We Insist 2025! Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell

• 1 Driva'man 08:18
• 2 Freedom Day (Part 1) 04:16
• 3 All Africa 07:21
• 4 Boom Chick 01:36
• 5 Triptych: Resolve/Resist/Reimagine 07:21
• 6 Tears For Johannesburg 07:51
• 7 Dear Abbey 02:51
• 8 Freedom Day (Part 2) 04:07
• 9 Freedom Is.... 05:00
• 10 Joyful Noise 04:45
• Total Runtime 53:26

Info for We Insist 2025!

Four-time GRAMMY-winning, NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington and GRAMMY-nominated vocalist Christie Dashiell present We Insist 2025!, a bold reimagining of the seminal 1961 album We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite.

Originally created by Max Roach in collaboration with Abbey Lincoln and lyricist Oscar Brown Jr. We Insist! commemorated the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation and served as a rallying cry during the civil rights movement. Recognized by the Library of Congress and cited among the most essential jazz recordings in history, its message remains as vital and urgent today as it was when it was released in 1961. Carrington and Dashiell’s reimagined version honors this legacy while expanding its sonic palette, blending jazz with influences from gospel, neo-soul, funk, Afro-Latin, West African, and blues traditions.

The album features an extraordinary lineup of musicians, many of whom are Candid recording artists, including Weedie Braimah, Milena Casado, Morgan Guerin, Simon Moullier, and Matthew Stevens. A special guest appearance is made by Julian Priester, the only living musician from the original recording. Together, they breathe new life into Roach’s timeless album, infusing it with the spirit of collective improvisation, meditation and joy as forms of resistance.

We Insist 2025! is more than an album—it’s a call to action, a commemoration of resilience, and a tribute to the enduring power of music to inspire change. With its fusion of tradition and innovation, the album not only honors the past but also points toward the future of jazz as a dynamic and comprehensive art form.

I set out to make an album that not only captures the spirit of resistance as did the original recording but also acknowledges joy as a form of protest. Maintaining joy can be an important part of being free, and the unapologetic expression of joy is a form of resistance to oppression.” (Terri Lyne Carrington)

Carrington channels the anger of Roach’s original into something more measured yet no less insistent, and at times even celebratory.” (WSJ)

“Terri Lyne Carrington, one of the country’s primary ambassadors of jazz, bridges the genre’s storied past and urgent present. With ‘We Insist 2025!,’ she not only honors Max Roach’s towering legacy but revives the soul of protest music—reminding us that, nearly 200 years later, the most powerful songs of resistance remain heartbreakingly relevant.” (LA Times)

"We Insist 2025!, the new album by Terri Lyne Carrington and Christie Dashiell, resonates from its core with echoes of déjà vu that are impossible to ignore.” (Downbeat)

Devon Gates, bass (2) (tracks: 5, 9, 10)
Morgan Guerin, bass (tracks: 1 to 3, 6, 8, 10)
Weedie Braimah, congas, djembe (tracks: 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10)
Terri Lyne Carrington, drums (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8 to 10), percussion (tracks: 3, 9), Turntables (track: 6)
Morgan Guerin, drums (tracks: 3), percussion (tracks: 3, 6, 9)
Matthew Stevens, guitar (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8 to 10)
Christie Dashiell, percussion (tracks: 3, 9)
Lizz Wright, tambourine (tracks: 3, 6, 8)
Julian Priester, trombone (track: 6)
Milena Casado, trumpet, electronics (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8 to 10)
Simon Moullier, vibraphone, marimba (tracks: 1 to 3,5, 8 to 10)
Christie Dashiell, vocals (tracks: 1 to 6, 8, 10)
Zacchae'us Paul, vocals (track: 10)

Terri Lyne Carrinton
Celebrating 40 years in music, NEA Jazz Master and three-time GRAMMY® award-winning drummer, producer, and educator, Terri Lyne Carrington started her professional career in Massachusetts at 10 years old when she became the youngest person to receive a union card in Boston. She was featured as a “kid wonder” in many publications and on local and national TV shows. After studying under a full scholarship at Berklee College of Music, Carrington worked as an in-demand musician in New York City, and later moved to Los Angeles, where she gained recognition on late night TV as the house drummer for both the Arsenio Hall Show and Quincy Jones’ VIBE TV show, hosted by Sinbad.

While still in her 20’s, Ms. Carrington toured extensively with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, among others and in 1989 released a GRAMMY®-nominated debut CD on Verve Forecast, Real Life Story. In 2011 she released the GRAMMY®Award-winning album, The Mosaic Project, featuring a cast of all-star women instrumentalists and vocalists, and in 2013 she released, Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue, which also earned a GRAMMY®Award, establishing her as the first woman ever to win in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album category.

To date Ms. Carrington has performed on over 100 recordings and has been a role model and advocate for young women and men internationally through her teaching and touring careers. She has toured or recorded with luminary artists such as Al Jarreau, Stan Getz, Woody Shaw, Clark Terry, Diana Krall, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, James Moody, Yellowjackets, Esperanza Spalding, and many more. Ms. Carrington’s 2015 release, The Mosaic Project: LOVE and SOUL, featured performances of iconic vocalists Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, and Nancy Wilson.

In 2003, Ms. Carrington received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music and was appointed professor at the college in 2005, where she currently serves as the Founder and Artistic Director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, which recruits, teaches, mentors, and advocates for musicians seeking to study jazz with racial justice and gender justice as a guiding principles. She also serves as Artistic Director for The Carr Center, Detroit, MI. and for Berklee’s Summer Jazz Workshop.

In 2019 Ms. Carrington was granted The Doris Duke Artist Award, a prestigious acknowledgment in recognition of her past and ongoing contributions to jazz music. Her current collaborative project, Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science (formed with Aaron Parks and Matthew Stevens), released their debut album, Waiting Game, in November, 2019 on Motema Music, inspired by the seismic changes in the ever-evolving social and political landscape. The double album expresses an unflinching, inclusive, and compassionate view of humanity’s breaks and bonds through an eclectic program melding jazz, R&B, indie rock, contemporary improvisation, and hip-hop.

Both Waiting Game and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice point to Carrington’s drive to combine her musical talents with her passion for social justice. The subjects addressed on Waiting Game run the gamut of social concerns: mass incarceration, police brutality, homophobia, Native American injustice, political imprisonment, and gender justice.

“In previous projects I’ve hinted at my concerns for the society and the community that I live in,” Carrington says. “But everything has been pointing in this direction. At some point you have to figure out your purpose in life. There are a lot of drummers deemed ‘great.’ For me, that’s not as important as the legacy you leave behind.”

Waiting Game was nominated for a 2021 GRAMMY® award and has been celebrated as one of the best jazz releases of 2019 by Rolling Stone, Downbeat, Boston Globe and Popmatters. Downbeat describes the album as, “a two-disc masterstroke on par with Kendrick Lamar's 2015 hip-hop classic, 'To Pimp a Butterfly'..." Ms. Carrington was named as JazzTimes Critics Polls’ Artist of the Year, Jazz Artist of the Year by Boston Globe, and Jazz Musician of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association.

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