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[piano notes playing]

[man scatting softly]

Okay.

[piano notes continue]

[rhythmically] ♪ A-da-loo-dol

♪ loo-da-loodle loo-da-loodle

Uh-huh.

- What is it? Like a... - No.

♪ Hoh-da-loodle doo-da-loodle

♪ Doo-da-loo-dle doodle

♪ Hah-da-loodle dah-da-loodle

♪ Dah-da-loodle dah-da-loodle Doh ♪

[tune repeats on piano]

♪ Hoh-da-loodle doo-da-loodle

♪ Doo-da-loodle doodle

♪ Hah-da-loodle doo-da-loodle

♪ Doodle, doo-da-loodle doh

- So... - Yeah.

Yeah!

Yes, that's it.

That's it. That's beautiful.

[chuckling] Yeah.

Yeah, that's beautiful.

[chuckles]

♪ Ah-da-loodle doo-da-loodle Doo-da-loodle doo-da-loodle ♪

Shoot.

Ah, you'll make it, CT.

We're all praying for you.

Thank you so much, CT.

- Ah, likewise. - Uh-huh.

Can't thank you enough...

- All right, man. - ...For everything.

[subway trains clanking]

[indistinct P.A. chatter]

CLARK: Dear Justin, challenges are a

part of life, as you know.

Your mind is a powerful asset.

Use it for positive thoughts,

and you'll learn what I've learned.

I believe in your talents, and I

believe in you.

Just remember that.

- GWEN: Clark? - Yeah?

Was it Duke or Count Basie

who gave you these shoes?

- Uh... - Was it Duke?

Oh, yeah.

♪ Jazz is takin' care of taters ♪

♪ And grits

♪ Do dah dedle doh dah do dah

♪ Jazz ain't nothin' but soul

♪ Going to the Grammys

Having a recognizable sound

is one of the most important attributes in jazz.

And our next honoree is

instantly recognizable for his

prodigious technique with

sensitivity and swing.

He possesses the happiest sound in jazz.

So, get happy with me as we

celebrate the extraordinary Clark Terry.

[applause]

The Academy proudly presents

the 2010 Grammy

Lifetime Achievement Award to

Clark Terry.

[applause continues]

Thank you.

Thank you. You've made an old man very

happy, he said -- and me, too.

[whistling and applause]

[laughter, applause]

[indistinct shouting]

[all cheer]

I remember one time, we were

at the Knicks game in New York

and Dizzy Gillespie walked up to me.

We were in the greenroom waiting for him to play

the national anthem.

And he was kind of nervous, and

we were all trying to console him

and he said, "I don't think

you know who you're married to."

And I looked at him like, "I do

know who I'm married to, you know.

I'm married to Clark Terry."

He said, "Clark Terry -- he is

one of the greatest, if not the

greatest, trumpet players ever.

He said, "I know.

I'm Dizzy Gillespie, And I know."

[up-tempo music plays]

Well, Clark Terry the trumpet player is, without a doubt,

You know, to me, the top of the list, you know?

He played just a couple of notes, and you say right away,

"That's Clark Terry."

[up-tempo music plays]

He was my idol, man. I mean, who couldn't say that?

He was Miles' idol.

And certainly, he does the blues

about as well as any blues

singer I've ever heard, but...

You laugh.

[scatting]

Mumbles...[chuckles]

This is almost like a character

that Clark made up.

Can't understand a word he's saying,

but you understand everything. [laughs]

[scatting continues]

His playing, it's like a...

It's like a window into the

great things of the past.

[low-tempo music plays]

When you hear Clark, you hear his life.

Now, only a master can do that.

And Clark is a master.

[piano notes playing]

[mid-tempo piano music plays]

My name is Justin Kauflin,

I'm 23 years old, And I play thepiano.

Right down Jay Street to Front Street.

Left four blocks. Turn right.

I've been living here in New York for about three years.

I mean, New York is like the Mecca.

[siren wails]

It really is the center of the jazz world.

It's where I need to be.

Before I had got to the city, I hadn't really dealt with

crossing streets that much even.

Just crossing a street was, like, very scary.

But then I got Candy, who's my seeing-eye dog.

She helped me a lot in giving me

the confidence that I needed to

walk around the city by myself.

[up-tempo music plays]

I want to be a great jazz musician.

And if it means I've got to kind of struggle to make it happen,

Then that's what I'm gonna do.

But right now I'm still just a

nobody just trying to figure things out.

[siren wails]

[speaks indistinctly]

[piano notes play]

Oh, there you go.

When he was an infant, at

6 months or so, we were doing

that family picture thing, and

the guy was trying to get him to look at the camera.

[chuckling] And he -- you know, he wouldn't do it.

It's called Exudative Retinopathy,

A very rare condition.

They said he will never see anything but shadows.

That was the most painful time for me, as a mom, because it was

like a nightmare.

And, you know, he just happened

to have such a really positive attitude.

