Photograph of Terri Lyne Carrington examining cymbals: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black-and-white gelatin silver photograph of Terri Lyne Carrington examining a set of cymbals.

In a large bright room decorated with large tropical plants, large glass windows and long blinds, an adolescent Terri Lyne Carrington closely examines a set of brass cymbals. The cymbal sets are staged in the middle of the floor space atop an ornate floor design. Carrington is dressed in a bright beanie, shearling accented coat, and trousers. She leans to her proper right as her proper left hand touches the larger cymbal on the percussion set she is studying.

On the white reverse of the photograph is an inscription in turquoise felt tip pen near the top, is: [Terri Carrington / Ebony 4-77 not used]. A blue ink stamp identifying the photographer, G. Marshall Wilson, is marked in the middle.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1977
• Owned by: Terri Lyne Carrington, American, born 1965
• Created by: Avedis Zildjian Company, American, founded 1623
• Created by: The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, American, founded 1957
• Photograph by: G. Marshall Wilson
• Subject of: Richard Pablo Landdrum, American, born 1939
• Subject of: Clark Terry, American, born 1920
• Type: black-and-white prints
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: photographs
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (image): 6 × 9 in. (15.2 × 22.8 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.3 cm)
• Place captured: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Child musicians
• Topic: Children
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Musicians
• Object number: 2021.101.7
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Terri Lyne Carrington
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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