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Series
North Texas lives of musicians volume no. 6
Publisher
University of North Texas
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where jazz could be heard everywhere, to the smoke-filled small clubs and carnivals across the Jim Crow South where he got his start, and on to worldwide acclaim. Terry takes us behind the...