Alexis Lombre with
Endea Owens and Terri Lyne Carrington
This event realizes Alexis Lombre’s vision of uniting bassist Endea Owens and percussionist Terri Lyne Carrington on stage for the first time, combining Endea’s “ripping-apart-the-stage” force, in Alexis’ words, with the NEA jazz master’s divine, unbounded drumming.
It’s surprising that Endea, Alexis and Terri have not shared a stage at this point in their careers—as Alexis rightly puts it, “Anyone who has heard of us individually would be excited for us to play.” Terri, a bandleader-percussionist whose musical activities always factor in their wider social significance, and Endea, whose recent projects include a compositional homage to the life of Ida B. Wells, are together a recipe for the kind of ecstatic, focused playing that channels, as Nate Chinen has put it, “fury forging art.”
For this performance, they’ll play some of Alexis’ music and arrangements, as well as Terri’s and Endea’s, reimagined specifically for this trio.
An Emmy, Grammy and Peabody-award winning musician, Detroit-raised composer and bassist Endea Owens is a graduate of Julliard, and a member of Stay Human, the house band for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Broadly acknowledged as one of the most vibrant young artists of her generation, she formed her group, Endea Owens and the Cookout, to make a “lane” for herself musically where she felt an absence of non-tokenizing opportunities in jazz for Black women. Her non-profit organization, The Cookout, started in 2020, has helped feed close to 3,000 New Yorkers and has hosted over a dozen free concerts.
Over a remarkable forty-year career, the drummer, bandleader, composer, producer, activist and educator Terri Lyne Carrington has worked tirelessly on holistic transformations of jazz learning, performance, and history into spaces of welcome and recognition for female, nonbinary and trans people. Nationally visible since before her teens, the Grammy winner and undisputed stateswoman of American jazz is also 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 and gender justice as guiding principles. After graduating from the Berklee College of Music, Terri 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. She toured extensively with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, has performed on over 100 recordings, and been awarded with four Grammys, among them for her albums The Mosaic Project (2011) and Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue (2013). In 2022, she released the seminal book and accompanying album, New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets By Women Composers.
Alexis Lombre in Residence, April 3–18, 2025
Still in her twenties, the pianist, vocalist, composer, and producer Alexis Lombre established herself as a force out of Chicago’s legendary musical universe while barely out of her teens. Living, learning and working in the vibrant musical cultures of Chicago, Detroit, New York, and now Los Angeles, Alexis’ cosmopolitan musical vision is formed in dialogue with textures of contemporary urban Black experience in these cities. Dissolving “boundaries” between Black music’s so-called “genres”—including R&B, avant-garde, gospel, soul, hip-hop and jazz—is part of the living tradition she carries. As she puts it, “Separation is an illusion. Especially within the genres of Black music.” From April 3–18, 2025, FourOneOne is proud to collaborate with Alexis Lombre on a multifaceted residency, featuring Alexis alongside her inspirations, mentors, and peers. Learn more.