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Classic Arts News Trumpeter Clark Terry Donates Jazz Archive to New Jersey's William Paterson University Trumpeter and flugelhornist Clark Terry has given a cache of jazz memorabilia to William Paterson University of Wayne, New Jersey, the university announced today.
The 83-year-old jazz legend's donation includes instruments, sheet music, recordings, and correspondence, according to the Newark Star-Ledger. The university will create the Clark Terry Archive to house the materials.

Terry played in the big bands of two swing giants, Count Basie and Duke Ellington, in the late 1940s and '50s, and in the NBC Orchestra in the '60s. Expert in both swing and bebop, he began leading his own groups in the mid '50s, recording with such leading beboppers as Kenny Clarke and Thelonious Monk. Terry is also a prominent author and jazz educator.

 
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