Friday, June 03, 2005

Jazz history project features online interview clips of Clark Terry, other jazz greats


Clark Terry, as seen in his interview with the
Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project


St. Louis' own Clark Terry is among the jazz notables who have been interviewed for the the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project conducted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and now you can see a clip from that interview and talks with McCoy Tyner, Doc Cheatham, Milt Hinton and Randy Weston plus 16 others online here.

The clips are short - most under a minute - but it's still interesting and fun to see how some of these famous musicians speak and behave. If you're looking for more, the archive also includes full length streaming video of interviews conducted by trumpeter and jazz scholar Jimmy Owens with trumpeter/composer Nat Adderley, drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton, pianist and longtime public radio personality Marian McPartland and drummer/author Arthur Taylor.

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