Terri Lyne Carrington — The ACT Years (2015)

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      ^{Terri Lyne Carrington — The ACT Years (2015)}
Location: Medford ~ Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Album release:
Record Label: ACT Records
Duration:     64:48
Tracks:
01. Jazz Is a Spirit      3:45
02. Manic Depression      5:27
03. Ethiopia      6:20
04. Journey of Now      4:15
05. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)      6:42
06. Omega      5:21
07. Burning of the Midnight Lamp      3:40
08. Purple Haze      5:20
09. Mindful Intent      5:32
10. Middle Way      6:55
11. Samsara (For Wayne)      7:25
12. If 6 Was 9      4:06
Personnel:
Ξ   Herbie Hancock / piano
Ξ   Nguyên Lê / guitar
Ξ   Greg Osby / alto saxophone
Ξ   Adam Rogers / guitar
Ξ   Jimmy Haslip / bass
Ξ   Terence Blanchard / trumpet
and many more (website: http://www.terrilynecarrington.com/)
Description:
Ξ   Terri Lyne Carrington is one of the world s most–sought after drummers and one of jazz s leading female media figures. Her recording and touring with Herbie Hancock and Dianne Reeves have elicited rave reviews internationally. In addition to her recording and international performing, she is renowned for her role as a producer and jazz educator. She has won Grammy Awards both for Best Jazz Vocal Album (2011) and Best Jazz Instrumental Album (2013). This compilation includes tracks from Carrington's two ACT albums as a leader, and from Nguyên Lê´s Jimi Hendrix tribute album Purple, on which she played in Le's quartet. Musicians featuring on the repertoire include Wallace Roney, Greg Osby, Meshell Ndegeocello, Terence Blanchard, Herbie Hancock, Gary Thomas, Kevin Eubanks and many more. Discography: As leader:
•• Real Life Story (Verve Forecast, 1989)
•• Jazz Is a Spirit (ACT, 2002)
•• Structure (ACT, 2004)
•• More to Say (Real Life Story: NextGen.) (E1 Entertainment, 2009)
•• The Mosaic Project (Concord Jazz, 2011) *Grammy Winner
•• Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue (Concord Jazz, 2013) *Grammy Winner                         © Terri Lyne Carrington, Photo credit: Tracy Love
Review
John Fordham
Thursday 28 May 2015 18.44 BST, Score: ****
Ξ   US drummer/composer Terri Lyne Carrington has lent her signature mix of rock power, jazz hipness and relaxed precision to many big–time jazz leaders, but her own world–music leanings went down better in Europe than in the US for two decades until her Grammy for The Mosaic Project in 2011. But her musicianship always attracted stars, and the 2002 — 2004 tracks on this fine compilation from Munich’s ACT label include Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Greg Osby and guitarists Kevin Eubanks and Nguyên Lê. Choosing to make Jazz Is a Spirit — which is a little reminiscent of The Fast Show’s “jazz club” sketches — the album opener was perhaps an unwise choice, but elsewhere the ferocious east–west guitar virtuosity of Lê’s 2002 Jimi Hendrix project with Carrington balances cool–Miles/Wayne Shorter postbop from Hancock and horn players Terence Blanchard and Gary Thomas, and some spine–tingling interventions from French–Malian singer Aida Khann. The tumultuously Africanised Voodoo Child might make you jump out of your seat.http://www.theguardian.com/ // Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerriLyneCarrington
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