Biography
His career as both leader and sideman with more than three hundred recordings demonstrates that he is one of the most prolific luminaries in jazz. Clark composed more than two hundred jazz songs and performed for seven U.S. Presidents.
Clark's discography reads like a "Who's Who In Jazz," with personnel that includes great jazz artists such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Quincy Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Ben Webster, Charlie Barnet, Doc Severinsen, Ray Charles, Billy Strayhorn, Eddie Vinson, Dexter Gordon, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Coleman Hawkins, Zoot Sims, Wes Montgomery, Milt Jackson, Bob Brookmeyer, Jon Faddis, Cecil Taylor and Dianne Reeves.
He also has several recordings with major groups including The London Symphony Orchestra, The Dutch Metropole Orchestra, The Duke Ellington Orchestra and The Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Hundreds of high school and college ensembles, his own duos, trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, octets, and two big bands; Clark Terry's Big Bad Band and Clark Terry's Young Titans of Jazz.

Significant Jazz Contributions
"Clark Terry," writes Chuck Berg, "is one of contemporary music's great innovators, and justly celebrated for his great technical virtuosity, swinging lyricism, and impeccable good taste. Combining these with the gifts of a great dramatist, Clark is a master storyteller whose spellbinding musical 'tales' leave audiences thrilled and always awaiting more. [1]

What Other People Say
Terry has received several awards and recognition in his career, most notably:

He was inducted into the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Hall of Fame in 1991.
He received a Grammy Award, two Grammy certificates, three Grammy nominations
Received sixteen honorary doctorates
Awarded keys to several cities
Terry was a Jazz Ambassador for U.S. State Department tours in the Middle East and Africa.
He was knighted in Germany
Terry is a recipient of the French Order of Arts and Letters.
Sat for a life-sized wax figure for the Black World History Museum in St. Louis.
In 1996, Terry was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
In 2005 he was voted Trumpeter of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association. Books
Clark Terry's recordings as a leader.
Clark Terry has recently made a guest appearance at the Wayne Jazz Festival, performing with many middle school Jazz Ensembles and William Patterson University's Jazz Ensemble.

Clark Terry (Polygram, 1954)
Clark Terry with Quentin Jackson/Martial Solal/Kenny Clarke (Disques Swing, 1955)
Introducing Clark Terry (EmArcy, 1955)
Swahili (EmArcy, 1955)
Serenade to a Bus Seat (Riverside/OJC, 1957)
Duke with a Difference (Riverside/OJC, 1957)
Clark Terry Quartet with Thelonious Monk (Jazzland, 1958)
In Orbit (Riverside/OJC, 1958)
Out on a Limb with Clark Terry (Argo, 1958)
Top and Bottom Brass (Riverside/OJC, 1959)
Paris (1960) (Swing, 1960)
Color Changes (Candid, 1960)
Everything's Mellow (Prestige, 1961)
Mellow Moods (Prestige, 1961)
All American (Prestige, 1962)
Plays the Jazz Version of "All American" (Moodsville, 1962)
The Night Life (Mood, 1962)
Clark Terry & Bob Brookmeyer (Verve, 1962)
More (Cameo, 1963)
Tread Ye Lightly (Cameo, 1963)
What Makes Sammy Swing (20th Century, 1963)
The Happy Horns of Clark Terry (GRP/Impulse!, 1964)
The Power of Positive Swinging (Mainstream, 1964)
Live 1964 (Emerald, 1964)
Quintet (Mainstream, 1964)
Tonight (Mainstream, 1964)
Clark Terry Tonight (Mainstream, 1964)
Oscar Peterson Trio with Clark Terry (Mercury, 1964)
Spanish Rice (Impulse!, 1966)
Gingerbread Men (Mainstream, 1966)
Mumbles (Mainstream, 1966)
Angyumaluma Bongliddleany Nannyany Awhan Yi! (Mainstream, 1966)
It's What's Happenin' (Impulse!, 1967)
Music in the Garden (Jazz Heritage, 1968)
At the Montreux Jazz Festival (Polydor, 1969)
Live on 57th Street (Big Bear, 1969)
Big B-A-D Band In Concert, Live 1970... (EToile, 1970)
Live at the Wichita Jazz Festival (Vanguard, 1974)
Clark Terry and His Jolly Giants (Vanguard, 1975)
Live at the Wichita Jazz Festival (Vanguard, 1975)
Clark Terry's Big B-A-D Band Live at Buddy's... (Vanguard, 1976)
Clark Terry's Big B-A-D Band Live at Buddy's... (Vanguard, 1976)
Live at the Jazz House (Pausa, 1976)
Wham (BASF, 1976)
Squeeze Me (Chiaroscuro, 1976)
The Globetrotter (Vanguard, 1977)
Out of Nowhere (Bingow, 1978)
Brahms Lullabye (Amplitude, 1978)
Funk Dumplin's (Matrix, 1978)
Clark After Dark (MPS, 1978)
Mother______! Mother______! (Pablo, 1979)
Ain't Misbehavin' (Pablo, 1979)
Live in Chicago, Vol. 1 (Monad, 1979)
Live in Chicago, Vol. 2 (Monad, 1979)
Memories of Duke (Pablo/OJC, 1980)
Yes, the Blues (Pablo/OJC, 1981)
To Duke and Basie (Rhino, 1986)
Jive at Five (Enja, 1986)
Metropole Orchestra (Mons, 1988)
Portraits (Chesky, 1988)
The Clark Terry Spacemen (Chiaroscuro, 1989)
Locksmith Blues (Concord Jazz, 1989)
Having Fun (Delos, 1990)
Live at the Village Gate (Chesky, 1990)
Live at the Village Gate: Second Set (Chesky, 1990)
What a Wonderful World: For Lou (Red Baron, 1993)
Shades of Blues (Challenge, 1994)
Remember the Time (Mons, 1994)
With Pee Wee Claybrook & Swing Fever (D' Note, 1995)
Top and Bottom Brass (Chiaroscuro, 1995)
Reunion (D'Note, 1995)
Express (Reference, 1995)
Good Things in Life (Mons, 1996)
Ow (E.J., 1996)
Alternate Blues (Analogue, 1996)
Daylight Express (GRP, 1998)
Ritter der Ronneburg, 1998 (Mons, 1998)
Living Worship Let's Worship (Newport, 1999)
One on One (Chesky, 2000)
A Jazz Symphony (Centaur, 2000)
Herr Ober: Live at Birdland Neuburg (Nagel-Heyer, 2001)
Live on QE2 (Chiaroscuro, 2001)
Jazz Matinee (Hanssler, 2001)
The Hymn (Candid, 2001)
Clark Terry and His Orchestra Featuring Paul... (Storyville, 2002)
Live in Concert (Image, 2002)
Flutin' and Fluglin (Past Perfect, 2002)
Friendship (Columbia, 2002)
Live! At Buddy's Place (Universe, 2003)
Clark Terry (Emarcy, 2003)
Live at Montmarte June 1975 (Storyville, 2003)
George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess (A440 Music Group, 2004)
Live at Marian's with the Terry's Young Titan's of Jazz (Chiaroscuro, 2005)