Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Review: Terry Lyne Carrington – hot jazz on a cold winter’s night

Back in Hong Kong after 30 years, drummer Carrington entertains with a mixed bag of music, letting her band shine with her subtle supportive playing

PUBLISHED : Monday, 27 February, 2017, 5:03pm
UPDATED : Monday, 27 February, 2017, 5:03pm

by Robin Lynam
Terri Lyne Carrington was pleased to be back in Hong Kong. She announced from the stage, as visiting performers often do, that she was particularly enjoying the food, and also that it was now a full 30 years since her last visit.

On that occasion – before her debut CD as a leader – she came with Wayne Shorter’s band, appearing in one of the Live Under the Sky touring jazz festivals of the late 1980s which featured such major names as Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, and Herbie Hancock.

As she ruefully observed you don’t get all-star touring bills like that anymore, although she didn’t mention that the reason for that is that tobacco company sponsorship for those tours is now off limits.

The Arts Festival’s budget presumably didn’t quite run to some of the stars who appeared on Carrington’s most recent Mosaic Project album, Love and Soul, but she still managed to assemble quite a band.

read more at: http://www.scmp.com/culture/music/article/2074377/review-terry-lyne-carrington-hot-jazz-cold-winters-night

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