Clark Terry Plays the Jazz Version of All American

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Clark Terry Plays the Jazz Version of All American
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Studio album by Clark Terry
Released 1962
Recorded May 11 & 15, 1962
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length32:12
Label Moodsville
MVLP 26
Clark Terry chronology
Everything's Mellow
(1961)		Clark Terry Plays the Jazz Version of All American
(1962)		 Back in Bean's Bag
(1962)

Clark Terry Plays the Jazz Version of All American is an album by trumpeter Clark Terry featuring performances of music from the Broadway musical, All American recorded in 1962 and originally released on the Moodsville label. [1] [2]

Clark Terry American swing and bebop musician

Clark Virgil Terry Jr. was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, composer, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.

<i>All American</i> (musical) musical

All American is a musical with a book by Mel Brooks, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. Based on the Robert Lewis Taylor 1950 novel Professor Fodorski, it is set on the campus of the fictional Southern Baptist Institute of Technology: the worlds of science and sports collide when the principles of engineering are applied to football strategies, and football strategies are used to teach the principles of engineering. The techniques of a Hungarian immigrant, Professor Fodorski, prove to be successful, resulting in a winning team, and he finds himself the target of a Madison Avenue ad man who wants to exploit his new-found fame.

Prestige Records American jazz record label

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under subsidiaries. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was later absorbed by Concord.

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Reception

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Allmusic rated the album with three stars. [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse

  1. "What a Country" - 4:22
  2. "Same Language" - 4:05
  3. "If I Were You" - 5:00
  4. "I've Just Seen Her" - 3:50
  5. "Once upon a Time" - 2:20
  6. "Nightlife" - 4:34
  7. "It's Fun to Think" - 5:06
  8. "The Fight Song" - 3:45

Personnel

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Flugelhorn Brass musical instrument

The flugelhorn is a brass instrument that is usually pitched in B♭ but occasionally found in C. It resembles a trumpet, and the tube has the same length but a wider, conical bore. A type of valved bugle, the flugelhorn was developed in Germany from a traditional English valveless bugle, with the first version sold by Heinrich Stölzel in Berlin in 1828. The valved bugle provided Adolphe Sax with the inspiration for his B♭ soprano (contralto) saxhorns, on which the modern-day flugelhorn is modeled.

Trombone Type of brass instrument

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. As on all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. Nearly all trombones have a telescoping slide mechanism that varies the length of the instrument to change the pitch. Many modern trombone models also use a valve attachment to lower the pitch of the instrument. Variants such as the valve trombone and superbone have three valves similar to those on the trumpet.

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References

  1. ↑ Moodsville Records discography accessed March 9, 2015
  2. ↑ Lord, T., Clark Terry Discography, accessed March 9, 2015
  3. 1 2 Allmusic listing accessed March 9, 2015
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