TLC AND FRIENDS

Description

A first snapshot of an extraordinary musician at a young age, TLC & Friends was recorded in October 1981 when Terri Lyne Carrington was just 16 years old. Now a four-time Grammy winner, NEA Jazz Master, composer, activist, and educator, this album, widely released for the first time, gives us a glimpse of the incredibly talented and influential interdisciplinary artist during her first recording session and as a bandleader, no less. At the age of 5, she sat in with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the very first musician to let her take the stage. By the age of 10, she was performing at the prestigious Wichita Jazz Festival in Kansas with Clark Terry and his All-Stars, which included Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Al Cohen, Garnet Brown, George Ouvivier, Jimmy Rowles, and Louis Bellson. It was also there that she first met Buddy Rich, who later featured her on his national television show. By the time of this recording, she had received a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston after the school's founders, Lawrence and Alma Berk, heard her sit in with the great Oscar Peterson, who had introduced her at the suggestion of Ella Fitzgerald.