''Clark Terry Plays the Jazz Version of All American'' is an album by trumpeter

Clark Terry Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator. He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948–51), Duke ...

featuring performances of music from the Broadway musical, ''

All American The designation All American often refers to the hyphenated term All-American, a noun or adjective denoting players selected for an All-America sports team. Of an individual, all-American may mean that the person (often male) expresses the qualiti ...

'' recorded in 1962 and originally released on the Moodsville label.Moodsville Records discography
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Clark Terry Discography
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Reception

Allmusic rated the album with three stars.Allmusic listing
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Track listing

All compositions by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse # "What a Country" - 4:22 # "Same Language" - 4:05 # "If I Were You" - 5:00 # "I've Just Seen Her" - 3:50 # "Once upon a Time" - 2:20 # "Nightlife" - 4:34 # "It's Fun to Think" - 5:06 # "The Fight Song" - 3:45

Personnel

- trumpet,

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...

*Lester Robinson - trombone * Budd Johnson - tenor saxophone * George Barrow -

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use - the bass, contra ...

* Eddie Costa - piano, vibraphone * Art Davis -

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gui ...

* Ed Shaughnessy -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

* Oliver Nelson -

arranger In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...

References

{{Authority control Moodsville Records albums Clark Terry albums 1962 albums Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio Albums arranged by Oliver Nelson