Trumpets

Blessing Trumpet - Owned by Clark Terry

Elkhart, Indiana
United States

Silver
1949

1949 Blessing Silver Trumpet owned and played by the Grammy Award-winning American swing and bop trumpeter, Clark Terry. Clark Terry, nicknamed Mumbles, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Vashon High School there and began his professional career in the early 1940s by playing in local clubs before joining a Navy band during World War II. Afterwards, he played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948 to 1951), Duke Ellington (1951 to 1959), and Quincy Jones (1960). He also performed and recorded regularly both as a leader and sideman. In all, his career in jazz spans more than sixty years. Wikipedia

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Catalog#: HWMC

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