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Jazz musician TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON explains to Chris Searle why themes of social justice in the Trump era inform her latest album
Profoundly contemporary: Terri Lyne Carrington

TOP US jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, who’s played and recorded with some of the most luminous figures of post-war jazz including Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, is about to release Waiting Game, a new album by her band Social Science.

It’s to be launched in Britain at two concerts during the London Jazz Festival at Kings Place on November 15 and 16.

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