Terri Lyne Carrington
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| Background information | |
| Born | August 4, 1965 |
| Origin | Medford, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, R&B |
| Occupations | Drummer, singer, songwriter, record producer |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Labels | Concord Jazz, E1 Entertainment, Video Arts Music, Verve Forecast, ACT, GrooveJazz Media |
| Website | http://www.terrilynecarrington.com/ |
Terri Lyne Carrington (born 1965 in Medford, Massachusetts) is a jazz drummer, composer, record producer and entrepreneur. She has played with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and many more. For example, she has toured with each of Hancock's musical configurations (from electric to acoustic) between 1997 and 2007.
In 2007 she was appointed professor at her alma mater, Berklee College of Music, where she received an honorary doctorate in 2003.
Carrington also serves as Artistic Director of the Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival.
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[edit] Childhood
At 7, Carrington was given a set of drums which had belonged to her grandfather, Matt Carrington, who had played with Fats Waller and Chuck Berry. After studying privately for three years, she played her first major performance at the Wichita Jazz Festival with Clark Terry. At age 11 she received a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music. At 12 years old she was profiled on the PBS kids' biography program Rebop.
At Berklee College of Music she played with leading musicians such as Kevin Eubanks, Donald Harrison, Greg Osby and others. She also studied under master drum instructor Alan Dawson and made a private recording entitled, TLC and Friends, with Kenny Barron, Buster Williams, George Coleman and her father, Sonny Carrington, before turning 17.
Throughout high school she traveled across the country doing clinics at various schools and colleges.
[edit] Professional career
In 1983, encouraged by her mentor, Jack DeJohnette, Carrington moved to New York, where she worked with Stan Getz, James Moody, Lester Bowie, Pharoah Sanders, Cassandra Wilson, David Sanborn, and others.
In the late 1980s she relocated to Los Angeles, where she gained recognition on late night TV as the house drummer for "The Arsenio Hall Show", then again in the late 1990s as the drummer on the late night TV show "VIBE", hosted by Sinbad. In 1996 she collaborated with Peabo Bryson on "Always Reach For Your Dreams," a song commissioned for the 1996 Olympic Games.
[edit] Bandleader
As a bandleader, for more than two decades, Carrington has crafted an eclectic brand of jazz that incorporates elements of bebop, soul, funk and much more. She has established a reputation for assembling artists of varying styles and perspectives to create music that adheres to the traditions of jazz yet speaks to a much broader and more diverse audience. She has toured the United States, Europe and Japan performing her own music. Notably, in recent years, she has included Esperanza Spalding, Geri Allen, Helen Sung, James Genus, Bob Hurst, Patrice Rushen, Tineke Postma, Ingrid Jensen, Nona Hendryx, Chihiro, Everette Harp, Greg Phillinganes, Lori Perry, Robert Irving III, Dwight Sills, Lawrence Fields, Randy Runyon, Gary Thomas, Aruan Ortiz, and Munyungo Jackson in her band configurations. In Summer 2011, she appeared with Wayne Shorter (with John Pattituci and Danilo Perez) in South America, and is the Musical Director of the international "Sing The Truth" Tour ... featuring Dianne Reeves, Lizz Wright and Angelique Kidjo (with Romero Lubambo, Geri Allen, James Genus and Munyungo Jackson).
