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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 scenes of jazz history as he introduces scores of legendary greats--Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Doc…
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5 editions- Other · English · 2016Audible Studios on Brilliance · 9781522684800
- Other · English · 2015University of California Press · 344 pages · 9780520287518
- Other · English · 2011University of California Press · 368 pages · 9781283278256
- Other · English · 2011University of California Press · 322 pages · 9780520268463
- Other · English · 2011University of California Press · 344 pages · 9780520949782
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