Clark Terry: Music in The Garden (Live at the Museum of Modern Art, 1968)

 

1    Now's The Time        09:20
2    Satin Doll    12:48
3    I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good   06:28
4    In A Mellow Tone   11:36
5    One Two Blues, You Know What To Do  07:46
6    Just Squeeze Me    09:31
7    Take The "A" Train      01:04

 

clark terry music in the garden liner notes

In August of 1968, trumpeter-flugelhorn player Clark Terry put together a quintet for an appearance in the Garden of New York's Museum of Modern Art in New York City. "At the time we made this live album at the Museum, I was running from one job to another. The pace was really hectic," Clark remembers. "My schedule included recording dates here in town, the "Tonight Show'' with Johnny Carson on NBC-TV, small group and big band gigs. I generally slept over in hotels rather than going to Queens because it was too tiresome to drive through town, across one of the bridges, onto the highway and home." The band that night was one of several Clark fronted during the late 1960s, featuring guys he liked and generally had worked with before," drummer Dave Bailey says, adding: "The personnel varied. Valve trombonist­/composer Bob Brookmeyer was co-leader on a number of the bookings. Pianists Roger Kellaway and Herbie Hancock worked with us. Bill Crow played bass." On this particular evening in the Garden, in what Bailey and bassist Larry Ridley describe as "a lovely setting," Clark's primary foil was the tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims. A most memorable artist, Zoot brought a bubbling sense of life and his own particular brand of swing to the music.