He's a happy baby.

He used that extremely well

'cause he was running around and

doing things that the other kids were doing.

All right, Justin!

Besides just not being able

to see things well until I got

really close to them, I was pretty normal.

Hey, play slow!

[laughter]

Eventually, we knew he could

possibly lose his eyesight, and

that's, I think, when he started

learning braille, just in case.

But he used to cheat. [laughs]

That was like right before he lost his vision.

He lost his vision in 6th grade.

JUSTIN: When I finally lost my sight,

I didn't have video games anymore.

I didn't have basketball or just

going outside to play with my friends.

That went away.

After that went away, I was Like, "Well, what do I have to do"?

What can I do?" you know.

"I went to school, and I'm here at home.

What is there?"

And I kind of just gravitated towards the piano, just kind of

sat at the piano and fell in love with it that way.

[classical piano music plays]

Learning a new song was like

acquiring a new thing, like

getting a new toy, almost.

That's really how I started loving what I was doing.

[applause]

As that changed into jazz,

learning about all the jazz musicians, he said, "Man, I wish

something bad would happen to me [laughing] so that I could

- play like that." - Sing the blues.

You know, "So I could play like that."

And I looked at him and I said, "Well, you just lost all your vision, you know?

Isn't that like kind of bad?"

He goes, "Nah, not really.

It's not like these guys.

These guys went through Some bad times."

[chuckles]

[mid-tempo jazz music plays]

I'm so excited.

Clark and I have been working on

his autobiography for 20 years now.

The galley has arrived, and we've been editing the book, and

I just read it each night to Clark,

and each time, he finds things that he wants to correct.

"One of the white crew members whose name I had never known

said, 'I found you lying in the mud outside the tent.'

He said, 'You were out cold, man.

A whole bunch of mean-looking white guys came up with chains

and knives, bats, and all kinds of shit.

And the creep they had for a leader asked us,

"Where's that nigger I left lying in the mud?"

But we had already brought you here.'

I reached out for the white crew guy who had come to my rescue,

and we shook hands.

Unforgettable handshake -- firm and warm, indelibly etched

in my mind."

You can write your butt off, Clark.

The way you tell stories, it makes it seem so real.

I felt like I was there.

Did you feel like you were there?

I was there.

[both chuckle]

[up-tempo music plays]

[up-tempo music plays]

Man: We start this parade with a great trumpet player, a man

who, in jazz circles, is considered beyond category --

Clark Terry.

[mid-tempo music plays]

["Johnny's Theme" plays]

[mid-tempo music plays]

A note is a note, and a note

doesn't care who plays it, as long as he plays it well.

Doesn't care if it's black, brown, green, or grey.

If you play the note well, that's accepted, you know?

[cheers and applause]

Clark Terry.

CARSON: Clark was recently inducted into the International Jazzhall of Fame.

Let me give you some of the inductees into

This group in 1985 --

The Count Basie Orchestra,

Roy Eldridge, Ella Fitzgerald,

Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman,

and Mr. Clark Terry.

And they sent this award out, and...

[cheers and applause]

CLARK: Many of my dreams have come true.

But what I've learned is that dreams change.

I always thought that the most

important thing was to play my horn.

But later on, I had a new dream...

...To help young musicians make

their dreams come true.

That became my supreme joy and

my greatest aspiration.

JUSTIN: The first time I met CT was

when I was studying at William Patterson University.

[chuckles]

Hey, what's up, man?

He ran a thing he called "The Small Group."

We would meet once or twice a week, and he would teach us

these amazing standards.

Ah-oodle.

♪ Ah-oodle de ah-oodle dee Oo-dee ♪

Man, he wore us out in those rehearsals.

One, two, three, four.

[music repeats tune]

I mean, here we are, a bunch of 20-year-old kids, and this guy is 85.

GWEN: After they would practice three or four hours at

William Patterson, they'd bring Clark back home.

Well, first, I would cook, and they could eat.

JUSTIN: The hangs at CT's house would be like jazz-history lessons every time.

He'd be telling us about Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.

I mean, these people were his friends.

[up-tempo music plays]

While I was at William Patterson, Clark,

he was losing his sight, and I think he

was having a pretty tough time adjusting to it.

GWEN: Now, Clark has had diabetes since the early 1950s.

That's about 60 years that he's had diabetes.

And one of the unfortunate

effects of that is that his

sight has been failing for the last few years.

And it just so happened that

Clark met Justin during this period,

Which was really a blessing.

Clark could relate to Justin, and Justin could relate to Clark.

And I think that really was a

bond that began a beautiful, deeper relationship.

CLARK: Justin Kauflin -- Oh, that's one of my favorite people.

Beautiful person.

I think he's one of the most talented pianists that ever

walked the face of this earth.

He's fantastic.

Gwen and I both love him.

We really feel like he's one of our sons, you know.

