Released in 2006 on his independent BPM label, In A Mellow Tone finds legendary keyboardist, composer, and producer George Duke stepping back from his signature electric funk sound to deliver a rich, acoustic-driven jazz date. Stripping down to pristine grand piano and Fender Rhodes, Duke revisits a lifetime of influences through swinging standards, delicate ballads, and re-imagined original classics. Supported by a stellar rhythm section—featuring virtuosic drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and acoustic bass master Brian Bromberg—the session effortlessly shifts from Duke Ellington's title track and Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" to Sergio Mendes' "So Many Stars." The album also revisits Duke's hit ballad "Sweet Baby" in a relaxed acoustic setting, backed by fine horn solos from Everette Harp and Dennis Farias alongside percussion accents by Airto Moreira and Munyungo Jackson.

On Exile's Gate, the fiercely uncompromising American tenor saxophonist and M-Base architect Gary Thomas leads an all-star vanguard crew through a dense, muscular, and masterfully dark studio document. Released in 1993 by Stefan Winter’s visionary Jazz Music Today (JMT) label, this towering milestone bridges the razor-sharp geometric phrasing of progressive post-bop with heavy, street-level rhythmic friction and haunting organ-trio foundations. Spanning over 56 minutes of immaculate high-fidelity spatial design, the 7-track landscape operates with an intense, intricate, and relentlessly driving kinetic energy. The album shifts through brilliant, alternating lineup configurations, firing off jagged collective movements like the cascading title track Exile's Gate, a blistering rhythmic display behind Jack DeJohnette on Kulture Bandits, and radical, brooding deconstructions of classic standards like Night and Day and McCoy Tyner's Blues on the Corner. Driven by Thomas's muscular, hyper-articulate reed runs, the dual Hammond organ textures of Charles Covington and Tim Murphy, and a powerhouse rhythm pocket anchored by Terri Lyne Carrington and DeJohnette, this pristine archive remains an indispensable masterpiece for serious avant-garde purists and creative jazz collectors worldwide.

On The Mosaic Project, the masterful American jazz drummer, composer, and producer Terri Lyne Carrington assembles an absolute league of extraordinary female musical visionaries to deliver a profound, multi-textured, and historically brilliant masterclass. Released in 2011 by Concord Jazz, this monumental Grammy-winning studio document stands as a towering celebration of female creative kinship, seamlessly stitching together intricate modern post-bop architectures, soulful crossover rhythms, and deep vocal jazz poetry. Spanning nearly 72 minutes of immaculate high-fidelity audio design, the 14-track landscape operates with an expansive, brilliantly interactive, and sharp kinetic energy. The tracklist maps a stunning sonic journey, firing off heavy-grooving transformations of Nona Hendryx's Transformation, an elegant trio update of Geri Allen's Unconditional Love, and a breathtaking fleet of vocal masterworks featuring jazz royalty like Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, and Dee Dee Bridgewater alongside the brilliant bass work of Esperanza Spalding. Driven by Carrington's crisp, commanding drum pockets, lush horn lines, and sophisticated piano arrangements, this pristine archive remains an indispensable, forward-thinking monument for contemporary jazz purists and serious collectors worldwide.

Four-time GRAMMY-winning, NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington and GRAMMY-nominated vocalist Christie Dashiell present We Insist 2025!, a bold reimagining of the seminal 1961 album We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite.

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 Nguyen Le'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.

Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue is an album by Terri Lyne Carrington. It won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.
Drummer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington won a Grammy in 2012 for her genre-blurring Mosaic Project, which blended the voices and instruments of an all-female cast in a series of bold musical statements. Here Carrington turns her sights toward revisioning a legendary meeting of jazz minds on the recording of 1963's Money Jungle by Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach. Accompanied by pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Christian McBride, and a host of guests, Carrington not only reinterprets that album, she adds to its discourse with two of her own compositions and another by Clayton…

The combination of Greg Osby with Terri Lyne Carrington is quite logical. Altoist Osby, an original innovator with the M-Base movement (which explored free-form funk) has a very original improvising style. Since Carrington has always loved funk, as has electric bassist Jimmy Haslip (of the Yellowjackets), this match-up works quite well. Osby's interplay with guitarist Adam Rogers is also a major plus. Other than a Joni Mitchell piece ("Ethiopia") that the drummer sings, the repertoire is comprised of group originals. Whether it be overt funky pieces, brooding ballads or the well-titled "Fire," the music is explorative, unpredictable and usually grooving. Well worth exploring by fans of creative funk/jazz.

For the 2018 opening celebration of the Berklee Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice, Teri Lyne Carrington asked her students to select and perform songs from the famed jazz Real Book - a compilation of lead sheets or scores of jazz standards - written by women composers. When she released there was only one in the entire book, Carrington, a Grammy Award winning virtuoso jazz drummer, composer, inter-disciplinary artist, activist and educator, who has worked tirelessly over the last decade to advocate for inclusivity and raise the voice of women, trans and non-binary people in jazz, set out to shift the narrative.

Wayne Shorter is arguably the greatest living jazz composer and a key participant in some of the most iconic jazz recordings of all time, here he is joined on stage by an all star band - each of the musicians leaders and jazz icons in their own right. The record also pays tribute to the late Geri Allen, who composed some of the material. Recorded Live At The 2017 Detroit Jazz Festival.

Terri Lyne Carrington's dual identity as an extraordinary progressive jazz drummer and powerful in-the-pocket groove driver has been presented on her previous recordings. While straddling those lines appeals to different audiences, this CD reverts back to her more commercial roots from 20 years ago, centering on the contemporary, rhythm & blues oriented side of music from an instrumental standpoint.