Breeze

Keep on Keepin' On

Crit

When Clark Terry was a young man with a horn, he eagerly pursued his education, graduating from "the Count Basie prep school to the University of Ellingtonia," and soon he himself felt a tug toward teaching--specifically from a skinny 12-year-old named Quincy Jones. Some 70 years later, Terry is still mentoring young jazz musicians, including a blind pianist named Justin Kauflin whom Jones has signed for his orchestra.

This is the sort of lovefest that can easily get goopy, but "beautiful"--Terry's favorite word--applies equally to the movie and to the man, who, on the topic of his own ongoing education, promises on the long-overdue occasion of his Grammy lifetime achievement award, "I'm 90 years, but I'm gonna keep at it 'til I get it right!"