Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington (b. 1965) has performed at the festival six times, including three times with her own band. She has worked with such giants as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Stan Getz. And for forty years Carrington has been “helping trumpet the joy of jazz to new generations and new audiences,” according to CNN. She has also emerged as an advocate for women's and transgender rights in music and is the founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. Last year Carrington released her latest album New Standards
Vol. 1. It stemmed from the book New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets By Women Composers which she curated. The book contains compositions by different generations of women musicians. At the festival, Carrington is performing with her own band as well as with other women. In addition, other women artists who contributed compositions to the book, such as Maria Schneider and esperanza spalding, are programmed alongside Carrington.
