This event brings together two generations of jazz instigators, Terri Lyne Carrington and Alexis Lombre, for a conversation on the history and future of gender equity in the making and playing of jazz music, moderated by the ethnomusicologist Dr. Traci Lombré. 

This conversation follows Terri Lyne and Alexis’ trio performance with Endea Owens at DROM on April 11, and flows out of an ongoing public and private dialogue on doing and understanding the work of inclusivity; carrying the weight; and exploring the future of intersectionality in Black jazz space.

​Over a remarkable forty-year career, the drummer, bandleader, composer, producer, activist and educator Terri Lyne Carrington has worked tirelessly on holistic transformations of jazz learning, performance, and history into spaces of welcome and recognition for female, nonbinary and trans people. A four-time Grammy winner, NEA jazz master, and undisputed stateswoman of American jazz, Terri Lyne is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, which recruits, teaches, mentors, and advocates for musicians seeking to study jazz with racial and gender justice as guiding principles. In 2022, she released the seminal book and accompanying album, New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets By Women Composers. 

Dr. Traci Lombré is a cultural historian and ethnomusicologist specializing in the culture, performance, and pedagogy of Kansas City and Chicago’s Black community-based jazz traditions. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Smith College, a master’s degree from the University of Chicago, and recently completed her Ph.D. in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Dr. Lombré is a member of Michigan’s Singing Justice Collective, which embraces divergent experiences of race, ethnicity, class background, academic rank, gender, and religion to investigate themes in Black American music. With this Collective, she is co-author of a book under contract with the University of Michigan Press, Black Song: A Manifesto for Music and Justice.

This event is part of FourOneOne's multifaceted residency featuring the pianist, vocalist, composer, and producer Alexis Lombre alongside her inspirations, mentors, and peers. Spanning concerts, listening parties, and conversations, the residency will foreground both her singular talent and their collective histories.