New Standards Jazz Crawl @ The Carr Center Performance Studio

13 CONCERTS. 5 DAYS. 8 VENUES. FREE.

Midtown Detroit welcomes The Carr Center Performance Studio to the Cultural Center with this unique 13-part music series, FREE to the public, featuring works by a wide range of women composers, from unique to popular, from historic to current, from blues to bebop, and beyond… performed by an outstanding line-up of jazz performers hailing from New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Detroit.

The participating midtown venues for this sensational series of free concerts are:

Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit Historical Museum

Detroit Public Library

Detroit Symphony Orchestra - The Cube

MOCAD

The Scarab Club

The Wright Museum

And … The NEW Carr Center Performance Studio.

**Jazz Crawl is a special music series linked to, New Standards: Part 1 of Shifting the Narrative: Jazz and Gender Justice, a world premiere multimedia installation, curated and conceived by NEA Jazzmaster, 3-time Grammy Award winner and Carr Center Artistic Director, Terri Lyne Carrington, running from October 14 - November 27 at The Carr Center Performance Studio, 15 E. Kirby Street in midtown. To learn more about the installation visit our website

REGISTER HERE for the 5 concerts @ The Carr Center Performance Studio, 15 E. Kirby Street, in Midtown Detroit

CONCERT DETAILS

October 14 9:00 p.m. The Carr Performance Studio: Jazzmeia Horn with The Gathering Orchestra Nonet

Jazzmeia Horn: Three time Grammy nominated singer, Jazzmeia Horn is an accomplished Jazz singer and songwriter. In 2015 She won the coveted Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition. Critically acclaimed, her vocal gifts have been compared to the stylings of such iconic women of Jazz, as Betty Carter, Nancy Wilson and Sarah Vaughan. She also won the prestigious NAACP Image Award for her soul-stirring Jazz Album, “Love & Liberation.”

The Gathering Orchestra Nonet: A two-year fellowship program, under the artistic direction of renowned bassist Rodney Whitaker, former member of the Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra and Carr Center Resident Artist. The Gathering is a professional development opportunity for talented, early career musicians. The Nonet is an ensemble of the Orchestra, created during the pandemic, so that the work could continue. Most recently they performed the world premiere of “The Resonate Suite,” written for The Nonet by keyboardist, composer, arranger and educator, Patrice Rushen.

October 15 9:00 p.m. The Carr Center Performance Studio: Carmen Lundy

Carmen Lundy: "Musicians as diversely gifted as Carmen Lundy, who has excelled as a vocalist, composer, lyricist, arranger, and pianist for more than 30 years, remain far and few between" - Jazz Times. Currently on Afrasia Productions label, Carmen was a 2021 Grammy® Nominated artist for her 15th album Modern Ancestors, for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Her 2017 release, Code Noir, debuted at #6 on the Billboard Jazz Chart to both critical acclaim. As a composer, Ms. Lundy’s catalog has over 150 published songs, one of the few jazz vocalists to ever accomplish such a distinction.

October 20 6:00 p.m. The Carr Center Performance Studio: Savannah Harris , Nicole Glover, Rashaan Carter and Jeremy Corren

Savannah Harris: A New York City-based drummer, composer, and producer Savannah was raised in Oakland, California by musician parents, she gravitated towards the drums at age two. Steeped in a jazz tradition, Savannah’s work reflects her versatility. She’s performed with Jason Moran, Ambrose Akinmusire, Kenny Barron, Terence Blanchard and Billy Childs. Currently, she’s been working extensively with Aaron Parks, Melanie Charles, Or Bareket, Peter Evans, and Joel Ross. In 2019, Savannah was awarded the Harlem Stage Emerging Artist Award, and she received her master’s in jazz performance from Manhattan School of Music.

Nicole Glover: Nicole Glover is a saxophonist, bandleader, composer, and educator currently based in New York City. Growing up in Oregon, she was introduced to the music through her father’s record collection, and studied in programs dedicated to priming students for touring and performing, such as the award winning American Music Program and Next Generation Jazz Orchestra.She established herself as a rising saxophonist performing with esteemed artists such as Christian McBride, Al Foster, Victor Lewis, George Cables, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Billy Hart, Esperanza Spalding,Kenny Washington and more and in 2020 she was invited to join Blue Note supergroup ARTEMIs

Rashann Carter: Rashaan Carter grew up in the Washington D.C. area. It was there, with the nurturing of his father, a saxophonist, and his mother, a jazz radio programmer, Rashaan forged an interest in music. After stints with various instruments, the bass became the voice for his musical expression. Since moving to New York Rashaan has become entrenched in the jazz scene and has worked with Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller and Louis Hayes, Wallace Roney, Cindy Blackman, Doug and Jean Carn and many others. He’s also studied with one of his prime influences, Ron Carter. Rashaan regularly performs with a myriad of artists in and outside of New York and can be found on various recordings as well.

Jeremy Corren: Pianist and composer Jeremy Corren was born and raised in Los Angeles. In 2013 he moved to New York to attend Columbia University, where he studied composition and orchestration with composers Zosha Di Castri, Georg Friedrich Haas, and George E. Lewis. Since then he has performed regularly at renowned venues throughout the city, such as the Blue Note, Smalls Jazz Club, and the Jazz Gallery, along with festival appearances at the Newport and Chicago Jazz Festivals. He has toured internationally, visiting the Blue Note establishments in Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing, the Netherlands for the North Sea Jazz Festival, Italy for the Umbria Jazz Festival, and more.

October 21 9:00 p.m. The Carr Center Performance Studio: Camille Thurman

Camille Thurman: Acclaimed by Downbeat Magazine as a "rising star" with “remarkable, Fitzgerald-esque scat prowess” and hailed by All About Jazz as a “first class saxophonist that blows the proverbial roof off the place”, Camille Thurman has been amazing audiences all over with her impeccable sound and captivating artistry. She is a two-time award winning recipient of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award and the first woman in 30 years perform full time with the world renown Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra.

October 28 9:00 p.m. The Carr Center Performance Studio: Darynn Dean, featuring Paul Cornish

Darryn Dean: A recent graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, with a BA in Jazz Vocal Performance, 22-year-old Darynn Dean is ready to take the world by storm. No stranger to Jazz, her grandfather, Donald Dean Sr. is a renowned drummer (Les McCann, Carmen McCrae and Eddie Harris), her father, Donald Dean Jr. is also a drummer (Kenny Burrell, Rickey Lee Jones). A true rising star from Los Angeles, Darynn says, “I’m so excited to move forward to my next chapter, and I can’t wait to share the stage with the Jazz greats of my generation.

Paul Cornish: Los Angeles based pianist Paul Cornish is currently the pianist for the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance. He regularly performs at premier venues around Los Angeles and has been heard on stages around the world from Europe, Australia, and South America to Carnegie Hall. He is also an accomplished composer and educator, was a finalist in the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Competition and is on the faculty at the Stanford Jazz Workshop. He has worked with artists Herbie Hancock, Gary Bartz, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kanye West, John Legend and more.

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