(act, straightahead, mainstream, fusion) Terri Lyne Carrington - Jazz is a spirit - 2002, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Recorded at Master Control Studio, Burbank, CA
in February 2001
Engineers: Rich Breen, Dan Nebenzal, Matt Quave,
John Ugarte
Mixed by Charlie Pollack
Mastered by Stephan Marsh at Sony Music Studios,
Santa Monica, CA
Produced by Terri Lyne Carrington
The fact that Terri Lyne Carrington’s output as a leader has been quite spare makes her new album, Jazz Is a Spirit, all the more noteworthy. Her second and third efforts as a leader, Real Life Story and the little-known Voice & Music, were fairly commercial in nature. But this new album finds her at the helm of a fiery acoustic lineup, with bassist Bob Hurst and tenor saxophonist Gary Thomas as the most stable elements (much like her debut TLC and Friends with Buster Williams and George Coleman). Guitarist Paul Bollenback and pianist Greg Kurstin also appear frequently, but they’re relieved on two or three occasions by none other than Kevin Eubanks and Herbie Hancock.
Carrington kicks off with “Jazz Is,” a hip groove track with a forced and extraneous spoken-word bit by Cosby Show alum Malcolm-Jamal Warner. Lars Danielsson’s limping blues “Little Jump” comes as a relief. The originals have a searching, open quality, with pronounced traces of Miles and Wayne. Carrington in fact dedicates the straight-eighth ballad “Samsara” to tenor man Shorter and offers a brief, heavily disguised “Witch Hunt” later in the program. “The Corner,” moreover, begins with a melody reminiscent of “Oriental Folk Song,” then evolves into a smoldering groove in five. The hypnotic, Eastern-tinged “Journey of Now”, co-written by Carrington and Bob Hurst, follows two fragmentary cuts: first the unaccompanied drum solo “Journey Agent”, then 49 seconds of ethereal sextet music titled “Journey East from West”.
Solid originals like “Lost Star,” “Giggles,” and “Middle Way” give the album its backbone. (“Princess,” a contemplative piece co-written with Niels Lan Doky, wrongly includes Thomas among the personnel; the melody instrument sounds for all the world like Gregoire Maret on harmonica.) The penultimate track, “Mr. Jo Jones,” finds Papa Jo Jones speaking to a very young Carrington back in 1984. Then Malcolm-Jamal Warner returns, in a more restricted, sampled role, for the funk-driven title track. It’s perfectly catchy but a bit out of place, like the intro, but that hardly diminishes the impact of this forceful and well-paced record.

Commenting on her own lifelong commitment to jazz, Terri Lyne Carrington defers to Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, musicians who, she reminds us, have said that they "are not playing music, but are playing life." Indeed, her own music embodies profound lessons about our social and personal lives, about the histories that produce us and how we might free ourselves from these histories and simultaneously carry them forward. ‘Jazz Is A Spirit’ conveys Terri’s complex engagement with tradition, which involves a deep respect for those who came before her combined with innovative challenges that chart new territory. As the master drummer Papa Jo Jones speaks during the second of Terri’s two stunning drum solo compositions on this disc, he evokes his own contemporaries, musicians who have passed on, and issues a warning that future roads – the freedom roads Terri has chosen to take – will never be easy.
Terri Lyne Carrington developed and honed the skills that now identify her as one of the world’s great contemporary jazz drummers while playing during her youth with musicians like Clark Terry, Oscar Peterson, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Dianne Reeves and later performing with Pharoah Sanders, James Moody, Cassandra Wilson, Lester Bowie, and Stan Getz. For the last fifteen years, she has forged an impressive career working with her own bands, as a sideperson (with contemporary artist Al Jarreau and David Sandborn, as well as great jazzmen like Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock), as a composer, and producer. In the process she has staged exciting encounters between the traditional and the avant-garde, between the classical and the popular, between jazz, funk and rock.
‘Jazz Is A Spirit’ reiterates her refusal of strict categories ("Perpetual moments of pure creativity, jazz is abandonment within boundaries, the logical undoing of what you think it’s supposed to be.") In the tradition of drummers like Max Roach and Jack DeJohnette, Terri powerfully anchors the rhythm section and at the same time liberates the drum from it to lead the journey. After Herbie Hancock, Kevin Eubanks, Gary Thomas and Bob Hurst join her in a haunting tribute to Wayne Shorter, the drum emerges as the "journey agent" leading the way from East to West, from the past through the present and into the future.
By now Terri Lyne must be utterly weary of the trivial characterizations of her music that express an awe entirely related to her gender. Even when she was very young, and Dizzy Gillespie said "oooowee Man, she’s mean! She’s good, man! That little girl can play!" he was not necessarily suggesting that he would expect better playing from a boy. As the music on this disc makes entirely clear, she has significantly transformed the way we think about jazzwomen, and thus also, how we think about jazz. Jazz is a spirit and thanks to Terri Lyne Carrington, that spirit is extricating itself from its exclusively male history.
Recently, there has been much conversation about jazz and democracy. The leading participants in that conversation would do well to listen carefully to Terri Lyne Carrington. Her music says it all.
Angela Davis

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