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Watch a concert by the Next Jazz Legacy band, led by Terri Lyne Carrington, at Yamaha Studio NYC

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Watch this space for a WBGO Livestream Event on Wednesday, July 20 at 7 p.m. EDT.

NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington is also the director of Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, which continues to uplift and encourage the next generation of musicians. To that end, Terri Lyne is the Artist Director of an apprenticeship/mentorship program, Next Jazz Legacy, for women and nonbinary artists. From 87 applicants, seven were chosen.

They are: Lexi Hammer and Kalia Vandever on trombones, Loke Risberg and Keyanna Hutchinson on guitars, Alexis Lombre and Anastassiya Petrova on piano, and Ivanna Cuesta on drums. For our concert at Yamaha Studio NYU, they were joined by bassist Tyrone Allen.

And for the last two songs, Terri Lyne joined the group as they played her arrangement of "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" as well as an original, "Samsara," which she wrote for Wayne Shorter. It was an awesome evening of music; jazz is in good hands.

Next Jazz Legacy is a partnership between New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, with support from the Mellon Foundation. For more information about the initiative, visit the official website.

In 1995 Sheila E. Anderson joined the staff of WBGO in Newark, New Jersey where she hosts Weekend Jazz Overnight and Salon Sessions. She has authored four books: The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac (2003), How to Grow as A Musician: What All Musicians Must Know to Succeed (2005) (both published by Allworth Press), The Little Red Book of Musicians Wisdom (Skyhorse Press, 2012) and the 2nd edition of How to Grow as A Musician was published in 2019,

In addition to curating jazz at the Newark Museum of Art, Ms. Anderson is a 2017 Columbia University Community Scholar, an inaugural Dan
Morgenstern Fellow by the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark
(2020), is a graduate of Baruch College and resides in Harlem, NYC.