[piano notes play]

♪ Doop de doop dah

♪ Doop de doop dah

♪ Doh bah doop doop doo dah

[piano repeats tune]

Yeah.

JUSTIN: I still come down to visit CT all the time.

He's still my teacher.

I mean, sometimes I spend a few weeks down here.

Now, what would happen if you...

♪ Hoo-dah-la-di-dah-la

[piano repeats tune]

Yeah, dah-da!

No, not dah doh, but dah-da.

♪ Hoo-dah-la-di-dah La-di-dah-la-di-dah ♪

[piano repeats tune]

♪ Dah-da Yeah.

♪ Hoo-dah-la-di-dah La-di-dah-la-di-dah ♪

Yeah, now put that all together.

[piano notes play]

- [laughing] Yeah. - Whoa!

Yeah. Yeah.

Awesome.

[mid-tempo music plays]

♪ I call my sugar candy

♪ Because she is so dandy

♪ Dah-do-dah-doo-doo-doo

Yeah, Candy.

Yeah, man.

Hey, that's a good tune.

Yeah, it is.

I've been thinking about this, CT.

Hmm.

You know, there's masters and

then there's amateurs.

And there's a lot more amateurs than there are masters.

And I've been trying to think, "What really makes the

difference, you know?"

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Mm.

So, that's real important to know yourself.

Yeah.

Uh, it's 1:35...After midnight.

[both chuckle]

[slow jazz music plays]

[trumpet notes playing]

Pbht!

[light jazz music plays]

[groans]

Hey, CT.

Hey, Justin, how you doing, baby?

Doing all right. Just about to take off here.

All right.

Man, thank you so much, CT.

All right, CT, take it easy.

I love you.

All right, you, too.

All right. [chuckles]

- I'll try. - Okay.

I'll try.

When I first met Clark Terry,

I must've been about 13 years old, and it was the theater

There where all the big guys came -- the Palomar theater.

And I just used to sit and listen to him play, you know?

[trumpet solo plays]

He was my idol, man.

At that time, I didn't know anything, and I just was

hell-bent on being even just

around this man, you know, to

hear whatever he had to say.

[chuckles]

Of course it takes a lot of courage, you know, to go to

somebody like that, but I mean,

It's my only chance, you know?

If I didn't say something, then

it may never have happened.

And he could tell that I was

Determined, you know, but the main thing is that he said, "Yes."

Quincy would come to Clark's hotel room just before Clark would go to bed,

Which was just before Quincy would go to school,

And he would take lessons.

So Quincy was Clark's first student.

11 years later, Clark left the Duke Ellington band to join Quincy Jones.

[mid-tempo music plays]

For him to leave Duke Ellington's band and to

come join my band in Paris, man,

Do you know how good that feels like?

You know, that's the greatest honor you could dream of in your whole life.

I said, "here's my idol, my teacher. He's playing in my band."

I couldn't believe it, you know.

I mean, you never forget that.

I just can't believe that it's been 65 years, man, you know,

Since that day.

[horns honk]

[piano notes playing]

JUSTIN: I had ideas about how things

Might go when I moved to New York, and I was pretty naive, maybe.

You know, I thought it would go a certain way.

I wanted to be a sideman, I wanted to play with a lot of different bands,

And it just didn't happen for me because of

The blind thing, where they didn't think I could learn

the music or get to the gig or

I'd be more hassle, as opposed to

somebody who could just show up.

[chuckling] I got no more money.

[chuckles] Basically.

Like, I just can't put myself in that situation 'cause I can't

Just go get a job somewhere.

Yeah, it's kind of weird, though.

It feels like last day of school

or something like that --

Packing up, going home.

Candy, where's your toy?

Okay. Go get it!

Come on.

Drop it.

["Don't Worry, Be Happy" whistling ringtone plays]

Hello?

I think so.

They just say he's hurting all over.

Really, they were just saying

that they were planning on

heading back into the hospital.

- That was about it. - Oh, man.

I think it's all with the circulation, I think.

Mm-hmm.

'Cause that was exactly what his problem was, right?

Like, his legs weren't getting

circulation, and I think that's

a pretty common thing for people

with diabetes to lose limbs.

[slow music plays]

GWEN: Clark has a wound on his foot that just won't heal.

It's a pretty common problem

When you have diabetes -- with your circulation.

So, he came to the hospital so

we can find out what needs to be done.

Hey, Justin.

Hey, CT, how you doing?

Aw, man.

Candy. Hey, baby.

Hi, Candy.

You're wagging your tail like crazy.

Candy, sit.

There you go.

We're all moved back to Virginia now.

Got everything out of the apartment, you know.

Back home now. I'm back home with the family, so...

Yeah, yeah. You got it.

Yeah, man!

I think it's the best thing whenever his students are

around because they're in there

talking about the doodle tongue

system, and Clark's whole

mentality has been uplifted.

- Hey, Justin. - Yeah?

You can practice just some fingering once in a while.

Uh-huh.

