Died On This Date (February 21, 2015) Clark Terry / American Jazz Great
themusicsover Clark Terry
December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015
Clark Terry was an American jazz trumpeter who is widely considered one of the most influential and popular jazz musicians of his time. Terry launched his career during the early ’40s, just in time to serve in the US Navy Band during World War II. After his discharge, Terry went on to perform with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and later, Quincy Jones, among others, as well as leading his own bands. As one of the most recorded artists jazz music has ever known, Terry appeared on nearly 1000 known recordings. Throughout his career, he wrote over 200 jazz songs, performed for seven US Presidents, and put on several jazz festivals and jazz camps. In 1991 he was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award, and in 2010, he became one of only five trumpet players to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. A lifetime student of jazz as well as a respected educator, Clark held sixteen honorary doctorates. He was even knighted in Germany. Clark Terry was 94 when he passed away on February 21, 2015.
What You Should Own
As a driving force of the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson band, Ed Shaughnessy was one of the most famous drummer in America, if not the world, for the better part of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. Specializing in swing and bebop, Shaughnessy cut his teeth in New York City during the 40s playing with the likes of 
Born into a musical family in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Bucky Adams was just a child when he at first picked up the trumpet. And when he was just 11, he played for the Queen of England during a visit to Canada. In those early years, Adams played the trumpet alongside his father, but when the trumpet could no longer keep him, he switched to the sax. By the 1950s, Adams began fronting his own bands, and over the next three decades entertained audiences far and wide with the Rockin’ Rebels, Club Unusual, Generations, and Basin St. Trio, with whom he made his first recordings. Throughout his long career, Adams played with or for such luminaries as 
Maria Hawkins was a popular jazz vocalist who began her career singing for the likes of 
Frank Foster was a jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger who is most often associated with 
