Drummer extraordinaire Terri Lyne Carrington’s new multimedia project, New Standards, is getting as much press coverage as one could hope for regarding a jazz offering … Read More “Terri Lyne Carrington: new STANDARDS vol. 1 (Candid)”
The best live music takes you somewhere in the moment, though if we’re lucky there will be microphones on stage to capture the moments of … Read More “Wayne Shorter/Terri Lyne Carrington/Esperanza Spalding/Leo Genovese: Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival (Candid)”
It’s become a treat to discover what new three-piece rhythm section guitarist Matt Stevens and saxophonist Walter Smith III have assembled for their latest quintet … Read More “In Common: In Common III (Whirlwind)”
The year 2020 tarnished the Monterey Jazz Festival’s revered reputation as the world’s longest continuously running jazz festival (since 1958). Due to the pandemic, the … Read More “The 64th Monterey Jazz Festival”
The weather gods must have been in favor of Newport Jazz’s 2021 return. A superb first day of the festival was followed by an even … Read More “Newport Jazz 2021: Day 2”
There had never been anything like it before at Spoleto Festival USA—four consecutive days of 100-degree heat—and nothing like it before in Charleston, S.C., where … Read More “Live Review: Spoleto Festival USA 2019”
This year it made perfect sense for the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival to honor pianist, composer, and educator Geri Allen, who performed at the … Read More “Live Review: Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival Opening Night”
As great as saxophonist David Murray, pianist Geri Allen and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington are separately, it’s truly difficult to remember the last time any … Read More “Murray, Allen & Carrington Power Trio: Perfection”
Love and Soul is a natural, if not as satisfying, sequel to The Mosaic Project, the 2011 release that won drummer and bandleader Terri Lyne … Read More “Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project: Love and Soul”
On her 50th-anniversary tribute to the Duke Ellington-Charles Mingus-Max Roach sessions that produced the original Money Jungle, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington wisely chooses not to … Read More “Terri Lyne Carrington: Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue”
