In nearly 35 years of career, the composer, band leader and Berklee College of Music professor Terri Lyne Carrington has established herself as an authority on jazz drumming. This new project could be heard as the sum of her experience, as a woman and a musician in a world of men and composers. Strictly speaking, it’s high class, the virtuoso and his quintet counting on the play of distinguished guests — Ambrose Akinmusire, Ravi Coltrane, Dianne Reeves, among others — to flesh out a proposal which, on paper, already deserves all our admiration. The eleven compositions gathered on this beautiful album were all composed by women, such as Abbey Lincoln (throw it awayin Afro-Latin colours) and Brandee Younger (respected Destroyer, showcasing the immense talent of the young flautist Elena Pinderhughes). These are, Carrington professes, “new standards” in jazz, a classical repertoire composed mostly by men. Strongly the continuation, on disc.
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