It's What's Happenin'

1967 studio album by Clark Terry
It's What's Happenin'
Studio album by
Clark Terry
Released1967
RecordedJuly 24, 1967
New York
GenreJazz
Length35:50
LabelImpulse!
ProducerBob Thiele
Clark Terry chronology
Spanish Rice
(1966) 		It's What's Happenin'
(1967) 		Music in the Garden
(1968)

It's What's Happenin' (subtitled The Varitone Sound of Clark Terry) is an album by American jazz trumpeter Clark Terry featuring performances recorded in 1967 for the Impulse! label.[1][2] Remastered in 2012 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Impulse! Records, it was reissued together with Terry's only other record for the label as a solo leader, The Happy Horns of Clark Terry.[3]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3 stars stating "Not many will bother to recall that Clark Terry was the first trumpeter to make a recording with Selmer's Varitone attachment -- an electronic hookup to an amplifier that allowed a horn player to play octaves. Though the instrument quickly fell out of favor after a very brief vogue, it still produced an attractively soulful sound that was a good fit with Terry's jaunty, slurry, note-bending manner... there is nothing unmusically sensational about anything that happens here.".[4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Clark Terry except where noted.

  1. "Electric Mumbles" - 3:51
  2. "Secret Love" (Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain) - 6:15
  3. "Take Me Back to Elkhart" - 7:11
  4. "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) - 5:03
  5. "Tee Pee Time" - 6:25
  6. "Grand Canyon Suite" (Ferde Grofé) - 7:05

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Impulse! Records discography accessed January 9, 2012
  2. ^ Lord, T., Clark Terry discography, accessed July 14, 2016
  3. ^ Impulse! 2-on-1 Archived 2014-09-03 at the Wayback Machine accessed August 30, 2014
  4. ^ a b Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed January 9, 2012
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