Jazz Articles about Steve Turre

Steve Turre: Still Searchin'

by Gary Firstenberg
August 21, 2006

Steve Turre is widely considered to be the finest jazz trombonist in the world. In addition to his twenty-plus years of service in the Saturday Night Live Band, he has performed with a virtual who's who of legendary jazz musicians, both as a leader and a sideman. His music is always diverse, challenging, and passionate. His thirteenth studio album, Keep Searchin', will be released by High Note in late-September, and he will be performing with a stellar band at Dizzy's ...

Steve Turre Honors Rahsaan Roland Kirk

by Franz A. Matzner
March 10, 2006

Steve Turre Kennedy Center Jazz Club Washington, DC

Whether it is discovering a previously unknown player or genre, or a new take on an old favorite, venturing out to live music leaves us open to discovering new sounds in one of the most satisfying ways possible: by chance. In the case of Steve Turre's recent stint at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club, that chance discovery was encountering a group of well-known players blending their voices in ...

Steve Turr: The Spirits Up Above

by Javier AQ Ortiz
June 5, 2005

Steve Turré first saw Roland Kirk performing almost forty years ago. The Spirits Up Above is a long-overdue homage to the Vibration Society's leader by one of its most distinguished alumni. Furthermore, this is a 24-bit engineered, mixed, and mastered recording by Rudy Van Gelder.

Turré, sans seashells, offers only one original composition on this record. “One For Kirk features a straightforward swing and bouncy mid-tempo arrangement with a sticky melody, finding pianist Mulgrew Miller, altoist Vincent Herring, ...

Steve Turre: The Spirits Up Above

by John Kelman
October 9, 2004

You have to have a lot of nerve to pay homage to Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Soul-drenched, steeped in the blues yet progressive in ways that were not to be fully appreciated until after his untimely death in '77, Kirk's music managed to be a bundle of contradictions while, at the same time, a cohesive statement about the true jazz experience. And while more space was often devoted to his eccentricities--playing multiple horns at once, dressing flamboyantly, as much a visual ...

Steve Turre's Sanctified Shells Band

by Roy Strassman
April 10, 2003

Steve Turre Yoshi's at Jack London Square Oakland, CA Neither rain nor sleet nor lines around the block will deter the true jazz junkie from his due deliverance, and so it was last night at Yoshi's. Expecting to see an empty house, I was surprised to enter a bulging room of soggy, but eager patrons. They had braved the elements to hear highly acclaimed Steve Turre's “Sanctified Shells," featuring Coltrane-veteran saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and ...

Steve Turre: One4J--Paying Homage to J.J. Johnson

by C. Michael Bailey
March 1, 2003

One4J is the second high profile multi-trombone release this season, after Spirit of the Horn (MCG Jazz, 2003) by Slide Hampton and The World of Trombones. That disc was an implicit hommage to the trombone master J.J. Johnson. This present disc is explicitly dedicated to the Imminent Mr. Johnson, who passed away February 4, 2001. Steve Turre digs deep into the Johnson songbook to pull out compositions by and songs associated with or inspired by Mr. Johnson.

For ...

Steve Turre: TNT

by C. Andrew Hovan
October 1, 2001

From his early days with the legendary Rahsaan Roland Kirk to a continuing 17-year stint with the Saturday Night Live band, Steve Turre could arguably be included among a camp of seasoned jazz men who’ve “been there and done that.” Along the way, the adaptable trombonist has also made viable music by utilizing a collection of various sized conch shells, surely the most unusual items to be found in the category of miscellaneous instruments.

Turre’s sophomore effort for Telarc is ...