[edit] Recording artist
As a recording artist, in 1988 Carrington started concentrating her efforts on writing and producing her own works ... resulting in Real Life Story, her 1989 Grammy-nominated debut CD featuring Carlos Santana, Wayne Shorter, Grover Washington, Jr., Gerald Albright, John Scofield, Hiram Bullock, Patrice Rushen, Greg Osby, and Dianne Reeves, Jazz is a Spirit, her 2002 European CD featuring Herbie Hancock, Wallace Roney, Terence Blanchard, Kevin Eubanks and Gary Thomas, and Structure, her 2004 European CD with Jimmy Haslip, Greg Osby and Adam Rogers. Also, after a 20 year hiatus from U.S. recording, Carrington released the 2009 CD More to Say ... Real Life Story: NextGen, a sequel to her 1989 debut "Real Life Story" CD. The album features legends Nancy Wilson and Les McCann, George Duke, Kirk Whalum, Everette Harp, Christian McBride, Jimmy Haslip, Greg Phillinganes, Robert Irving III, Patrice Rushen, Chuck Loeb, Walter Beasley, Anthony Wilson, Lawrence Fields, Ray Fuller, Dwight Sills, Lori Perry and Chris Walker ... with a special appearance by Sonny Carrington.[1] Most of the 15 tracks on the CD are written or co-written by Carrington. In 2011, Carrington again brings her diverse sensibility to her new recording The Mosaic Project, an album that once again gathers a myriad of voices and crystallizes them into a multi-faceted whole that far outweighs the sum of its parts. The Mosaic Project, Carrington’s fifth album overall and her first on Concord Jazz, is scheduled for release on July 19, 2011.[2]
[edit] Entrepreneur
As an entrepreneur, Carrington is a partner in Hebert-Carrington Media (HCM). Founded in 2007 and based in Atlanta, Boston, New Jersey, Washington, DC, Chicago, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, HCM's[3] origins can be traced to the long-term relationships with company co-founder: Robert A. Hebert, Esq., High Tech entrepreneurs Frank White, Jr. and Dr. Bernard Yaged, and top Media and Communications advisor Don Lucoff of DL Media. HCM is focused on new business models for the communications and media industry, with the mission of exploring the right, flexible combinations of art and commerce to ensure it will thrive in the emerging New Media industry environment. Through its HCM Digital Team, the company can meet its vision of creating, producing, marketing, selling and delivering timeless, entertaining and informative media via all existing communications channels. HCM has relationships with Concord Music, E1 Entertainment, Pony Canyon (Japan), Video Arts Music (Japan), Herbie Hancock, Toninho Horta, Oscar Castro-Neves, Arthur Maia, Romero Lubambo, Robert Irving III, Mitchel Forman, Helen Sung, Darryl Jones, and Vince Wilburn/Miles Davis Properties. Through its label brands, e.g., GrooveJazz Media, over several years HCM has carefully organized the requisite creative, business and technical infrastructure needed to deliver world-class media authored by highly creative artists. The company's mission includes the development of young talent in Brazil and the U.S.
[edit] Partial discography
- Real Life Story (1989)
- Jazz is a Spirit (2002)
- Structure (2004)
- More to Say (2009)
- The Mosaic Project (2011)
As drummer :
- Herbie Hancock : Gershwin's World
- Rufus Reid : Seven Minds
- Mulgrew Miller : Work, Chapters 1 & 2: Keys to the City
- Michele Rosewoman : Quintessense
- Dianne Reeves : I Remember, Art & Survival, Quiet After The Storm, That Day
- Niels Lans Doky : Daybreak
- Doky Brothers : Doky Brothers, Vol 1 & 2
- John Scofield : Flat Out, Liquid Fire
- Cassandra Wilson : Blue Skies
- Rachel Z : Room Of One's Own
- Wayne Shorter : Joy Ryder, High Life
- Patrice Rushen : Anything But Ordinary
- John Patitucci : Sketchbook
- Eric Marienthal : Crossroads
- John Beasley : Change of Heart
- Nino Tempo : Live At Cicada
- Michael Wolff : 2 AM
- James Moody : Moody's Birthday Celebration, Live At The Blue Note, Moody Plays Mancini
[edit] References
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "Ben Williams - State Of Art". Mediakits.concordmusicgroup.com. http://mediakits.concordmusicgroup.com/33016/. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
- ^ "Welcome to Hebert Carrington Media". Hebert-carrington-media.com. 2011-07-19. http://www.hebert-carrington-media.com. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
