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Terri Lyne Carrington: Renown Grammy-Award Jazz Drummer's Humanitarian Activist Focus

by Doug Hall
August 30, 2026

Our guest is the acclaimed Four-Time Grammy-award winning jazz drummer, band leader, educator, mentor and activist Terri Lyne Carrington, also the founder and artistic director of the Berklee College of Music's Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice.Terri shares here thoughts about her current recording project, the upcoming release Trip the Night Fantastic as well as her focus on the greater need of humanitarian action around the world.Terri also expands on the mission and hope for her ...

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Terri Lyne Carrington: A Dance Record For Dark Times

by Lawrence Peryer
August 15, 2026

This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on drummer, composer, and educator Terri Lyne Carrington. Carrington has just released Trip the Night Fantastic (Candid Records, 2026), the second album from her group, Social Science. It's built for the dance floor but unflinching on the topics of deportation, prison abolition, and climate collapse. We talk about trusting collaborators before they've earned it, playing to a rare, fully attentive crowd at Newport, and calling herself a “frustrated drummer" ...

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Hill Collective, Terri Lyne Carrington, Pharoah Sanders And More

by Lawrence Peryer
August 13, 2026

This week's Rotations deals in unfinished business, musical and otherwise. Charles Lloyd revisits a Mumbai session he started in 2009 and never finished. Piero Umiliani's old Rome tapes get a new life at the hands of a producer working from what he left behind. Pharoah Sanders and Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru's decades-old recordings sit easily next to brand-new records from Leeds and Boston that carry forward arguments about struggle, liberation, and what gets left for someone else to finish. Nothing ...

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New music from Terri Lyne Carrington+Social Science, Australia's The Scornful Four, Debut for Austin Trumpeter Rachel Spencer, and Stellar re-issues of Sir Roland Hanna as well as the Joshua Breakstone Quartet featuring Barry Harris

by Hobart Taylor
August 5, 2026

Latest tunes from Senri Oe, Charlotte Greves and Donald Vega... also Amber Weekes channels Oscar Brown, Jr. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Terri Lyne Carrington/Social Science “Solidarity Song" from Trip the Night Fantastic (Candid) 00:06 Nicki Adams/Michael Eaton/Francisco Mela “Daily Battles" from Arrival (577) 04:01 Sir Roland Hanna “Century Rag" from Songs of Hope, Inspirartion and Joy (IPO) 11:19 Host Speaks 16:40 Charlotte Greve “Swim" from Waterbodies (New Amsterdam) 18:06 Senri Oe “Pure Scars" from Homework (PND) 24:08 Rachel ...

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Musical Tribute To Martin Luther King Jr. Including Nina Simone, Mingus Big Band, and Others

by David W. Daniels
January 20, 2026

A musical tribute to the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with his words interspersed. Music from Nina Simone, Christian McBride, Jack DeJohnette, Terri Lyne Carrington with Christie Dashiel, and others about Dr. King and his call for freedom and justice. Playlist Nina Simone “Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead)" from 'Nuff Said! (RCA Victor) 00:00 Herbie Hancock “I Have A Dream" from The Prisoner (Blue Note) 13:58 Martin Luther King Jr “Must ...

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Jazz and Place: A Symposium and Walking Tour

by Paul Reynolds
November 21, 2025

Jazz and Place: Cities, Soundscapes, Venues The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University Symposium and walking tour New York, NY November 14, 2025 The roots of jazz in New Orleans; nascent big band in Kansas City; bebop in the clubs of New York and, later, freer sounds from downtown industrial lofts. The impetus for jazz has arisen not only from specific artists and record labels but from milieus--the cities, neighborhoods, subcultures, and venues ...

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Terri Lyne Carrington: Only An Open Hand Receives

by Leo Sidran
June 20, 2025

Terri Lyne Carrington started playing drums as a child in Boston. By the time she was 10, she was gigging with Clark Terry. At 11, she had a drum endorsement.By 20, she was already building a remarkable career. And by 30, she had worked with Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter--two of the most visionary artists of their generation.Today she is a Grammy Award-winning drummer, composer, producer, educator, and activist whose trailblazing career spans over four decades. ...