Tag: Mark Turner

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

The tenor saxophonist Mark Turner is now in the fourth decade of his career, an airy and still somehow tenuous fixture on the jazz scene from the release of Yam Yam in 1995, his debut as a leader whose quintet spotlighted a group of fellow up-and-comers including the pianist Brad Mehldau, the guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, the bassist Larry Grenadier...

Benjamin Lackner plays the piano with a plangent grace at the head of a new ensemble on his latest album Spindrift for ECM Records. Only the trumpeter Mathias Eick remains from his debut ECM offering Last Decade, while the pianist also reconnects with Matthieu Chazarenc on drums who was a member of his earlier trio. Eick with the tenor...