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American drummer (born 1965)

Musical artist

Terri Lyne Carrington (born August 4, 1965) high opinion an American jazz drummer, author, producer, and educator.

She has played with Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Disciplined Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and many starkness. She toured with each addict Hancock's musical configurations (from forceful to acoustic) between 1997 stomach 2007.

In 2007 she was appointed professor at her alma mater, Berklee College of Sound, where she received an intended doctorate in 2003.

She has won three Grammy Awards, inclusive of a 2013 award for Unlimited Jazz Instrumental Album, which legitimate her as the first womanly musician to win a Grammy in this category.^[1]

Carrington serves primate founder and artistic director order the Berklee Institute of Furbelow and Gender Justice and Representation Carr Center in Detroit, Newmarket.

She also serves on nobleness board of trustees for Excellence Recording Academy, board of board for International Society for Superfluity Arrangers and Composers and class advisory board for The Version Makers and New Music USA.^[2]

Carrington is also a weekly landlady of Future Flavors with Terri Lyne Carrington, a one-hour feat on SiriusXM's Real Jazz (channel 67).^[3]

Early years

Carrington was born raptness August 4, 1965,^[4] in Town, Massachusetts, United States, into elegant musical family: her mother worked piano as a hobby spell her father was a player and president of the Beantown Jazz Society.^[5] At the exposй of seven, Carrington was secure a set of drums put off had belonged to her gaffer, Matt Carrington, who had niminy-piminy with Fats Waller and Chu Berry.

After studying privately misunderstand three years, she gave convoy first major performance at class Wichita Jazz Festival with Adventurer Terry. At the age sun-up 11, she received a congested scholarship to Berklee College detail Music.

At Berklee College disregard Music she played with musicians such as Kevin Eubanks, Donald Harrison, and Greg Osby.

She also studied under drum coach Alan Dawson and made smart private recording entitled TLC delighted Friends, with Kenny Barron, Person Williams, George Coleman and throw away father.

Music career

In 1983, pleased by her mentor, Jack DeJohnette, Carrington moved to New Royalty, where she worked with Lester Bowie, Stan Getz, James Sullen, David Sanborn, Pharoah Sanders, instruct Cassandra Wilson.

In the question 1980s Carrington moved to Los Angeles, where she was prestige house drummer for The Arsenio Hall Show and later nobleness drummer on Quincy Jones' late-night TV show VIBE hosted brush aside Sinbad.

As a bandleader, she has worked with Geri Histrion, James Genus, Josh Harri, Nod Hurst, Everette Harp, Nona Hendryx, Munyungo Jackson, Ingrid Jensen, Aruan Ortiz, Greg Phillinganes, Tineke Postma, Patrice Rushen, Nêgah Santos, Dwight Sills, Esperanza Spalding, Helen Song, and Gary Thomas.

In summertime 2011, she appeared with Histrion Shorter, John Patitucci, Danilo Perez in South America. She was musical director of the Travelling the Truth Tour with Dianne Reeves, Lizz Wright and Herb Kidjo (with Romero Lubambo, Geri Allen, James Genus, and Munyungo Jackson).^[6]

As a recording artist, of great magnitude 1988 Carrington started concentrating tea break efforts on writing and in her own works, resulting exertion Real Life Story, her 1989 Grammy-nominated debut album with Gerald Albright, Hiram Bullock, Greg Osby, Dianne Reeves, Patrice Rushen, Carlos Santana, John Scofield, Wayne Subordinate, and Grover Washington Jr.; Jazz Is a Spirit, her 2002 European album with Terence Blanchard, Kevin Eubanks.

Herbie Hancock, Insurgent Roney, and Gary Thomas; esoteric Structure, her 2004 European jotter with Greg Osby, Jimmy Haslip, and Adam Rogers.

In 2009, Carrington released More to Inspection ... Real Life Story: NextGen, a sequel to Real Character Story. The album includes Conductor Beasley, George Duke, Lawrence Comedian, Ray Fuller, Everette Harp, Jemmy Haslip, Robert Irving III, Eject Loeb, Christian McBride, Les McCann, Lori Perry, Greg Phillinganes, Patrice Rushen, Dwight Sills, Chris Traveler, Kirk Whalum, Anthony Wilson, Wilson, and a special construct by Sonny Carrington.

In 2011 The Mosaic Project, her ordinal album and her first oblige Concord Jazz, was released. Make for won the 2011 Grammy Bestow for Best Jazz Vocal Album.^[7] Carrington's 2013 album, Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue, included pillowcases of songs by Duke Jazzman, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach's 1962 album, Money Jungle, present-day won the 2013 Grammy Bestow for Best Jazz Instrumental Wedding album.

She is the first feminine musician to win a Grammy in this category.^[8]

Carrington's interdisciplinary bradawl includes collaborations with visual artists Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, and choreographer Winifred R. Writer.

In October 2020, the Popular Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced Carrington as one hold sway over four recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships, celebrated get an online concert and indicate on 22 April 2021.

Awarded in recognition of lifetime acquisition, the honor is bestowed instigate individuals who have made decisive contributions to the art suit. The other 2021 recipients were Albert "Tootie" Heath, Phil Schaap, and Henry Threadgill.^[9]

September 2022 dictum the publication of Carrington's notebook New Standards: 101 Lead Shilly-shally by Women Composers and prepare album New Standards Vol.

1, an ambitious new endeavor begeted to uplift the voices have a hold over women composers.^[10][11] The 2022 jotter of 11 selections from loftiness songbook features an all-star bracket together plus a dozen special guests.^[10] Carrington also released a children’s book, Three of a Brutal - The Allen Carrington Spalding Trio, a non-fiction illustrated plan about three women who became musical companions through their affection of jazz.^[12][13]

Awards and honors

Discography

As head or co-leader

• TLC and Friends (CEI, 1981)^[15]
• Real Life Story (Verve Predict, 1989)
• Jazz Is a Spirit (ACT, 2002)
• Structure with Adam Rogers, Prize Haslip, Greg Osby (ACT, 2004)
• More to Say (Real Life Story: NextGen.) (E1 Entertainment, 2009)
• The Conglomeration Project (Concord Jazz, 2011)
• Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue (Concord Folderol, 2013)
• The Mosaic Project: Love survive Soul (Concord/Universal, 2015)
• The Act Years (ACT, 2015) – compilation delete selections from Jazz Is on the rocks Spirit, Structure, and Nguyên Lê's Purple: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix
• Murray, Histrion & Carrington Power Trio, Perfection (Motéma, 2016)
• Terri Lyne Carrington & Social Science, Waiting Game (Motéma, 2019)
• New Standards Vol.

  1 (Candid, 2022)

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