MUSIC

Featuring 2012 Grammy-Award winning jazz drummer, composer, record producer and entrepreneur Terri Lyne Carrington; honoring Steve Schwartz, highly acclaimed jazz producer and radio personality, and Andy McGhee, master saxophonist and educator recognized as Boston's "golden man of jazz"; hosted by jazz icon and radio personality Eric Jackson.

Along with Terri Lyne Carrington on drums, the 35th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert Ensemble also includes: Tim Ingles (electric bass); John Lockwood (acoustic bass); Consuelo Candelaria-Barry and Emmett G. Price III (piano/keyboards); Ricardo Monzon (percussion); Bill Banfield (guitar); and Bill Pierce, Stan Strickland, Carl Atkins, and Leonard Brown (reeds and woodwinds).

John Coltrane inspired many, no matter the community or culture, to achieve musical, spiritual, and humanitarian heights never thought possible. The Boston-based Friends of the John Coltrane Memorial Concert, Inc. (FJCMC), originally established as John Coltrane Memorial Concert in 1977 and recently incorporated in 2012, presents an annual recognition of Coltrane’s spiritual and musical legacy. The world’s oldest annual performance tribute to Coltrane and now in its 35th year of existence, FJCMC is currently being sponsored by Northeastern University.