Video | Interview | Jazzfest Berlin 2024
Interview: Dr Kristin McGee with Terri Lyne Carrington and Kris Davis
For the Jazzfest Research Lab, Dr Kristin McGee spoke with Terri Lyne Carrington and Kris Davis about their perspectives on the jazz scene and how it developed, as well as the impetus for founding the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice.
Terri Lyne Carrington is a jazz drummer, composer, producer and educator, winner of the Doris Duke Artist Award and four-time Grammy Award winner. In recognition of her life's work to date, she received the 2021 NEA Jazz Master Fellowship. She is the founder and artistic director of the Berkeley Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice (the American education programme for studying jazz with guiding principles of gender justice and racial justice), Next Jazz Legacy program for women and non-binary emerging artists, and Berklee’s Summer Jazz Workshop.
Kris Davis is a jazz pianist, composer, Doris Duke Artist Award winner and Grammy Award winner. Her new project “Diatom Ribbons” has received acclaim in both the New York Times and the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. Davis is Associate Programme Director for Creative Development at the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice and founder of Pyroclastic Records.
Dr. Kristin McGee is an Associate Professor of Popular Music at the University of Groningen and a Senior Lecturer in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance at the School of Music at the Australian National University. Her research focuses upon popular music and jazz performance and media through the lens of critical intersectional frameworks.
Kris Davis will present the Berlin premiere of “Diatom Ribbons” at Jazzfest Berlin on Friday, 1 November 2024, featuring Terri Lyne Carrington. Before that, they will talk about their commitment to the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice at the Jazzfest Research Lab, which will take place on Friday and Saturday in the Kassenhalle of the Berliner Festspiele and in which Kristin McGee will also take part.