Date of Birth
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14-December-1920
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Place of Birth
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St. Louis
(Missouri, United States of America, Area code 314, Area code 557)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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C Terry, Terry, Clark, Mumbles, C.T., Chief Bogen, Clark 'Mumbles' Terry, The Tonight Show Band
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Profession
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Songwriter, Trumpeter, Musician, Actor, Film Score Composer
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Clark Terry is an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.
He played with Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Quincy Jones. Terry's career in jazz spans more than seventy years and he is one of the most recorded of jazz musicians.
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