| It's What's Happenin' | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Clark Terry |
| Cover: | It's What's Happenin'.jpg |
| Released: | 1967 |
| Recorded: | July 24, 1967 New York |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 35:50 |
| Label: | Impulse! |
| Producer: | Bob Thiele |
| Chronology: | Clark Terry |
| Prev Title: | Spanish Rice |
| Prev Year: | 1966 |
| Next Title: | Music in the Garden |
| Next Year: | 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]
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]
All compositions by Clark Terry except where noted.