JAZZ SPRING 2013 WOMEN ON THE HORIZON – TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON: THE MOSAIC PROJECT (USA) Bartók Béla National Concert Hall Featuring: Terri Lyne Carrington – drums, Lizz Wright – vocals, Ingrid Jensen – trumpet, Tia Fuller – alto saxophone, Helen Sung – piano, Tamir Shmerling – double bass One of the first truly outstanding female jazz drummers in the history of the genre, Terri Lyne Carrington has already performed at the Palace of Arts on several occasions as a guest. So what better time for her to appear here with her own production than at this year’s edition of the Jazz Spring festival at which musicians of the fairer sex take centre stage? Even more so given that she arrives here having won a Grammy Award for her album entitled The Mosaic Project, which features an all-female line-up of musicians playing a blend of music in which jazz, R’n’B and funk meld together in perfect symbiosis. Thought-provoking lyrics, musical complexity, a refined, overarching design, always enjoyable grooves and captivating melodies all come together on Mosaic. This evening will be no different, as Carrington is joined by a group of outstanding companions whose careers are presently on the rise to the status of firmly established stars. Lizz Wright is one of the most exciting singers on the R’n’B and blues-influenced jazz scene, with the ability to cast a spell over her audience within moments. The Canadian Ingrid Jensen holds her own on trumpet and flugelhorn with the best players of the bebop idiom, just as Tia Fuller does on saxophone when not playing in Beyoncé’s band, or as Helen Sung has proven on piano as an accompanist to Clark Terry and Wayne Shorter. Hearing their explosively energetic, prodigiously virtuoso playing in a blind test, one would scarcely suspect that the players are representatives of the supposedly weaker sex. The odd man out in tonight’s band is Israeli-born Tamir Shmerling.