Terri Lyne Carrington

Terri Lyne Carrington当今爵士乐界货真价实的女性领军人物。她是最优秀的爵士鼓手之一，又是优秀作曲家与制作人。Terri的拿手好戏就是不断邀请不同音乐领域的优秀艺术家跨界合作，创造出传统爵士乐所无法达到的高度和广度，也赢得了更广范的观众群。她的最新专辑“The Mosaic Project”获得格莱美奖，专辑集结的“女子爵士大师班”在爵士乐界发出了女性最大的呼声。
虽然十岁就崭露音乐天分，又曾在20年内与Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter、Santana等大师合作演出，但是Terri事业真正的巅峰要数“The Mosaic Project”专辑。这是一张跨流派、跨文化、跨时代的专辑，21位数十年来最顶尖的女性爵士乐手在Terri Lyne Carrington的悉心经营下，炮製了这张紧凑、流畅又甚具创意的跨界爵士唱片。从手法来看，它显露出新一代“现代创新爵士”的思维，但又不失跨界的旨趣，水准奇高；从内容看，专辑歌曲诉说着历史与当今社会的女性故事，传达着不可估量的力量。
by Scott Yanow
Terri Lyne Carrington was a popular side player throughout the 1980s and 90s, and contributed her funky drum style to many different settings. Carrington was a bit of a prodigy, impressing many veteran jazz players while still a child, and was one of the first significant female drummers in jazz. Moving to New York City in the early 80s, she began to get gigs with many local muscians before gaining enough attention to warrant another move to California. It was there she was seen by millions on a nightly basis as a member of the band on the Arsenio Hall Show and worked well with Wayne Shorters late-80s band. But her debut recording as a leader (for Verve Forecast in 1989) was disappointingly lightweight. Into the late 90s, Carrington has continued working steadily and is heard best in funk settings, as exeplified by her work as a side player for Herbie Hancock. At the turn of the century, her second solo album began to take shape and was eventually released as Jazz Is a Spirit in 2002.