The jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, with a prolific career that included seven decades, died aged 94, announced on Sunday the musician’s wife on the official website.
“The our dear Terry Clark joined the band to paradise, which sing and play with the angels. He left us in peace, surrounded his family, his students and his friends, “wrote Gwen Terry.
The trumpeter, who suffered from diabetes, had been hospitalized in the past 13 an establishment of health care, informed the magazine in the world of Variety show.
Born in Saint-Louis (Missouri) in 1920, the musician started playing trumpet in adolescence. He played in bands in the US Navy during World War II and later became one of the most respected jazz trumpeters in the world.
Clark Terry stood out both as a soloist and as an escort It has integrated two of the most prestigious jazz orchestras in history, Count Basie and Duke Ellington.
He played with great names of the music as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollings, Ray Charles or Quincy Jones. He also collaborated with the ‘king of the trumpet’, Louis Armstrong, and was a mentor to another legend of this instrument, Miles Davis.
Terry participated in more than 900 recording sessions and earned over 250 awards, including a Grammy for his career.
Later gave music lessons in high schools and universities.
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