Terri Lyne Carrington Quartet feat. James Genus, Support: The Ronnie Scotts All Stars Friday 22nd January - Saturday 23rd January

Line up; Terri Lyne Carrington: drums, Tineke Postma: saxophone, Helen Sung: piano, James Genus: bass

Terri Lyne Carrington developed and honed the skills that now identify her as one of the world’s great contemporary jazz drummers while playing during her youth with musicians like Clark Terry, Oscar Peterson, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Dianne Reeves and later performing with Pharoah Sanders, James Moody, Lester Bowie, and Stan Getz. For the last fifteen years, she has forged an impressive career working with her own bands, as a sideperson (with great jazzmen like Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, as a composer, arranger and producer. She has also played with Al Jarreau, David Sanborn and Cassandra Wilson. In the process she has staged exciting encounters between the traditional and the avant-garde, between the classical and the popular, between jazz, funk and rock.

MUSICIAN BIOGRAPHIES:

Tineke Postma Biography

Tineke Postma (August 31 1978, Heerenveen, NL) is a well- known musician in the Dutch and international jazz world. During her college years at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, she received two scolarships to study at the Manhattan School for
Music in New York, where she was taught by Dick Oatts, David Liebman and Chris Potter. In 2003,Tineke gratuaded with  Honors at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where she has been teaching since 2005.
 
Tineke plays fresh modern jazz and is inspired by Wayne Shorter, Cannonball Adderly, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and other great musicians, without ignoring her own creativity. Her compositions have been acknowledged with several awards, among which the prestigious Midem “ International Jazz Revelation of the Year Award”  in (2006  which had been broadcasted live and nationwide on the French tv, channel France 3), the “ Jazz All Star Award” (2003) And the Dutch awards: Langs de Lijn Award (2007), Singer Laren Jazz Award (2002),Heijmans Award (2004). In 2008, Tineke had been nominated for another prestigious Dutch Prize: the Notenkraker Award. This year, 2009, she has been nominated for the Paul Acket Award by the North Sea Jazz organisation.

HELEN SUNG BIO
Winner of the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Piano Competition, pianist Helen Sung has been called “one of the brightest emerging stars in jazz today.”  Breaking stereotypes as an Asian-American artist and composer, Sung’s experience with classical, jazz, & popular music gives her a compelling, unique voice.   A graduate of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, she has gone on to work with luminaries including Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Jon Faddis, Wayne Shorter, Steve Turre, Steve Wilson, and McArthur Fellow Regina Carter.  She is also a budding bandleader with three albums to her credit – Helenistique was praised as “one of the year’s most exciting listens.” (JazzTimes), and her latest CD Sungbird after Albéniz, a jazz-classical adventure, is being hailed “a real winner” (All About Jazz).  Sung has been featured on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, and with recent appearances at the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Festival; the Clifford Brown Festival; the Jazz Lucca Donna Festival (Italy); and a special duo concert with master bassist Ron Carter at New York City’s Rubin Museum, she is poised for the international stage – her band project NuGenerations was selected as a 2009 US State Department-Rhythm Road ensemble and toured Africa as musical ambassadors.

Terri Lyne Carrington bio (2009)

Drummer, composer, producer and clinician. Terri Lyne Carrington, was born in 1965 in Medford, Massachusetts. After an extensive touring career of over 20 years with luminaries like Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Al Jarreau, Stan Getz, David Sanborn, Joe Sample, Cassandra Wilson, Clark Terry, Dianne Reeves and more, she recently returned to her hometown where she was appointed professor at her alma mater, Berklee College of Music. Terri Lyne also received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music in 2003.

After studying under full scholarship at Berklee, with the encouragement of her mentor, Jack DeJohnette, Terri Lyne moved to New York in 1983. For 5 years she was a much in-demand musician, working with James Moody, Lester Bowie, Pharoah Sanders, and others. In the late 80's she relocated to Los Angeles, where she gained recognition on late night TV as the house drummer for the "Arsenio Hall Show," then again in the late 90's as the drummer on the Quincy Jones late night TV show, "VIBE," hosted by Sinbad.

In 1989, Ms. Carrington released a Grammy nominated debut CD entitled "Real Life Story," which featured Carlos Santana, Grover Washington Jr., Dianne Reeves, Wayne Shorter, Patrice Rushen, Gerald Albright, John Scofield, Robert Irving III, Greg Osby, Don Alias and Hiram Bullock. Other solo CDs include 2002’s "Jazz is a Spirit," which features Herbie Hancock, Gary Thomas, Wallace Roney, Terence Blanchard, Kevin Eubanks, and Bob Hurst, and 2004's "Structure," a cooperative group which features Adam Rogers, Jimmy Haslip and Greg Osby. Both CDs were released on the Europe-based ACT Music label, and enjoyed considerable media attention and critical acclaim in the European and Japanese markets.

Her production collaborations with artists such as Gino Vannelli, Peabo Bryson, Dianne Reeves, Siedah Garrett, Marilyn Scott have produced notable works as well, including a special song commissioned by the Atlanta Committee for the 1996 Olympic Games, "Always Reach for Your Dreams," (featuring Peabo Bryson), and her production of the Dianne Reeves Grammy-nominated CD, “That Day," which hovered at the top of the music charts for many months.

Terri Lyne has played on many recordings throughout the 80's and 90's thru today. Notable examples of her work include Herbie Hancock's Grammy winning CD "Gershwin's World" where she played alongside Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder. She has toured with each of Mr. Hancock's musical configurations (from electric to acoustic) over the last 10 years and is featured on his "Future2Future" DVD.

After a hiatus from the U.S. recording scene as a solo recording artist, on May 19, 2009 Terri Lyne will be returning with More To Say... (Real Life Story: NextGen). She performs with friends and colleagues with whom she has been working with in her 20-year-plus career. Joining Carrington for the meticulously produced More to Say is an impressive all-star cast of jazz and contemporary jazz instrumentalists, including George Duke, Everette Harp, Kirk Whalum, Jimmy Haslip, Greg Phillinganes, Gregoire Maret, Christian McBride, Danilo Perez, Patrice Rushen, Robert Irving III (who also serves as co-producer), Chuck Loeb, Walter Beasley, Ray Fuller, Dwight Sills, Anthony Wilson, and a special appearance by her dad, Sonny Carrington, playing tenor sax on “Papa-san.” Additionally, Carrington enlists the talents of two jazz legends for rare and classic performances - Les McCann on “Hold Me Again” and Nancy Wilson on “Imagine This.”

Terri Lyne currently serves as Artistic Director for the Beantown Jazz Festival in Boston, MA.