♪ Dadle dadle dadle dadle

♪ Dedle-dedle-dedle-dedle-dee

BOTH: ♪ Dadle dadle dadle dadle

♪ Dadle-dedle-dedle-dedle-dee

Just do it a couple times With me.

Two, three, four.

BOTH: ♪ Dadle deedle didle Dodle dudle ♪

Keep doing it.

BOTH: ♪ Dadle deedle didle Dodle dudle ♪

Do it.

BOTH: ♪ Dadle deedle didle Dodle dudle ♪

♪ Dadle deedle didle dodle dudle ♪

Now i keep hearing from You -- "ladle leedle lidl lodle Ludle."

"Lah" instead of "dah."

Hmm.

GWEN: The doctors want Clark to try

hyperbaric oxygen treatment.

It's an oxygen chamber.

So, we're gonna give it our best.

We were just hanging out, and

Mulgrew was there, and you were

teaching him a tune.

Yeah, you know, on the spot, you

were teaching him this tune.

It's an old tune, yeah.

- It's one word. - Yeah.

I'm pretty sure it's one word.

Teaching him that tune.

Uh, sailing?

Did it have to do with, like, breeze?

Breeze.

[chuckles]

All right, we got it.

♪ Breeze

♪ Bahdoh oo doh dah

♪ You stole my heart from me

♪ Bah dodle doh

Yeah.

♪ When I woke up this

♪ Morning

♪ She was gone

♪ Sha dedle dedle dodle dodle Dah ♪

♪ Breeze

♪ Shabah do dah

♪ You dodle zah doday ha dodle

♪ Doh

♪ Bo be boh

♪ Blow my baby back to me

That's the tune!

That's a pretty tune.

[chuckles]

- I will. I'll learn it. - All right.

Yeah.

Hold on. I'm gonna take this out.

The time is 2:35 a.m.

2:35.

2:35?

A.m.

[both chuckle]

♪ Bah bah dobop booh

♪ Blow my baby back to me

[chuckling] yeah.

[birds chirping]

Thanks.

[chuckles]

[speaks indistinctly]

Yeah, we're just heading to the doctor's now.

Go get a little checkup.

When mom does anything wrong,

it's, like, the end of the world.

"Oh, shoot!

What are we gonna do?!"

I'm like, "Turn around. It's okay."

Really?

Yeah, 'cause you freak out. you have, like, a heart attack.

[chuckles]

["Don't Worry, Be Happy" Whistling ringtone plays]

Hello?

Yes.

Oh, how are you doing?

Oh. Awesome.

Man, that's -- okay, that's cool.

[chuckles]

I'm gonna home and practice, then.

[chuckles]

[gasps] Oh, really?

[gasps] What?!

Okay.

Awesome.

I should give you a quick heads-up now, I guess.

I am totally blind, and I travel with a guide dog.

So, just, um -- yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just [chuckles] just to give

you a little bit of, you know, notice.

All right. Thanks very much.

Bye.

[groans]

Already feel sick.

[exhales deeply]

I just don't do well in competition.

- I do not do well. - Ah, Justin.

Oh, no, lookit -- I see your nerves.

Yeah, I'm freaking out.

[laughing]

That's what happens when I'm nervous. I shake.

Just like my mom does when she gets pulled over.

That'll be me all weekend.

"Oh, my God! Oh, shoot!"

- Oh, no. - "Gosh!"

I can't believe I -- really?

Any time that you get lost...

CT, how you doing, man?

Oh. Glad to hear it, man.

I'm glad to hear you're back at the pad.

Well, hey, CT, I got some kind

of exciting news.

I'm gonna be in the

Thelonious Monk competition.

Yeah, I don't know how I got in,

but I'm in there.

Shoot.

Aww, shucks, CT.

Well, you know, I'm shedding Now, man.

I'm getting ready for it.

[up-tempo piano music plays]

This Monk competition is -- as

far as I'm concerned, it's a pretty big deal.

I mean, the judges themselves --

Danilo Pérez, Herbie, and

Ellis Marsalis -- I mean, that's heavy, man.

That could be a really humongous boost, you know, for my career.

[scoffs]

Well, see, the more I talk about it, the more I realize what's at atake.

There could be a lot in it, you know?

[music continues]

[trumpet notes play]

[groans]

How do you feel?

Ohh.

- So-so? - Yeah.

Is that enough blankets?

Yeah, I think so.

Okay.

Tuck in your elbows real tight, Mr. Clark.

Okay.

He didn't really want to do it at first.

He's kind of claustrophobic.

What it does is it increases the oxygenation in what little blood

flow he has in his legs.

Not everybody's wounds are healed,

But more than not, they do heal.

He's done better each treatment.

I don't know how long -- if he's gonna be willing to go 90 treatments.

[air hisses]

I know it's hard, so just hang in there.

- Well... - All right?

We'll work it out. you okay?

- Yeah. - Okay?

