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Terri Lyne Carrington

Terri Lyne Carrington is a drummer, composer, producer, and educator whose leader projects connect ensemble writing, social themes, and jazz scholarship.

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Career Overview

About Terri Lyne Carrington

Carrington's official biography follows her from an early professional career and Berklee study into touring and recording with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and many other artists. Her own recordings place drumming, composition, production, and band leadership on equal footing.[1][3]

The Mosaic Project, Social Science, and New Standards each use a distinct ensemble to address who writes, performs, and is represented in jazz. That work extends into the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, educational publishing, installations, and the Next Jazz Legacy program.[1][2][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, drummer, composer, and producer

The Mosaic Project

Carrington assembled women instrumentalists and vocalists for a leader project that joins original music, arranged repertoire, and intergenerational collaboration.[1][2]

Co-leader, drummer, composer, and producer

Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science

The group with Aaron Parks and Matthew Stevens uses an expanded cast and a hybrid jazz, R&B, rock, improvising, and hip-hop palette to address social questions.[1][3]

Curator, drummer, producer, and educator

New Standards

Carrington's book, recording, and installation center compositions by women and connect repertoire-building with performance and institutional change.[1][3]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2011

The Mosaic Project

Leader, drummer, and producer

The album documents Carrington's all-women instrumental and vocal project through original music and arranged material.[1][2]

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2013

Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue

Leader, drummer, and producer

Carrington revisits the Ellington, Mingus, and Roach recording with a new trio and contemporary framing.[1][2]

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2019

Waiting Game

Social Science co-leader, drummer, composer, and producer

The double album introduces Social Science through songs and improvisations addressing political and social life.[1][3]

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Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Thu, Sep 24, 6:30 PM

Terri Lyne Carrington Celebrates Coltrane: Legacy of Love & Liberation

Mandell Theater at Drexel University · Philadelphia

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Fri, Sep 25, 9:00 PM

Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science at The Jazz Club

The Jazz Club · New York

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official biography and project overview

    Terri Lyne Carrington

  2. [2] Official recording catalog

    Terri Lyne Carrington

  3. [3] Faculty and institute biography

    Berklee College of Music