There's always been several people somewhere who could blow. And they'd rave about everybody else and there you were in St. Louis you could blow, you know. As soon as the Duke got you out there, expected you out front, said "get `em. " But the first person that Duke Ellington said, beyond category, and I have Duke saying this on tape, he was on a radio broadcast and he said "oh Clark Terry, oh yes, Clark Terry, Clark, yeah, well Clark can play everything from way out Bop, Bebop to Dixieland. He can play everything and in between there, and I just call him a man beyond category. "