- Thank you. - You're welcome, babe.

- Give me another one. - Huh?

Give me another one.

- And one to go? - Mm-hmm.

- Mm-hmm. - Okay?

- Thank you. - All right. All right.

He's been playing this one song over and over like at 3:00

in the morning every night, and

his piano is, like, right below us -- our bedroom.

I mean, I know I can get through it as long as I don't throw anything crazy at myself.

There's just a lot going on, right?

I have to keep something going

on in the left hand to keep the time going.

I can't be thinking about trying

to keep the left hand doing the

right thing and trying to solo at the same time, you know. It's...

[piano notes play]

And then trying to keep the time together,

It's like, "Ugh, Lord, have mercy."

So down on himself, you know.

He's so critical.

You know, any time he thinks

about it, it kind of brings back

the butterflies and getting sick.

The worst thing about me is that I can easily psych myself out.

That will be the worst thing, so

I need to be prepared, if I do

have to listen to the three

people that go before me, to not let that affect what I do, you know?

I'm guessing that we can't hear each other, right, you know?

There's got to be, like, a waiting room or something like that.

[laughs]

Just have a straight-up panic attack on stage.

[groans]

"Is he okay?!

Did he just have a heart attack onstage?!"

[mid-tempo jazz music plays]

[applause]

Clark Terry.

In token whereof, we present

you with this diploma and we invest you with this hood.

[applause]

Clark was one of the founders of jazz education.

♪ Dadle deedle didle dodle Dudle ♪ Four.

ALL: ♪ Dadle deedle didle dodle Dudle ♪

Four. And when you're playing, it actually comes out in the same fashion.

[trumpet music plays]

♪ Dadle deedle didle dodle dudle dadle deedle didle dodle ♪

Just about every single icon

In jazz since Clark Terry has

had to learn something from Clark Terry.

[mid-tempo music plays]

And miles told me that he'd go across the river to St. Louis

to hear Clark play.

And Clark took miles under his wing.

CLARK: Miles Dewey Davis.

There was this little skinny cat, man.

He couldn't look you in the eye.

He was very timid.

He was so thin that if he had

turned sideways, they'd have marked him absent.

[laughs]

He was a skinny cat, man.

Clark was my first idol.

It's in me, you know -- osmosis.

It's just...You know.

[up-tempo music plays]

Terri, it's so good to see you again.

You know, I haven't seen you since Wichita.

You still look the same.

Oh! And you, too.

Yeah, I met Clark when I was about 10 years old.

He was a very big supporter of

me at that age -- enough that it

kind of propelled me to keep

going, and I saw that as my future.

[both scatting]

It was really great when I

heard this great man play, and I

didn't know, really, the history

of jazz, but I came and I heard

Clark Terry, and I was like...

[laughter]

Hi!

Oh, my God.

There's just something about

him that has this ability to

reach inside of you and make you

just do what you need to do.

You wanted to live up to what

this man knows that you have

'cause he just pulled it out of

you, and you just wanted to do

right by him.

I think you're marvelous, and you're doing a great job.

Thank you.

I'm so happy for you, and I love you, and god bless you.

This man taught thousands of students who taught thousands of

students who are gonna teach thousands of students.

It's almost like being pulled by a magnet.

You feel this desire to excel from someone else.

Aside from the fact that there are people all over the world

who can teach anybody the square root of a b-flat chord,

there are not too many instances

where people encourage the people to give vent to their own

feelings and produce that which is within them.

You got to inspire them and encourage them, make them do

what they know they can do, and most of the time, they don't

even know what they can do till you get it out of them.

He doesn't want you to copy what he's doing.

He wants you to find your own voice.

I can't put it into words the things I've learned from Clark.

I can't put it into words 'cause there's so many things as a

human being and as a musician.

There's so many things.

But it's much more than that, you know.

If it hadn't been for Clark, I wouldn't have been in a position

to have all those record sessions and movies and all the

other stuff, you know, 'cause,

his love and his mentoring

that -- That encouraged me to

keep on trying to be better, you know.

That's the most important thing you can get as a young musician. you know that.

Yep, somebody believes in you --

Makes you believe in yourself more, you know.

- Hi, Justin. Candy. - Gwen. How you doing?

Hey, good to see you.

So good to see you!

Good to see you, too.

Come on in. Come on in.

Clark is gonna be so excited to see you.

[chuckles]

Hey, what's happening, man?

I'm just hanging out.

Oh, yeah, just a little bit,

Trying to figure some things out, yeah.

Yeah.

She's right here, CT.

Yeah, I'm gonna go for it.

I'm going for the number-one spot.

We'll see.

Tell you what, I mean, to be honest, ever since I got the call,

my stomach has been in a knot.

Yeah.

And this could be a really Big thing for me, you know,

'Cause it's been tough for me to get work in New York.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

[scatting]

[tune repeats on piano]

[scatting]

Yeah.

