- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1. Big Dreams -
2. First Instruments -
3. Kicked Out -
4. The Vashon High Swingsters -
5. First Road Gig -
6. Nigga -
7. Ida Cox -
8. Stranded -
9. Lincoln Inn -
10. On the Road Again -
11. Tennis Shoe Pimp -
12. Jailed -
13. Len Bowden -
14. Navy Days -
15. Gray Clouds -
16. The Big Apple -
17. George Hudson -
18. The Club Plantation -
19. Galloping Dominoes -
20. Tempting Offers -
21. Lionel Hampton -
22. Road Lessons -
23. Pauline -
24. Charlie Barnet -
25. Count Basie -
26. Big Debt -
27. Duke Ellington -
28. Leaving Basie -
29. The University of Ellingtonia -
30. Working with Duke -
31. Duke's Team -
32. Duke's Management Arts -
33. Miles and Bird -
34. Billy Strayhorn -
35. Endurances -
36. Flugelhorn -
37. Europe -
38. Norman Granz -
39. Norman's Battles -
40. Q -
41. NBC -
42. Jim and Andy's -
43. Johnny and Ed -
44. Mumbles -
45. First House -
46. Big Bad Band -
47. Carnegie Hall -
48. Etoile -
49. Jazz Education Arena -
50. Those NBC Years -
51. Storms -
52. Black Clouds -
53. Keep on Keepin' On -
54. New Love -
55. Whirlwinds -
56. Through the Storm -
57. Second Chance -
58. The Biggest Surprise - Acknowledgments
- Honors and Awards
- Original Compositions
- Selected Discography
- Index
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Nigga
Nigga
- Chapter:
- 6. Nigga
- Source:
- Clark
- Author(s):
Gwen Terry
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
In this chapter, Clark Terry narrates his experiences of live performances and shows. He describes how, with an average of seven shows in a day, he barely had time to even eat. This was not exactly Clark's dream, but it provided him with a livelihood. Clark's real dream was to play jazz and he longed to fulfill his dream. He then describes how watching a clarinet player perform in front of a large audience, at first made him feel in awe, and gradually became his inspiration to play the same notes on his horn using “circular breathing.” Furthermore, he shares his experience of his final show, which was almost ruined because of a thunderstorm, and which led to his coming across a white man, who, much to his surprise, saved his life.
Keywords: Clark Terry, shows, jazz, dream, circular breathing, white man
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1. Big Dreams -
2. First Instruments -
3. Kicked Out -
4. The Vashon High Swingsters -
5. First Road Gig -
6. Nigga -
7. Ida Cox -
8. Stranded -
9. Lincoln Inn -
10. On the Road Again -
11. Tennis Shoe Pimp -
12. Jailed -
13. Len Bowden -
14. Navy Days -
15. Gray Clouds -
16. The Big Apple -
17. George Hudson -
18. The Club Plantation -
19. Galloping Dominoes -
20. Tempting Offers -
21. Lionel Hampton -
22. Road Lessons -
23. Pauline -
24. Charlie Barnet -
25. Count Basie -
26. Big Debt -
27. Duke Ellington -
28. Leaving Basie -
29. The University of Ellingtonia -
30. Working with Duke -
31. Duke's Team -
32. Duke's Management Arts -
33. Miles and Bird -
34. Billy Strayhorn -
35. Endurances -
36. Flugelhorn -
37. Europe -
38. Norman Granz -
39. Norman's Battles -
40. Q -
41. NBC -
42. Jim and Andy's -
43. Johnny and Ed -
44. Mumbles -
45. First House -
46. Big Bad Band -
47. Carnegie Hall -
48. Etoile -
49. Jazz Education Arena -
50. Those NBC Years -
51. Storms -
52. Black Clouds -
53. Keep on Keepin' On -
54. New Love -
55. Whirlwinds -
56. Through the Storm -
57. Second Chance -
58. The Biggest Surprise - Acknowledgments
- Honors and Awards
- Original Compositions
- Selected Discography
- Index
- [UNTITLED]