Grammy Award-winning drummer, producer, collaborator, and educator Terri Lyne Carrington is a drummer’s drummer whose laudable technique, creative choices, and tasteful flow speak to wide listening, and intense focus. Carrington is also the director of Berklee’s Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, working towards a vision of “jazz without patriarchy.” (NY Times)

She’s played with countless jazz luminaries over her career, and has gathered many more for her new band, Social Science; pianist Aaron Parks and guitarist Matthew Stevens, Morgan Guerin (bass & sax), Debo Ray (vocals) and Kassa Overall (MC/DJ.) Together, they confront a wide spectrum of social justice issues in original tunes on their double album, Waiting Game. Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science play some of these new tunes in-studio. - Caryn Havlik

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