Terri Lyne Carrington
Terri Lyne Carrington (* August 4, 1965 in Medford, Massachusetts) is an American jazz drummer, composer and producer, in addition she teaches at the Berklee College of Music and runs his own label.
Even as a child played Carrington, which is often referred to as a child prodigy, with jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Oscar Peterson and Joe Williams. Later Carrington worked in addition to their solo projects as a drummer and sometimes a producer for artists such as Diana Krall, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. The jazz author and journalist Scott Yanow described it as "one of the first important percussionists in jazz. "
Life and work
Terri Lyne Carrington was born into a family of musicians. Her grandfather, Matt Carrington, was the drummer for Fats Waller and Chu Berry, her father, Sonny Carrington, saxophonist for James Brown. Even as a five year old could play saxophone Carrington, as a seven- year-old - the age-related loss of the incisors made her the saxophone performance impossible - it took over the drums of her grandfather, who died six months before her birth. My first teacher was the drummer Alan Dawson, the drummer Tony Williams, Steve Smith and Jeff Tain Watts taught.
1975 - at the age of ten years - she had her first major appearance at the Wichita Jazz Festival with Clark Terry. The following year, Alma and Lawrence Berk, co-founder of Berklee College of Music in Boston, Carrington heard at a jam session with Oscar Peterson's backing band, they were so excited that they gave Carrington a full scholarship. About the drummer Buddy Rich got Carrington at the age of twelve years, an endorsement deal with Zildjian, she was the youngest artist who has been supported by Zildjian. In a TV show Rich 's opinion of the then eleven year old:
" It sounds as if they would know what they are doing."
First Carrington visited once a week after school the Berklee College. With Kenny Barron, Buster Williams, George Coleman and her father at the age of 16, she took on a private album with the title TLC and Friends. After her high school graduation she studied three semesters full-time at Berklee College. During this time she met musicians such as Kevin Eubanks, Mike Stern, Branford Marsalis, Pat Metheny, Greg Osby and others know and worked with them.
At that time, she also met the drummer Jack DeJohnette know and became friends with him and his wife Lydia. DeJohnette on Carrington:
" Terri Lyne Carrington was not a student - she showed up and hung out with us around. She was already a pro. I love them. She composes, sings and plays great. "
Encouraged by DeJohnette went Carrington in 1983 to New York City where she worked among others with Stan Getz, James Moody, Lester Bowie, Pharoah Sanders, Cassandra Wilson and David Sanborn. Saxophonist Wayne Shorter described his first encounter with Carrington in an interview in 1987 as follows:
"She came in, sat down, haute only once on the snare ( he imitates the sound with wide eyes ) and since I already knew: Hey, that's exactly what I was looking for."
In 1989, she moved to Los Angeles and became drummer of the band the Arsenio Hall Show. She also toured with Mike Stern, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter.
Also published in 1989, Carrington her first album, Real Life Story, which was produced by her and Robert Irving III and was released on PolyGram, on the album appeared next to Carrington Wayne Shorter, Dianne Reeves, Hiram Bullock, Carlos Santana, Patrice Rushen, John Scofield, Grover Washington, Jr. and Gerald Albright. The largest part of the title of the album was also composed by Carrington. It was nominated for a Grammy Award and reached number three on the Top Contemporary Jazz Albums Billboard magazine.
In the aftermath Carrigngton worked not only as a drummer, but also as a composer and producer, inter alia, with Gino Vannelli, Dianne Reeves, Siedah Garrett, Marilyn Scott, the Danish pop singers Stig Rossen and Monique and Chris Minh Doky jazz musicians Niels Lan Doky and ( Doky Brothers). Produced by Carrington Dianne Reeves album That Day (1997) was nominated for a Grammy. Carrington in 2001 on its activities as a producer:
" Drummer bring something special into the world of production, which is dominated by keyboard players. You have a great sense of structures for how a song must flow. "
International success brought her employees 1998 - together with Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder - to Herbie Hancock album Gershwin 's World. The album won the Grammy Award 1999 in the category Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group. As a result, they also participated in the European tour of Hancock's Future 2 Future project.
In 2002 he released the album Jazz Is a Spirit, in which, alongside her band - Adam Rogers ( guitar), Jimmy Haslip (bass) and Greg Osby (saxophone) - also Herbie Hancock, Gary Thomas, Wallace Roney, Terence Blanchard and Kevin Eubanks participated. The major part of the title has been written by Carrington. The title Jazz Is a Spirit is a quote from the jazz singer Abbey Lincoln from a panel discussion on the topic of jazz. The album was released by the German label ACT by Siegfried Loch, it appeared in Germany in February 2002, while it was available only in September in the U.S.. The contact hole had over the French guitarist Nguyên Lê Carrington - on its 2003 album Purple: - built Celebrating Jimi Hendrix she was involved.
In October 2002, Terri Lyne Carrington, donated by Zildjian Endowed Scholarship was awarded for the first time at Berklee College. The scholarship is awarded exclusively to female instrumentalists.
In September 2003, Carrington who also teaches at the University of Southern California drums received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music.
Was published in 2004 with their third album as a leader Structure. It was recorded in the same main cast as Jazz Is a Spirit and be published on the ACT. While Jazz Is a Spirit - of up to actor Malcolm -Jamal Warner ( The Cosby Show ) spoken part of the title song - an instrumental album, Carrington makes its appearance on Structure with Joni Mitchell Ethiopia as a singer.
Since 2005 she is a lecturer in the Faculty of Percussion Berklee College.
Together with the pianist and keyboardist Robert Irving III, with whom she already produced her first album Real Life Story, Carrington founded in 2007, the label Sonic Portraits. The first release of Sonic Portraits was Irving's album New Momentum that was co-produced by Carrington. As early as 1991 Carrington explained in an interview with Berklee Today that the establishment of an independent label one of its objectives was:
" My ultimate goal is to have his own record label, to be an important record boss. Since there have been no women and there was so far not very many blacks. My goal, long, long time is to long to be like David Geffen and Herb Alpert. "
2011 Carrington released the album The Mosaic Project, in which numerous well-known musicians participated as a singer. Which won her first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album of the Year. Two years later appeared with Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue a solo instrumental album, for which she received another Grammy in 2014.
Equipment
Carrington has endorsement contracts with the companies Zildjian ( drumsticks and cymbals), Yamaha ( boiler) and Remo ( skins ). The setup of Carrington's drums varies by performance. In general, they used a 22 " or 20 " bass drum, three to five tom-toms (usually 10 ", 12 ", 14 " and 16", occasionally 8 ") and a wooden snare. Berger prefers maple. Deciding factor in choosing the materials for boilers and skins for Carrington is a " warm sound ". Moreover, they used a 15 "Hi-Hat, and several crash, splash and ride cymbals that were made partly according to their wishes. As Sticks Carrington uses the Terri -Lyne Carrington - Signature Sticks Hickory.
Quotes
" From me is hands down, that I should have always told as a child: Jazz makes me happy. "
Recordings (selection)
Footnotes
" Carrington [ ... ] what one of the first significant female drummers in jazz. "
"She sounds like she knows what she 's doing. "
" Terri Lyne Carrington really was not a student - I mean Terri just came up and hung out. She was already a pro. I love her. She composes, sings, plays great. "
" Drummers bring something unique to the production world, Which Tends to be dominated by keyboard players. They have a great sense of structure, of how a song shoulderstand flow. "
"My ultimate goal is to have my own label, to be a major record company person. There have not been any women, and there have not been too many black people. My long, long, long term goal is to be like David Geffen or Herb Alpert. "