[laughs]

[mid-tempo piano music plays]

Jingle, jingle, jingle, Jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle.

[laughs]

Shoot.

[mid-tempo piano music plays]

And when I walk onstage, I always enjoy a little stage fright.

And, of course, there then I must muster up a certain amount

of courage and get the ranks

closed in and try and have the

kids blow the fright away.

[slow piano music plays]

- "Sophisticated lady." - "Sophisticated lady."

What was the bridge to that?

"Smoking, drinking"?

♪ Smoking, drinking

♪ Never thinking of tomorrow

Oh, wow.

♪ Nonchalant

Maybe I'll try it.

I got to do a ballad.

That's a pretty grown-up song, Though.

I don't know.

I might not be old enough to Play that.

[Laughs]

[up-tempo piano music plays]

[laughs]

Troubles me a lot.

Right now, it's not where I want it to be.

Like, when you hear CT playing the horn,

You know that it's Clark, and that's definitely

where I'm trying to get to.

[sighs]

I don't know.

I have to figure out how to be me.

I guess I'm just trying to figure that out.

[up-tempo piano music plays]

[birds chirping]

[no audio]

- Hey, CT. - Mm-hmm.

It's Justin.

Just stopping by.

Uhhhh.

Give me this hand. There it is.

- [chuckling] yeah. - [chuckles]

Beautiful.

Oh, yeah, yeah. I got plenty of sleep.

Good.

Sleeping my ass off.

Yeah, just a little bit more.

[chuckles]

[chuckles]

CT, this is Justin.

I'm doing all right.

I think -- I think it sounded

like you were listening to

Clifford right there.

Yeah.

CT.

You've recorded over 1,000 records?

That's a lot.

[chuckles]

[chuckles]

I think I have one.

You have any other tunes that you had in mind?

[scatting]

Yeah, okay, I think I got it.

Yeah, I think so.

That sounds good.

We'll give it a shot tonight.

[mid-tempo piano music plays]

[scatting]

[tune repeats on piano]

♪ Memories

♪ Memories of love

♪ Memories

[scatting]

[chuckles]

[chuckling] yeah.

[chuckles]

- Yep. - [chuckles]

[piano notes play]

All right, CT.

All right.

Yeah, I got a few.

[chuckles]

Get that leg to heal.

Yeah.

Get that leg to heal, and I'm sure we'll be in tip-top shape, man.

Yeah.

- Thank you so much, CT. - Beautiful. All right.

Yeah, thank you.

I had a wonderful time.

You, too. Love you.

All right.

I don't think I've heard a session like that in a long time.

Yeah.

I may not know the technicalities of jazz, but I know when you're happy.

[chuckles]

And you're a wonderfully talented master teacher, and I love you.

Mwah!

Thank you, baby.

Okay. Ready.

Oh, it's nice.

Candy's like, "What?"

[chuckles]

Candy, check it out. Check it out.

It's very nice.

It looks like there's a

package here from Gwen and

Clark, and a recording.

CLARK: Dear Justin, challenges are a

part of life, as you know.

I understand that you might feel pressure.

Some folks call it stage fright.

Lots of cats have had that, including me.

So, I'm sending you a pair of my socks to wear.

These are good-luck socks.

When you wear my good-luck socks,

I want you to close

everybody and everything out of

your mind and imagine all of us

being right there with you.

I believe in your talent, and I believe in you.

I believe that you're ready for

the Monk competition.

Whatever you play, just relax.

Think about how relaxed you were

when you played for me.

Then reach way down deep in your soul

and say, "I can do my best,

And I will do my best."

That's all I'm asking.

MAN: Ladies and gentlemen, our fourth semi-finalist -- from

Virginia Beach, Virginia,

Justin Kauflin.

[cheers and applause]

[slow piano music plays]

[piano music fades]

[somber music plays]

JUSTIN: It's always my biggest enemy has been my mind.

Just[groans]

can't shut it off.

I can't get down to really what

it is that I think I should be

saying...Straight from me,

straight from who I am

Because -- because my mind is

such a barrier.

It's such a barrier.

MAN: Without any further ado,

because they're all backstage

awaiting anxiously, it is my privilege and pleasure to

announce our three finalists.

Mr. Emmet Cohen.

Yeah!

[cheers and applause]

Mr. Josh White.

[cheers and applause]

And finally...

Mr. Kris Bowers.

[cheers and applause]

Is it okay? Okay.

You were wonderful, by the way. Congratulations.

Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you so much.

This is the tough part, man.

Just walking around and smiling and stuff.

It is the tough part.

God, man. Ohh.

Just thinking about it.

Oh, man.

What am I gonna tell CT?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was -- it was good.

It was good to do it.

It was definitely good to do it.

[laughs]

I hear it.

Yeah.

Yeah, but when I'll be at your place, man, we'll put in some

extra -- maybe some extra hours if you feel like it.

[chuckles]

GWEN: Clark has had several weeks

of hyperbaric therapy, and it's just not working.

