Cyril Posted December 14, 2007 Report Posted December 14, 2007 Happy 87th Birthday to Clark Terry!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbiBaVe6I24 Clark Terry(fh),James Moody(ts),Jimmy McGriff(org),George Mraz(b),Grady Tate(ds) Quote
Free For All Posted December 14, 2007 Report Posted December 14, 2007 Clark is one of my favorites. I've seen him so many times going back to my high school days. One of the most distinctive sounds of all. Let's see- the Mumbles punchlines over the years: "Watergate", "Where's the beef?", what were some of the others? And his current mantra: "The Golden Years SUCK!" Happy Birthday Clark! Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 14, 2007 Report Posted December 14, 2007 Waiting for Clem... MG Quote
DukeCity Posted December 14, 2007 Report Posted December 14, 2007 Happy Birthday, CT!! Just in case clem can't bring himself to look at this thread, here's his earlier tribute: ODE TO MUMBLES (excerpt) clark terry fucked my wife clark terry knocked up my daughter clark terry is a son of a bitch clark terry doesn't shovel the sidewalk clark terry is a lousy lay clark terry doesn't swallow clark terry killed kennedy clark terry killed king clark terry burned my toast clark terry spilled my coffee clark terry is a tease clark terry is a state of mind clark terry street is a dead end clark terry dolls aren't safe for children clark terry day is always a washout clark terry & that fucking leafblower again-- goddamnit! clark terry voted for nixon clark terry voted for reagan clark terry voted for bush-- four times! clark terry forgot the words to "i remember april" -- Ralph J. Gleason Quote
sidewinder Posted December 14, 2007 Report Posted December 14, 2007 Happy Birthday, Clark Terry ! Some 'Big Bad Band' going on later. Quote
DukeCity Posted December 14, 2007 Report Posted December 14, 2007 Happy Birthday, Clark Terry ! Some 'Big Bad Band' going on later. "Live at the Wichita Jazz Festival"? Clark: "Next we'd like to feature the saxophone section a capella. And that means 'with no clothes on'." Quote
Lazaro Vega Posted December 14, 2007 Report Posted December 14, 2007 (edited) "The power of positive swinging." "Hawg Jaws." "Bayside Cookout." Perfect as "Puck." He's using a lot of the third valve by itself in that video. Edited December 14, 2007 by Lazaro Vega Quote
catesta Posted December 14, 2007 Report Posted December 14, 2007 A young Clark Terry can be seen HERE at the end of the clip with Basie. “Well, I’m too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I’m just gon’ keep playin’” Happy Birthday! Quote
Guest Bill Barton Posted December 14, 2007 Report Posted December 14, 2007 Happy Birthday to one of the all-time greats. Quote
Larry Kart Posted December 14, 2007 Report Posted December 14, 2007 Actually, I once demurred in print about what seemed to me to be Terry's tendency to coast/offer up strings of cliches (albeit ones that he himself had minted) -- this response based on hearing Terry's then annual visits (in the early to mid-1980s) to the Jazz Showcase. Response to the review was interesting -- Terry went on a local jazz radio show hosted by Black activist Russell Meeks, and with Meeks cheering him on, and perhaps stoking him up beforehand, Terry said at some length and with much heat that the motive behind my lying review must have been racism. The other shoe (or another shoe) dropped next year, when Terry was paired by Joe Segal with Al Cohn (in previous years IIRC Terry performed as the sole horn or with, perhaps on one occasion, Red Holloway). In any case, Cohn at that time was playing with great intensity, and with that going on beside him, Terry played with a fire and creativity that I hadn't heard from him for some time -- both in person and on record. Lord knows what Terry thought if and when he read the enthusiastic review in the paper the next day. Probably he assumed that it was written by a now-cowed racist. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 14, 2007 Report Posted December 14, 2007 Yes - perhaps he's a closet fan MG Quote
marcello Posted December 14, 2007 Report Posted December 14, 2007 (edited) Clark knows how to have a good time! Edited December 15, 2007 by marcello Quote
Guest Bill Barton Posted December 15, 2007 Report Posted December 15, 2007 Thanks for that cool photo, Tom! Quote
DukeCity Posted December 15, 2007 Report Posted December 15, 2007 Clark knows how to have a good time! How can you not have a good time when you're wearing white shoes? Quote
marcello Posted December 15, 2007 Report Posted December 15, 2007 Thanks. Here's another with him and Ernie Wilkins. Quote
AllenLowe Posted December 16, 2007 Report Posted December 16, 2007 Terry can play, but I'm with Larry on this issue of coasting and shallowness - and it ain't race, as Larry knows - about 25 years ago I ran into a well known (African American) pianist on the street in front of a club where he was playing with Terry's group - I asked him how he liked the gig - he said: "He can play when he wants to, but he's still doing that damn 'Secret Love.' " Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 16, 2007 Report Posted December 16, 2007 Clark knows how to have a good time! How can you not have a good time when you're wearing white shoes? When you're playing cricket and losing. MG Quote
Christiern Posted December 16, 2007 Report Posted December 16, 2007 Back in my old Canterbury school days, I was called upon to play cricket a couple of times--it was no fun, even when we won. Quote
JSngry Posted December 16, 2007 Report Posted December 16, 2007 Hardly a day goes by that I don't think about cricket! (well, ok, "a day" is a figure of speech, and like the biblical usage, could easily mean millions of years, and "think about", well..not consciously, but who knows what really goes on in the subconscious mind, and "cricket" is probably a euphemism for everything that falls into my personal "whatever..." category, but still, it's the thought that counts, right?) Quote
paul secor Posted December 16, 2007 Report Posted December 16, 2007 When I was a teenager, one of the first jazz records I bought was Clark Terry's Duke with a Difference. I still listen to it and I thank Clark Terry for helping to introduce me to this music. Quote
Larry Kart Posted December 17, 2007 Report Posted December 17, 2007 Haven't listened to it for a long time, but one of my favorite Terry recordings is one of his earliest as a leader - -"Swahili" (EmArcy), from 1955, with a formidable lineup: Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Oscar Pettiford, Cecil Payne, and Jimmy Cleveland. IIRC, that rhythm section kicked butt. Also, with Blakey rumbling underneath, on the title track Terry's variation on Rex Stewart's half-valve effects sounded seriously ominous.Vintage Quincy Jones charts, too -- though vintage Quincy would have have a short season IMO. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted December 17, 2007 Report Posted December 17, 2007 Happy Birthday, CT!! Just in case clem can't bring himself to look at this thread, here's his earlier tribute: ODE TO MUMBLES (excerpt) clark terry fucked my wife clark terry knocked up my daughter clark terry is a son of a bitch clark terry doesn't shovel the sidewalk clark terry is a lousy lay clark terry doesn't swallow clark terry killed kennedy clark terry killed king clark terry burned my toast clark terry spilled my coffee clark terry is a tease clark terry is a state of mind clark terry street is a dead end clark terry dolls aren't safe for children clark terry day is always a washout clark terry & that fucking leafblower again-- goddamnit! clark terry voted for nixon clark terry voted for reagan clark terry voted for bush-- four times! clark terry forgot the words to "i remember april" -- Ralph J. Gleason I still get a kick out of this, gentleman that I am... Quote
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