Terri Lyne Carrington is a NEA Jazz Master, Doris Duke Artist, and four-time Grammy award-winning drummer, composer, producer, and educator. She serves as founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, as well artistic director for both the Next Jazz Legacy program (a collaboration with New Music USA). She has performed on more than 100 recordings, and has toured and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Stan Getz, Esperanza Spalding, and many others. Carrington holds honorary doctorates from York University, Manhattan School of Music and Berklee College of Music. The renowned 2019 release Waiting Game from Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science earned the Edison Award for music and a Grammy nomination. She has authored two books, Three of a Kind (about the forming of the Allen Carrington Spalding trio) and New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers. The latter was accompanied by the Grammy winning album New Standards Vol.1 (Candid Records), and New Standards art installation, presented at Detroit’s Carr Center, Emerson Contemporary Media Art Gallery (Boston), and Arena Stage (Washington D.C.), as part of the Jazz Without Patriarchy project. Last year she released critically acclaimed album We Insist 2025!, a poignant re-imagining of Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite, which notably featured Abbey Lincoln. The highly celebrated album reflects upon the past, while challenging the present. It both honors Roach’s original masterpiece and furthers Carrington’s passion for using jazz as a tool for social activism. Autumn of 2026 Terri Lyn Carrington + Social Science drop a brand new thought provoking, body moving and make no bones about it an awakening of an album Trip The Night Fantastic on Candid Records.
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