Clark Terry
trumpet, flugelhorn
Trumpeter and jazz educator; Barry planned to give him a “Barry”, the award Barry handed out at his annual Symphony Space concert to people who had been good for jazz.
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What Barry says
At his yearly Symphony Space concert Barry gives his own award, a “Barry”, to people who have been good for jazz, his answer to the Grammy, Emmy and Oscar. In a JazzTimes profile published in 1998, he says this year’s will go to Clark Terry.
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In the oral history the interviewer reads out later NEA Jazz Masters, Clark Terry among them. Barry does not comment on Terry himself, but wonders how he got his own award so early, in 1989, ahead of all those people, and says he is glad he did.
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In his own words
This year I’m gonna give one to Clark Terry
Every mention
2 moments in the recordings, 0 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Artists House Master Class Barry Harris - Introduction by Gary Giddins
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Someone else
Gary Giddins recalls Terry’s dry joke to the pianist of a local pickup trio, on a gig with Bob Brookmeyer.
ManagersPro.com “Barry Harris talks about as a mentor to developing pianists.”
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Someone else
The same Giddins story in another upload, told to explain how touring stars came to hear Barry in Detroit.
In the interviews and notes
Barry tells Bill Milkowski that this year’s “Barry”, his own prize for people who have been good for jazz, will go to Clark Terry; the article names Jimmy Heath, Walter Bishop Jr., Benny Powell, Milt Hinton and John Bunch as earlier holders.
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Milkowski explains the choice: Terry has given himself to jazz and to teaching it with rare generosity, a devotion he thinks only Barry himself might match.
When the interviewer names Clark Terry among the Jazz Masters honoured after him, Barry is puzzled that his own award came as early as 1989.
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De Lima names Clark Terry, alongside Barry, Lee Konitz, Mary Lou Williams and others, as what he would call a true jazz specialist in terms of teaching.