Drummer

Celebrate the electrifying finale of WoCo Fest 2024: Evolve with jazz legend, Terri Lyne Carrington. Terri Lyne is a four-time Grammy Award-winning drummer, producer, and educator, and has performed on more than 100 recordings spanning her 40-year career. She has worked tirelessly to fight for inclusivity and elevate the voice of women, trans, and non-binary jazz musicians, serving as the Founder and Artistic Director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. Experience the thrill of New Standards, a project that kicks down the doors of the jazz patriarchy and celebrates women’s incredible contributions to the jazz canon, past and present, by bringing them to the mainstage.

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WoCo Fest 2024 Evolve: Terri Lyne Carrington New Standards

AMP by Strathmore

This tribute concert honors the life and legacy of the great jazz innovator, composer, bandleader, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter who passed away in March 2023. These performances feature five longtime Shorter collaborators in their BSO debuts, including the Grammy Award-winning bassist and vocalist esperanza spalding. spalding wrote the libretto for Shorter’s 2022 opera …(Iphigenia), which was premiered in Boston in 2021 and is based on the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides.

Celebrating the Symphonic Legacy of Wayne Shorter

Boston Symphony Hall

Called a “true titan of jazz” (Forbes), Terri Lyne Carrington is an NEA Jazz Master and three-time Grammy Award-winning drummer, producer, and educator. Beginning her remarkable professional career at 10 years old in Boston, she has been driven by her phenomenal musicality and her passion for inclusivity and elevating the voices of women, trans, and non-binary people in jazz.

Terri Lyne Carrington

University of California, Los Angeles

The GRAMMY® nominated vocal supergroup, säje, is the brainchild of vocalist/composers Sara Gazarek, Amanda Taylor, Johnaye Kendrick, and Erin Bentlage. Traversing a vast array of compelling original material, beloved jazz standards, and contemporary re-imaginings of artists such as The Bad Plus, YEBBA, and Björk, the all-female collective has demonstrated their devotion to thoughtful, sophisticated original compositions and heartfelt covers. Their highly anticipated debut album was just released, and features new original work and compelling covers, highlighting collaborations with artists Jacob Collier, Terri Lyne Carrington, Ambrose Akinmusire, and more.

Säje

Spa Little Theatre

Terri Lyne Carrington, a professor in the ensemble department, presents Jazz and Gender Justice Ensembles.

2023 Spring Ensembles: Jazz and Gender Justice Ensembles

David Friend Recital Hall

Outstanding activist, educator, and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and her band Social Science appear on the Celebrity Series this season, two years after earning a Grammy nomination for their album, Waiting Game. Other guests join the group for a multi-dimensional vocal and instrumental musical experience.

Carrington is the artistic director and founder of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. 

Terri Lyne Carrington

Drummer

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Past events

Apr 14, 2024

WoCo Fest 2024 Evolve: Terri Lyne Carrington New Standards · Boulanger Initiative

21 - 23 Mar, 2024

Celebrating the Symphonic Legacy of Wayne Shorter · Boston Symphony Orchestra

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