But we're not giving up.

We're gonna keep the faith and

find out what our options are.

How's your foot, Mr. Terry? Feels better?

- Oh, is this the doctor? - Yes, sir.

- How you doing? - Pretty good.

- Good to see you. - How's your foot feeling?

- Pretty good. - All right, then I'm gonna

take all this off so I can take a good look at it.

All right.

Okay.

Compared to when I saw him in the hospital, that wound is bigger, okay?

The problem is with everything that you've already had,

the only thing I would have to offer you at this point would be

amputation, or removing the foot entirely.

Yeah, I know it's a big decision.

Again, I'm not trying to push you in that way.

I'm here to help you, but my job

is -- is not fulfilled if I

don't tell you, based on what

I'm seeing now, this has gotten

significantly worse.

Mm-hmm.

You okay?

Hmm?

Hmm?

You're just scared, hon.

What hurts? What hurts?

Where?

GWEN: Clark's surgery is tomorrow.

He's managed to stay positive,

but he wanted to see Justin

before he goes to the hospital.

[both laugh]

Shoot.

How you hanging in there, CT?

Yeah, CT.

- Oh, really? - No.

[breathes sharply]

Go ahead and get through this,

man, and get out of there, get your horn back out.

Yeah.

Indeed.

[laughs]

[sighs]

Had a -- I would say I had a

good -- good time at the competition.

- Oh, yeah. - Yeah.

You know, the nerves --

The nerves got the best of me.

Oh, I definitely learned some things.

Yeah.

Just wasn't -- it wasn't the right time.

Yeah.

JUSTIN: CT was having a rough day today.

He's dealing with a lot.

I'm real worried about him.

[insects chirping]

Oh, man, it's no problem, CT.

You got to get your rest.

That's important.

Aw, you'll make it, CT.

We're all praying for you.

Thank you so much, CT.

Aww, likewise.

Can't thank you enough for everything.

Thank you.

Mm.

All right.

It's about quarter to 4:00.

Yeah.

[both chuckle]

All right, CT. I will.

[insects chirping]

GWEN: The hyperbaric therapy just -- it just didn't work.

And he got pneumonia, and now

his other leg has a wound, and

it's getting pretty bad.

Clark is going to the hospital,

and we're gonna have to have

both legs amputated.

[sighs]

I just don't want anything to happen to him.

He's like a history of jazz,

a history of how to make it.

And I don't want him to go.

[slow piano music plays]

[music continues]

Just wanted to wish you

another happy birthday.

Praying for you.

We'll see you soon.

Love you, CT.

[music continues]

[slow trumpet music plays]

They say that you can always

sense through a person's music

the type of person he is, you know?

And there's something to that,

because I know there are some

guys who are vicious, uptight,

and evil, and they sound

vicious, uptight, and evil.

[chuckles]

I would like not to sound

vicious, uptight, and evil.

I like to sound relaxed and

enjoyable, and even, in some

cases, beautiful, you know,

Although I'm an old ugly ham, you know?

[laughs]

I like to think of at least my

soul as being beautiful.

[music continues]

[finale plays]

[birds chirping]

- Clark? - Is that my baby?

- That's your baby, honey. - Hey, baby.

- You're going home, baby. - I love you, baby.

- I love you, too, Clark. - Love you so much.

- You're going home, baby. - Thank God.

- I know it. - Thank God.

I know it.

♪ Going home

♪ Going home

♪ I am going home

[piano plays "Going Home"]

[scatting]

[scatting continues]

[piano music continues]

[music fades]

[trumpet music plays]

[scatting]

[scatting]

Make a wish.

[cheers and applause]

One, two, three.

Smile.

[up-tempo jazz music plays]

[music fades]

[slow music plays]

Hey, CT. Justin's over here to your right.

- Hey, CT. - Hey, Justin.

- [laughing] hey! - How you doing, baby?

- I'm doing all right. - How you doing?

Oh, hanging in there.

Oh, man. Glad to see you.

Glad to see you, man.

I'm happy to see you, too.

Where's my buddy?

She's right there on the floor right front of you, I think.

Right in front of me?

- She's happy to see you. - Hi, sweetheart. Yeah.

- CT. - Hmm?

You're off the oxygen tank, huh?

No more oxygen tank?

Man, what's going on?

This cat is a -- you're a superhero.

Yeah. [chuckles]

Man.

I got to get some of that.

[mid-tempo piano music plays]

♪ Do-bah-doodle

♪ Do-bah-doodle

[Tune repeats on piano]

♪ Dadle deedle didle dodle, Dadle deedle didle dodle ♪

♪ Dadle deedle didle dodle, Dah-du-deh doh ♪

[Tune repeats on piano]

♪ Oobah-oobah-oobah

[laughs]

♪ Oobah-oobah-oobah

It's too fast for me, CT.

♪ Oobah-oobah!

Oh.

