Jazz Articles about Brad Turner

Steve Maddock: The Blues Project

by Pierre Giroux
September 7, 2021

In the mid 1960's, there was a Greenwich Village, NYC pop band called The Blues Project which was primarily informed by folk, rhythm & blues, jazz and pop music of the day. One of their early success was entitled “Flute Thing," a tune from the group's 1966 album Projections (Verve / Folkways). Keyboardist / vocalist Al Kooper, a founding member of The Blues Project, wrote “Flute Thing." He went on, in 1967, to found the pop-rock band Blood, Sweat & ...

Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Night Devoid of Stars

by Jerome Wilson
July 11, 2020

Daniel Hersog is a Canadian trumpet player and composer, here presenting his first big band album, a set of sweeping and progressive orchestral jazz which reflects the current state of the world with shifting moods of unease and cautious optimism. Hersog has a expansive style of writing that draws as much from classical music as jazz. His compositions here are written to feature two main soloists, tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger and pianist Frank Carlberg, much as Gil Evans ...

Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Night Devoid of Stars

by Jack Bowers
June 17, 2020

Daniel Hersog is the latest arrival in a long-running parade of world-class jazz composer-arrangers from Canada, albeit not in the image of Rob McConnell, Phil Nimmons or Rick Wilkins but more akin to some of his mentors including (but not limited to) John Hollenbeck, Ken Schaphorst and Dave Holland. Night Devoid of Stars (named for a premise by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), Hersog's debut recording as leader of his Jazz Orchestra, consists of half a dozen of his original ...

David Lavoie Quartet: Juno

by John Bricker
April 26, 2020

The experimental and avant-garde side of jazz can be incredibly rewarding and a whole lot of fun, whether delivering the adventurous dynamics of a Sun Ra epic or a maelstrom of dissonance at the climax of an Angles 9 track. But, despite the value of risk-taking and innovation, straight-forward and focused jam albums will always have their place, as trumpeter David Lavoie and his band clearly know. Despite a few rough spots, Lavoie's debut with his quartet, Juno, is a ...

The October Trio + Brad Turner: Looks Like It’s Going to Snow

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 29, 2009

«Moods and Colours of a Vancouver Autumn». Sì, potrebbe essere questa frase, scritta tra le note di copertina da Greg Buium, a fotografare l'attitudine dell'October Trio. Potrebbe, appunto. Perché se da una parte il suono di Looks Like It's Going to Snow rispecchia i colori tenui di uno scenario nordico, limpido e malinconico, dall'altra mette in mostra una nutrita varietà di situazioni che fanno venir in mente tonalità più accese, vive. A cominciare dai brevi segmenti free-form in scaletta, al ...

Dylan van der Schyff: The Definition of a Toy

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 19, 2007

Con un sottile intreccio di connessioni, il batterista canadese Dylan van der Schyff ha unito nel quintetto del suo esordio discografico - la registrazione è del 2003 - differenti personalità e storie musicali. Sono con lui infatti il trombettista Brad Turner, con cui condivide dai primi anni Ottanta alcune delle più interessanti avventure jazzistiche della scena di Vancouver, due “olandesi d'adozione" come il clarinettista Michael Moore e il pianista Achim Kaufmann e il contrabbassista Mark Helias, attivo da quasi trent'anni ...

Brad Turner Trio: Question the Answer

by John Kelman
November 30, 2004

Canadian artist Brad Turner is a triple threat: a pianist, trumpeter and drummer, he has developed a significant reputation over the past eight years with artists including roots music specialists Zubot & Dawson, avant cellist Peggy Lee and the elastically-timed fusion group Metalwood. A two-time winner of the National Jazz Awards “Composer of the Year" as well as “Jazz Trumpeter of the Year," he has also won numerous Juno awards, the Canadian version of the Grammy.

For an artist to ...