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Drummer, activist and educator Terri Lyne Carrington has published a groundbreaking new lead sheet book of 101 jazz compositions written exclusively by women, from Mary Lou Williams and Alice Coltrane to Esperanza Spalding and Maria Schneider and beyond. A companion album, “New Standards Vol. 1,” is the first in a series featuring some of those compositions as performed by Terri Lyne and her band along with special guests like Ambrose Akinmusire, Ravi Coltrane, Dianne Reeves, Samara Joy, Somi, and Julian Lage.
The members of the original 1990s Joshua Redman Quartet—Joshua on saxophone, Brad Mehldau on piano, Christian McBride on bass and Brian Blade on drums—reunited in 2020, 26 years after their 1994 debut album, for their Grammy-nominated disc, “RoundAgain.” They now return with the follow-up, “LongGone,” featuring another batch of Redman originals. Of his first group as a bandleader, which was together for approximately a year-and-a-half, Redman says, “They were, without a doubt, for our generation, among the most accomplished and innovative on their respective instruments. I knew better than anyone just how incredibly lucky I was to have even that short time with them.”
Also this week, guitarist Julian Lage and his trio are joined by special guest guitarist Bill Frisell for “View With a Room”;
D.C.-based guitarist Shawn Purcell dives deep into the classic tradition of the organ trio, celebrating his hard-bop heroes on “180”;
and the Ann Arbor-based trio Roe Bickley Kramer, featuring pianist Rick Roe, bassist Rob Bickley and drummer Jesse Kramer, unveil their third album, “Lucid Dream.”
Jazz Corner of the World Encore
Jazz Night in America