BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell: We Insist 2025 X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261011T060827Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51321140960048 DTSTART:20260228T003000Z DTEND:20260228T013000Z DESCRIPTION:Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell: We Insist 2025!\n\nJ ust named jazz album of the year by the NAACP Image Awards!\n\nFeaturing W arren Wolf\, Milena Casado\, Morgan Guerin\, and Matthew Stevens\n\n$45 ge neral public\, free for Goucher students\, faculty\, and staff.\n\nWE INSI ST 2025! has just been nominated for a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album 20 26!\n\nWe Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite\, the groundbreaking 196 0 collaboration between legendary jazz drummer Max Roach and lyricist Osca r Brown Jr.\, stands as a defining artistic statement of the Black America n civil rights movement.\n\nWith a career defining performance by the inco mparable Abbey Lincoln\, and dynamic contributions from jazz greats Colema n Hawkins and Booker Little\, We Insist! stands as one of the most powerfu l and enduring statements of music as protest—within jazz and beyond. Re cognized by the Library of Congress and cited among the most essential jaz z recordings in history\, its impact remains as vital and urgent today as it was when it was released in 1960.\n\nWe Insist 2025! is an extraordinar y reimagining of Roach’s classic LP. It comes to us from NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington\, one of the finest jazz drummers and producers of her generation\, and vocalist Christie Dashiell\, whose brilliant work is at the nexus of all the various branches of great Black music. In a way th at both honors Roach’s original masterpiece and furthers Carrington’s passion for using jazz in the fight for social justice\, We Insist 2025! f eels like a perfect work of protest for our current moment.\n\nFittingly\, this homage is\, like Roach’s original\, a Candid Records release\, and bursts with fiery\, stirring ideas and performances\, as well as unstoppa ble grooves and the spellbinding interplay that only remarkable jazz music ians can deliver. With Roach and Brown’s compositions alongside original music and words by Carrington and her collaborators\, We Insist 2025! run s the emotional gamut\, from anger to tenderness to love and spots of deli ghtful humor—a crucial reminder that\, no matter what governments and in stitutions attempt\, they cannot prevent us from celebrating our lives.\n\ nThe program\, full of arrangements crafted with a “community spirit\, ” says Carrington\, is at once wide-ranging and deftly consistent in its aesthetic. “Driva’man” is propelled by nimbly swinging Afrofunk\, w hile “Freedom Day (Part 1)” is reflective neo-soul. Two rhythm-first e xercises in drums and spoken word\, “Boom Chick” and “Dear Abbey\, ” give respect to the originators.\n\nOn “Freedom Is…\,” Carringto n’s free verse surveys the victories\, both trivial and crucial\, that o ccur in modern life during those rare moments when prejudice or patriarchy or oppression isn’t looming. The results are\, at times\, laugh-out-lou d funny. “I set out to make an album that not only somehow captures the spirit of resistance\, but that also acknowledges joy as a form of protest \,” Carrington explains. “Maintaining joy can be an important part of being free\, and the unapologetic expression of joy is a form of resistanc e to oppression.”\n\nCarrington also works here to fulfill Roach’s pan -African vision\, one that encompasses and connects all the rich strains o f music that descend from the Mother Continent. “In making this album\, it really felt like\, yes\, we’re dealing with the things that were happ ening in the states in 1960\, many of which are still happening\,” Carri ngton explains. “But we’re also dealing with elevating a global musica l diaspora\, which is something Max worked toward—with influences not on ly from jazz and improvised music\, but from gospel and spirituals to soul and Afro-Cuban music.”\n\nDashiell\, whose 2023 album Journey in Black earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Vocal Jazz Album at the 67th Gramm y Awards\, is equally passionate about the project. She sees it as both a reflection of history and a call to action. “This piece is as timely as ever\, and I'm grateful Terri Lyne had the foresight to re-imagine it duri ng a time like this\,” she says. Adding\, “Abbey Lincoln’s fearlessn ess and authenticity has inspired me for many years. Admittedly\, I was ne rvous to take on the task of singing this music\, but through recording th ese iconic melodies and lyrics\, I tapped into a fearlessness and freedom of my own.”\n\nCarrington connected with Dashiell after searching “for someone who could sing this message authentically\, with a jazz pedigree\ , but with the ability to transcend genre.” Joining them in this mission is “a distinctive and varied cast of characters\, with racial diversity and gender diversity among the artists\,” Carrington adds. Her fantasti c working band comprises percussionist Weedie Braimah\, trumpeter Milena C asado\, multi-instrumentalist Morgan Guerin\, vibraphonist Simon Moullier\ , and guitarist Matthew Stevens. \n\nIn so many ways\, it seems as if We I nsist 2025! is the recording that Terri Lyne Carrington has been working t oward throughout her entire historic career. Famously\, Carrington hit the jazz scene as a child\, earning buzz as a drum prodigy. Whenever Roach to ured through her home town of Boston\, he’d have Carrington sit in. Once \, when he included her in a multiartist showcase of drum greats\, he insi sted that Carrington take the last and most momentous slot in the drum-off . Later\, he tried to get Carrington signed as a teenager to Blue Note Rec ords\, expressing interest in producing her. “I felt like he was proud o f me\,” she says. “I think he saw my potential. And that kind of suppo rt really gives you wind beneath your wings.”\n\nYou could argue that Ca rrington followed Roach’s example in the years to come. Not only has she been an invaluable mentor to generations of jazz phenoms\, but she has al so\, as Roach did\, focused on jazz’s ability to educate and uplift. To name a few examples among many\, her group Social Science has used jazz an d contemporary music to explore issues of race\, gender\, and sexual ident ity. Prior to that\, her Grammy-winning Mosaic Project celebrated womanhoo d through improvised music. She is also the founder of the Institute of Ja zz and Gender Justice at Berklee College of Music.\n\nWhat’s more\, We I nsist 2025! isn’t the first time Carrington has honored jazz history and culture by engaging directly with a canonical record. In 2014\, she becam e the first woman to receive the Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album\, for the album Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue\, a revisiting of the mon umental meetup between Roach\, Duke Ellington\, and Charles Mingus. Her re cent New Standards project\, also a Grammy winner\, asks why the jazz repe rtoire is dominated by male composers\, and expands the Real Book to under score the music of female composers.\n\nDespite her success\, Carrington s ays she’s “looking for a day when I can retire\, in a sense\, from thi s kind of work”—when incisive explorations of racism and patriarchy wi ll no longer be necessary. But for now\, of course\, that simply isn’t t he case\, and the meld of civil-rights mettle and African-rooted grooves t hat define We Insist 2025! is very much needed. “I feel that the music a nd themes on the album are poignant and that Max\, Abbey\, and Oscar are s miling\,” Carrington concludes. GEO:39.408818;-76.59579 LOCATION:Kraushaar Auditorium SUMMARY:ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell: We In sist 2025 URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.goucher.edu/event/terri-lynne-carrington-and-c hristie-dashiell-we-insist-2025 CATEGORIES:Music/Concert CATEGORIES:Public CATEGORIES:Alumnae/i Event END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR