Jazzfest Research Lab I: Terri Lyne Carrington and Kris Davis

For the Jazzfest Research Lab on 1 November 2024, Terri Lyne Carrington and Kris Davis spoke about 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.