Clark Terry discusses his travels.

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Clark Terry discusses the reception of jazz in Africa.

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Clark Terry discusses the merits of being a showman and entertainer versus a musician.

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Q: “Somebody told me once, I think it was Edmund Hall went to Africa and was going to spend some time there teaching jazz in effect, but became very frustrated because they weren’t terribly interested in it. I mean, his music was sort of basically four-four and because they have such complex rhythms in their every day life, they found his style of music at any rate to be, you know, conservative…”

A: “Well, on the contrary, they are very, very interested in our type of music and they are involved in practically in all of the countries that we played in, yes, I guess we got to play. We did really some good jazz on almost every instrument you can think of. Of course, this is aside from the rhythm, soprano rhythms and the great drumming abilities of all or most of the African people. You know, Africans always are very outstanding.”