Terri Lyne Carrington

Terri Lyne Carrington began playing drums when she was seven, performed with pioneering jazz flugel hornist Clark Terry at ten, and was awarded a scholarship to the Berklee College Of Music at age eleven. Her list of credits includes the likes of Lester Bowie, Stan Getz, Woody Shaw, David Sanborn, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, and Herbie Hancock. As a bandleader, Carrington’s triple decade spanning repertoire includes the Grammy award-winning album The Mosaic Project, Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue, and her Grammy-nominated set with Social Science titled Waiting Game. NEW STANDARDS, VOL 1, her 2022 release, is nominated for Best Instrumental Jazz Album in the 65th Annual GRAMMY® Awards. Carrington currently serves as Founder and Artistic Director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice.