Making music with a legend

Thursday, April 24, 2003

Clark Terry is 82 years old and just getting back into playing shape after a fight with cancer that began a year and a half ago. An alumnus of the Basie, Ellington and Tonight Show bands, he is an encyclopedia of knowledge about 20th century American jazz. He also is one of the best musicians who ever picked up a trumpet.

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