October 11, 2017
“CLARK TERRY”
by Ray Harvey
St. Louis Public Radio reports that at 10-years-old Clark Terry made his first trumpet out of junkyard remnants. The neighbors got so sick of hearing it they chipped in and came up with money for a pawn shop horn, and from there Terry said he was never again without a trumpet. By age 30 he had been a soloist with both Count Basie and Duke Ellington and for seven decades he is said to have “performed with the audacity of a riverboat gambler.” In 2015 Clark Terry passed away at age 94, and the following year St. Louis’s Carondelet Community Association commissioned New Haven, Missouri illustrator, fine artist, and muralist Ray Harvey to paint the seventh in their Murals on Broadway series—on S. Broadway near Schirmer St. In addition to 29 years painting, Harvey is one of the few panoramic photographers remaining relying on a 1940’s Panon Widelux swinglens camera.








