Terri Lyne Carrington is one of the most popular and richest Drummer who was born on August 4, 1965 in Medford, Massachusetts, United States. Grammy award-winning jazz musician has performed with musicians such as Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer who has played with artists like Stan Getz, Wayne Shorter, and Joe Sample., Wayne Shorter as well as Joe Sample.
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Terri Lyne Carrington (born August 4, 1965) is an American jazz drummer, composer, singer, record producer, educator, and entrepreneur. She has played with Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and many others. She toured with each of Hancock’s musical configurations (from electric to acoustic) between 1997 and 2007.
In 1983, encouraged by her mentor, Jack DeJohnette, Carrington moved to New York, where she worked with Lester Bowie, Stan Getz, James Moody, David Sanborn, Pharoah Sanders, and Cassandra Wilson. In the late 1980s Carrington moved 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 1990s as the drummer on the late night TV show VIBE hosted by Sinbad. In 1996 she collaborated with Peabo Bryson on “Always Reach for Your Dreams”, a song commissioned for the 1996 Olympic Games.
The mother of the child was a pianist , and her father was chairman of the Boston Jazz Society and was an Saxophonist.
