Terri Lyne Carrington - Jazz is a Spirit (2002)

Tracklist:
01. Jazz Is (2:28)
02. Little Jump (7:42)
03. The Corner (7:03)
04. Lost Star (4:12)
05. Samsara (for Wayne) (7:25)
06. Journey Agent (1:31)
07. Journey East From West (0:50)
08. Journey Of Now (4:15)
09. Giggles (6:14)
10. Middle Way (6:55)
11. Princess (5:31)
12. Witch Hunt (3:10)
13. Mr. Jo Jones (2:25)
14. Jazz Is A Spirit (3:47)

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 warni...