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Williams Jazz Festival - Terri Lyne Carrington Quartet

Sat, April 29th, 2023
7:00 pm

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The Saturday segment of the Williams Jazz Festival offers an evening of stellar small student ensembles followed by the groundbreaking Terri Lyne Carrington Quartet in the CenterStage of the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance on April 29. Audiences are required to mask in this venue.

The evening starts with compositions by the late great Wayne Shorter, as well as selections from Terri Lyne Carrington’s book New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets By Women Composers. Two outstanding student combos, coached by Williams faculty Kris Allen and Gregg August, each offer a twenty minute set of fresh approaches to these masterworks.

Terri Lyne Carrington is joined by Matthew Stevens, guitar; Linda May Han Oh, bass; and Walter Smith, saxophone.

Terri Lyne Carrington Trio
Terri Lyne Carrington is an NEA Jazz Master, Doris Duke Artist, and three-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 Next Jazz Legacy program (a collaboration with New Music USA) and the Carr Center in Detroit, MI. She has performed on more than 100 recordings over her 40-year career and has toured and recorded with luminaries such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Stan Getz, Esperanza Spalding, and numerous others. Her artistry and commitment to education has earned her honorary doctorates from York University, Manhattan School of Music and Berklee College of Music, and her curatorial work and music direction has been featured in many prestigious institutions internationally. The critically acclaimed 2019 release, Waiting Game, from Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science earned the esteemed Edison Award for music and a Grammy nomination. In fall of 2022, she authored two books, Three of a Kind (about the forming of the Allen Carrington Spalding trio) and the seminal songbook collection, New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets By Women Composers, accompanied by the album new STANDARDS vol.1 (Candid Records) and installation, New Standards, at Detroit’s Carr Center, as part of the Jazz Without Patriarchy Project.

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