{"id":3176,"date":"2011-12-11T22:24:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T06:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2011-12-11T22:24:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T06:24:22","slug":"the-news-about-clark-terry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/12\/the-news-about-clark-terry\/","title":{"rendered":"The News About Clark Terry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/clarkterry23-150x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/clarkterry23-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"clarkterry23-150x150\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/clarkterry23-150x150.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/clarkterry23-150x150-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/clarkterry23-150x150-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a>The news of Clark Terry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest setback has raced through the jazz community and much of the wider world. The trumpet and flugelhorn hero, whose 91st birthday will be next Wednesday, has been suffering from diabetes. The disease has seriously affected his eyesight. Last week it led to the amputation of a leg. Reports are that he is recuperating well and is in good spirits. On his recently established blog, a message from CT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wife Gwen includes this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Clark talked with me about the decision that he was facing, he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry. Just because you lose your leg, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll lose your life.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The blog has a <a href=\"http:\/\/clarkterry.com\/#\/guestbook\"target=\"_blank\">guestbook page<\/a> on which well-wishers are encouraged to send him notes that Gwen will read to him. The blog\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s audio background begins with Clark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s original \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mumbles\u00e2\u20ac\u009d recording with the Oscar Peterson Trio and continues with samples from his discography. <\/p>\n<p>My friendship with CT goes back to 1969, when we became acquainted over plates of jambalaya on a park bench in Jackson Square in New Orleans. Shortly after, he volunteered to get me the factory price on a Clark Terry model Olds flugelhorn like the one he plays in the video below. Unfortunately, the horn did not come equipped with a CT sound-alike button. Here he is with his quartet in 1985 at the Club Montmarte in Copenhagen, sounding like no one else. Duke Jordan is the pianist, Jimmy Woode the bassist, Svend Norregaard the drummer. The tune is one of CT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favorites by his former boss, Duke Ellington.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6NslSY9mUrM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>I admire Clark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unquenchable spirit. I wish him a happy birthday and a speedy recovery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news of Clark Terry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest setback has raced through the jazz community and much of the wider world. The trumpet and flugelhorn hero, whose 91st birthday will be next Wednesday, has been suffering from diabetes. The disease has seriously affected his eyesight. Last week it led to the amputation of a leg. Reports are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}