[Tune repeats on piano]

Yeah.

[Tune repeats on piano]

Perfect.

[jazz music plays]

- Sac. - Clark?

- Yeah. - Here's Q.

Hey, Q.

Yeah.

[both chuckle]

How are you, baby?

All right.

Yeah.

[both chuckle]

Right.

[both chuckle]

[chuckles]

Virginia Beach.

Yep.

[laughs]

Well, come on. We're gonna get you in the

living room, and we're gonna bring Clark in here.

- Hey, Justin. - Hey.

Oh, really?

He heard a little bit.

[chuckles]

Oh, I'll try.

I'll try to play something for him.

Yeah.

Definitely.

Oh, boy.

[up-tempo piano music plays]

Yeah.

Yeah.

[cheers and applause]

Good gracious.

Absolutely.

I'm so, so blessed to be around

Clark, but then, at the same

time, trying to look forward,

you know, and figure out what it is that I want to contribute.

Yeah.

Mm.

Pshh.

Man, I'm trying.

[laughs]

- You, too, man. - God bless you, baby.

Oh, Sac. You, too.

- Take care. - Love you.

[finale plays]

[mid-tempo piano music plays]

[scatting]

[music, scatting fade]

[mid-tempo piano music plays]

[telephone rings]

Hello, this is Gwen.

Gwen who?

Hey, how you doing, Quincy?

What's going on?

Hell yeah.

[laughter]

Pretty good, Q. How you been?

[chuckles]

When I first met that kid,

I thought about the time you and I...

Yeah.

[chuckles]

[chuckles]

Clark, you know, when I met

him, he came and heard me and he

said, "Mm, just -- I'll be in touch."

And he was.

- Yeah. - Special man.

He's something.

And that life force of his --

Everybody should take a lesson.

♪ I'm glad there is you

♪ More than ever

♪ I'm glad there is

♪ You

[cheers and applause]

Oh, thank you so much, Justin.

We have never worked together. This is a first.

[laughs]

- God bless you, baby. - I love you, too.

Thank you so much.

Oh, boy!

["Don't Worry, Be Happy" whistling ringtone plays]

- CT? - Yeah, baby.

Hey, how you doing?

Oh, yeah?

What's going on?

Yeah?

Quincy Jones?

You're kidding me!

I don't know what to say, man.

[laughing] I don't know what to say.

Oh, my God.

Quincy Jones, what the hell?

You kidding me?

Oh, that's pretty unexpected.

Oh.

Okay.

Time to do something else now.

[Quincy Jones' "Soul Bossa Nova" plays]

- Hey, man. - How you doing?

- How you feel, man? - Just trying to hang.

- Just trying to hang. - Just trying to hang.

- Here's my daughter. - Good to see you.

Good to see you.

[music continues]

[music continues]

[cheers and applause]

Mesdames et messieurs...

De suisse, Quincy Jones!

[cheers and applause]

When I was 12 years old, I was very fortunate.

I met a man in St. Louis named Clark Terry.

And he --

[cheers and applause]

Unbelievable human being.

I was his very first student,

and tonight, we have a man that

is his latest protégé.

He is unbelievable.

[mid-tempo music plays]

CLARK: Now, Justin, you've been just

like a son to me.

I love you that much.

I want you to know that I'm with

you all the way.

Your mind is a powerful asset.

Use it for positive thoughts,

and you'll learn what I've learned.

I call it getting on the plateau of positivity.

[cheers and applause]

["For Clark" plays]

[finale plays]

[music ends]

[cheers and applause]

Justin Kauflin.

Justin Kauflin.

Unbelievable.

That's for you, Clark.

[slow music plays]

[cheers and applause continue]

If you need more socks, just let me know.

I've got plenty of them.

I love you, and god bless you.

CT.

♪ Shagadee-boh-dah-lee

♪ Bah-dah-didle-doh

♪ Bah-dah-didle-doh Two. Three.

[tune repeats on saxophone]

- ♪ Bah-dah-didle-doh - Yeah, now do it fast.

One, two, three, four.

[notes play quickly]

Three, four.

Three four.

[notes play quickly]

Three, four.

[notes play quickly]

- Oh, okay. Okay. - That's beautiful.

Yeah.

What time is it, baby?

1:30.

After midnight.

- Oh, after midnight? - Yeah.

[both laugh]

Yeah.

[applause]

[up-tempo piano music plays]

[scatting]

[scatting continues]

[scatting continues]

[scatting conversationally]

[laughter]

[scatting continues]

[high-pitched scatting]

[low-pitched scatting]

[scatting]

[applause]

Whoo!

[scatting]

Whoo!

Whoo!

Yeah!

[scatting]

Whoo! Oh, yeah!

[finale plays]

[slow jazz music plays]

[applause]

[trumpet solo]

[music continues]

Whoo! Whoo!

[music continues]

[cheers and applause]

[music fades]

[slow piano music plays]

[band joins in]