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As a woman in jazz, Terri Lyne Carrington has spent her long, storied career notching milestones and breaking boundaries. Now, the much-decorated drummer says she’s out to challenge an entire system. Carrington, the Boston-born sensation and long-distance artistic director for Detroit’s Carr Center, will feature prominently at Sundays Grammy Awards. She and her group Social Science will perform as part of the Premiere Ceremony, the pre-broadcast show where the bulk of winners are announce...

BELOVED, John Steinbecks heartbreaking THE GRAPES OF WRATH, and George Orwells frighteningly relevant 1984. Pre-lockdown, I wrestled with Argentine writer Rodrigo Fresáns THE DREAMED PART (Open Letter Press, translated by Will Vanderhyden), the second in a trilogy. Like its predecessor, The Invented Part, this massive, challenging, nonlinear tome about an unnamed writer takes you on a freewheeling, literary joyride. Probably not surprisingly, much of my years reading concerned music. An ut...