Terri Lyne Carrington's "Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue" EPK

Terri Lyne Carrington's "Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue" EPK with tags terri lyne carrington, money jungle, duke ellington, max roach, charles mingus, concord jazz, harlem, grammy

Terri Lyne Carrington's "Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue" is Nominated for the GRAMMY® Award for "Best Jazz Instrumental Album."

The album was released on Concord Jazz on February 5, 2013, and on Universal Music Japan / Somethin' Else on July 24, 2013.

Ms. Carrington's album marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the historic Duke Ellington-Charles Mingus-Max Roach recording.

Today, Ellington's 1963 "Money Jungle" album is considered one of the pivotal jazz recordings of the 1960s, and also - among other things -- served as a commentary on the perennial tug-of-war between art and commerce. In some ways, the 1963 album's 11 tracks were intended as a sort of counterbalance to the capitalist bent of the Mad Men generation. Now, 50 years later, this precarious balance in the world of jazz - or in any art form, for that matter - hasn't changed much. Terri Lyne Carrington paid tribute to Duke, his trio and his creative vision with a cover of that historic recording.

In speaking about Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue Carrington reflects, "Duke's original recording is something that has haunted me since I first heard it about a decade ago. I had bought it on CD, from the discount bin in a music store," she recalls. "I put it on in my car, and I immediately just felt something mysterious about it. There was just an energy that moved through the tracks. Duke and Charles and Max had a chemistry about them. There was this tension that you could hear, and yet they fit together like a hand in a glove."