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JW: What was the meaning behind Serenade to a Bus Seat in 1957 for Riverside?
CLark Terry: It wasn’t intended as a tribute to Rosa Parks [who two years earlier had defied Jim Crow laws in Montgomery, Ala., by sitting in the front of a bus, refusing to get up]. At the time, I had a record date to make for Orrin [Keepnews]. First, a photographer was supposed to come over and take my picture for the album. But he never showed up, and I didn’t have time after that. So they just took a picture of my horn on a bus seat and put that on the cover and used the title for the album. – October 05, 2010
Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry (October/1/2011) by Clark Terry
Gene Lees wrote about racism in jazz music in Cats of Any Color: Jazz Black and White and on the effect of racism on the careers of Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Jackson and Nat King Cole in You Can’t Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt and Nat. (2004)
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