Terri Lyne Carrington addresses women's omission from jazz canon with 'New Standards'
After finding an abysmally low number of women artists' work within jazz's unoffical book of standards, Carrington set out to fix the problem with a book of her own.
In 2018, Grammy-winning jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington founded The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, which launched with a question at the heart of its program "What would jazz sound like in a culture without patriarchy?" For its opening celebration, Carrington asked two students to play some live music.
Carrington's students looked to , a collection of sheet music which, for, goes a long way to addressing those damaging, and still-ongoing, ommissions.
