Terri Lyne Carrington

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Anyways, now back to our regularly scheduled programming....

As I was reviewing my monthly Monday Morning Paradiddle column from a few weeks ago, I was prompted to revisit Terri Lyne Carrington's incredible Grammy award-winning album Money Jungle: Provocation in Blue.

Here is a live performance of her Money Jungle project, interpreted by Carrington and her band (this music was originally recorded in 1962 featuring Duke Ellington, Max Roach and Charles Mingus):

  

As you'll recall, she also recently received the prestigious NEA Jazz Masters award and is the director of the Berklee College of Music Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice.

To say the least, Carrington is an important figure and a leader in jazz today!

This also led me to spend some time listening to her latest work with her project Social Science and, of course, discovered a ton of other great videos and such as well.

Here's a few articles to check out:

- An interview with Heather Bambrick from Jazz.FM91

- A Q&A from her recent residency last March at McGill University

- Earlier 2019 pieces from the New York Times and Downbeat Magazine

And here's a few other great, recent pieces: 

- Terri Lyne with pianist Danilo Perez from a recent collaboration, featuring students from the Berklee College of Music:

 

- An NPR Tiny Desk concert featuring her current band Social Science:

 

And here's a few older ones that I quite enjoyed and learned a great deal from: 

- Carrington's 2016 Tedx Talk entitled I am the Drums:

 

- My friend and tenor saxophonist Phil Dwyer recorded with Terri Lyne a number of years ago and spoke very highly of this session in particular:

 

- And finally, a fun and informative piece from the nice folks over at the Avedis Zildjian Cymbal Company: