page_title: Clark Terry
section_title: Awards and honors
hierarchical_section_title: Clark Terry / Awards and honors
caption_attribution_description: English: Legendary jazz trumpeter Clark Terry plays alongside the Great Lakes Navy Band Jazz Ensemble during a special concert “Great Lakes Experience.” Terry played in the all-star navy band at Great Lakes from 1941 to 1945 and was one of the first black navy musicians. Approximately 20 other former African American navy musicians, including Great Lake alumni, and guest conductor Gerald Wilson, were recognized for their dedicated service during the concert. Deutsch: Jazztrompeter Clark Terry während eines Konzerts zusammen mit dem Great Lakes Navy Band Jazz Ensemble am 28. Februar 2002.
context_page_description: Clark Virgil Terry Jr. was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator.
  He played with Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, and Oscar Peterson. He was with The Tonight Show Band from 1962 to 1972. His career in jazz spanned more than 70 years, during which he became one of the most recorded jazz musicians, appearing on over 900 recordings. Terry also mentored Quincy Jones, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny, Dianne Reeves, and Terri Lyne Carrington.
context_section_description: Over 250 awards, medals and honors, including:
  Induction into the Jazz at Lincoln Center Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame (2013)
  The 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, two Grammy certificates, three Grammy nominations
  Induction into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame
  The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award (1991)
  In 1988 an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.
  Sixteen honorary doctorates
  Keys to several cities
  Jazz Ambassador for U.S. State Department tours in the Middle East and Africa
  A knighthood in Germany
  Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award, presented by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity in (1985). Terry was awarded honorary membership in the Fraternity by the Beta Zeta Chapter at the College of Emporia (1968).
  An honorary member of the Iota Phi chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, National Honorary Band Fraternity (2011), at the University of New Hampshire.
  The French Order of Arts and Letters (2000)
  A life-sized wax figure for the Black World History Museum in St. Louis
  Inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame (1996)
  NARAS Present's Merit Award (2005)
  Trumpeter of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association (2005)
caption: Terry performing with the Great Lakes Navy Band Jazz Ensemble
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