Jazz and Social Justice - Vol 19: Terri Lyne Carrington - Setting New Standards: Jazz, Gender and…

Drummer, composer, educator and NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington wants to transform jazz culture. She earned a full scholarship to Boston’s Berklee College of Music when she was just 11. At 57, she’s back there-as founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institutes of Jazz and Gender Justice, whose motto is “jazz without patriarchy.”
On her album new STANDARDS, vol. 1, a star-studded band plays new arrangements of 11 compositions written by women. Those songs, and 90 more, appear in her new book, New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers-a revisionist “Real Book” that presents an untold history of women composers, along with new “standards” for jazz musicians to play. She also curated a related multi-media installation for The Carr Center in Detroit, where she is artistic director, (October 14 through November 27), “Shifting the Narrative: Jazz and Gender Justice”-about which, Carrington says, “When you leave, you won’t be able to think about gender and jazz and be indifferent.”
At the museum, Carrington and series host Larry Blumenfeld will play excerpts from new STANDARDS, vol. 1. Along with panelist musician, composer, and producer Keyanna Hutchinson, and pianist-composer Marta Sanchez they’ll discuss these composers and the rich history represented by their music, as well as the process of transformation that can lead to equity in the field of jazz.

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Very important conversation. Thank you.