Carrington is the 'Black Girl Magic' - ARAB TIMES
Messenger Terri Lyne Carrington is just 11 years old and hanging backstage at a concert hall with her friend “Ella” – that’s Ella Fitzgerald to us mere mortals – and the jazz legend wants to introduce her to jazz virtuoso Oscar Peterson, who had just finished performing. “Ella Fitzgerald says, ‘You need to hear her,’” Carrington, now 55, recalls. “She was just somebody who would encourage me and hang out with me. She was shy, and I was disarming because I was a kid. She took a liking to me.” Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington plays a set of drums with Zildjian cymbals, in a ...