone playing, thus it's name being coined by the modern trombonist Bob McChesney.

[trembleweeds]

O ok, I was told doodle tonguing was when you just tongue the upbeat into the downbeat. That's the "doodle tonguing" when applying to trumpet soloing (or so I'm told), thanks for the info.

[noahapples]

This is totally great. Does anybody have the rest of this session on video? I would really love to see it!

[greencouch18]

You wasted my time - 53 seconds? WTF!

[jaschaheifetz]

Imbecile.

[jesemus33]

stupid pig

[daveyboygee]

Great solo and I love Clark Terry. I've been listening to his gingerbread men album since before I was like 8 because my dad played it until it wore out in the late 90's. Those are some of the best solos on a flugelhorn bar none.

I only wish I could've heard the follow up solo by Bob Brookmeier, Clark's counterpart getting ready on the valve trombone in the background, and equally talented.

[NAVYMU1RET]

TRUMPET FREAK...No one plays like him and he is very giving in his knowledge. The Good Lord broke the mold when He made Clark Terry.

[Soulnik]

♫♫♫♫♫

[trumpetz09]

he's one bad dude man. I love his playing so much it's insane.

[PaulMurphyJazzDrum]

i love to listen as much as i love to play.

paul.

[rutboberg]

Amazing!!

[iluvsystemofadown]

zzzzzzzz

[jesemus33]

go to sleep on your mom ass

[mhbsurf]

TERRY, Clark

BROOKMEYER, Bob

HOLLOWAY, Laurie

GANLEY, Allan

LAIRD, Rick

Jazz 625 a great series in the 60's.

[christophmb]

Who else is playing in the band with Clark?

[mikeos1]

The late Allan Ganley on drums.

[runninwiems]

This is my favorite solo of all time. and def. clark terry's best in my book. and hes had a lot of fantastic solos

[RxBandits9]

i get to see clark terry play this saturday at a jazz festival.

[thereisnospoon26]

This solo is literally perfect. I know there's no such thing as perfect, but Clark packed this solo with so much flavor

[Zacktpt]

Oh and I'm sorry I thumbs downed your comment orlando. Misclick!

[orlando019]

No lie I work at the airport and I pushed his wheel chair. I swear on my grave

[Zacktpt]

I believe you and I hope you're not swearing on your grave because you're still with us! I got to talk with him last night at the blue note briefly. He's playing there all week, check it out! My friend is helping him get around and whatnot. Beautiful man and a beautiful musician!

[whamfan87]

Clark Terry is straight class. Thats it...something you rarely see these days. Class. Thanks for the post.

[gazalaza]

clark, what a legend! it's all about the swing!

[trumpetguy81]

Such a tasteful musician. It's all about tone, and he manages to produce such a beautiful sound on just about every note he plays. Clifford Brown was the same, perfectly centred beautiful sounding notes no matter in what passage or speed they were played. Not many others have been able to do this.

[Korean121]

wow how do u tounge like that!

[IndependentZero]

It's called double tonging and triple tonging

[rtcprtcp]

Clark Terry actually doodle tongues, which is more common as a trombone technique.

So does Randy Brecker.

[Mhutbeggs]

Actually, most of Clark Terry's tonguing is single tonguing, probably including the triplet passage. He only doodles when absolutely necessary.

[12345a]

My idol!

[mastersgta1]

at 00:22, those 1st-valve jumps are my favorite! He does a lot of that in his other solos too. Great player!

[queekers]

Arguably the best jazz trumpet player EVER

[trane1959]

ohh, don't cut off brookmeyer, get the rest of this clip on there

[Monkeylobber111]

Clark Terry has been there with the greats and it certainly shows. He might possible the last peice that we still have of the bebop wisdom given by Diz and Bird and stit and others! Love the flugel sound too!!!!

[onthecorner1978]

I think that the best trumpet solo i have ever heard is a Clarck terry's in the track OFF MINOR in the cd Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane, and the second most beutifull trumpet solo is another Clarck Terry's, in Brillant Corners a cd of Thelonius Monk the song is the first....he's a Giant

[Houtems]

He's simply the best Jazz Flugelhorn player ever!

[eliko]

The man sure makes it look easy...