Terri Lyne Carrington

Terri Lyne Carrington is a Grammy-winning drummer whose style ranges across jazz, soul, funk, rock, blues, and even crossover classical. She released Real Life Story, her Grammy-nominated debut, in 1989, and spent the next 12 years as a first-call session drummer. Following 2002's Jazz Is a Spirit, she began leading her own bands. In 2011, Grammy-winning The Mosaic Project straddled jazz and R&B with a cast of women. The following year, she won a Grammy for Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue. 2015's Mosaic Project: Love and Soul landed at the top of the jazz charts, while 2022's New Standards, Vol. 1 featured tunes written by women. For We Insist 2025!, Carrington teamed up with vocalist Christie Dashiell, reinterpreting 1961's We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite. With her band Social Science, she explores politically conscious themes, as on 2019's The Waiting Game and 2026's Trip the Night Fantastic.