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In a career that spans two decades and encompasses a broad array of musical ventures, saxophonist Mark Turner has emerged as a towering presence in the jazz community. With a distinctive, personal tone, singular improvisational skills and an innovative, challenging compositional approach, he’s earned a far-reaching reputation as one of jazz’s most original and influential musical forces. A New York Times profile of Turner titled “The Best Jazz Player You’ve Never Heard” called him “possibly jazz’s premier player,” noting his reputation amongst his peers and his influential stature in the jazz world. 2013 finds Turner entering an exciting new creative phase, with his varied talents showcased on a variety of notable new recording projects
The Music of Anthony Braxton
By Steve Lehman
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: 34a; L.A. Genes; 40b; 23b + 23g; 23c; Unbroken and Unspoken; 23e + 40a; Trinkle, Tinkle.
The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn
By Jason Palmer
Label: Giant Step Arts
Released: 2024
Track listing: (First Set): B.A.M.D.; Same Bird; Do you Know Who YOU Are?; One for Fannie Lou; (Second Set): Beware of Captain
America; For the Freedom Fighters; The Cross Over; It Very Well May Be So; More in Common.
Spindrift
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Spindrift; Mosquito Flats; More Mesa; Chambery; See You Again My Friend; Murnau; Fair Warning; Anacapa; Ahwahnee; Out of the Fog.
Reflections on: The Autobiography on an Ex-Colored Man
By Mark Turner
Label: Giant Step Arts
Released: 2025
Track listing: Movement 1. Anonymous; Movement 2. Juxtaposition; Movement 3. Pulmonary Edema; Movement 4. New York; Movement 5. Europe; Movement 6. The Texan...The Soldier; Movement 7. Mother...Sister...Lover; Movement 8. Pragmatism; Movement 9. Identity Politics; Movement 10. Closure.
Multidirectional
By Billy Hart
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Song for Balkis;
Giant Steps;
Sonnet for Stevie;
Amethyst;
Showdown.
Just
By Billy Hart
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Showdown; Layla Joy; Aviation; Chamber Music; South Hampton; Just; Billy's Waltz;; Bo Brussels; Naaj; Top of the
Middle.
Troy Dostert's Best Jazz Albums of 2025
by Troy Dostert
We were treated to another superb year of creative jazz and improvised music in 2025, with a broad range of projects seeking to extend the boundaries of jazz into and beyond other idioms. Chamber-adjacent outfits such as the Hemphill Stringtet and Patricia Brennan's latest ensemble blurred the border between jazz and contemporary classical music, while Miguel ...
Confronting the Questions: Race, Anonymity, and the American Experience
by David Bixler
In the early 1900s, James Weldon Johnson explored the complex life of a bi-racial man who chose to disappear into white society in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Now, saxophonist Mark Turner uses this powerful novel as the foundation for his latest project. Join us as we listen to and discuss Turner's powerful compositions--a musical ...
Billy Hart Quartet Birthday Bash
by Chris DeRosa
Billy Hart Quartet Multidirectional Album Release & Hart's 85th Birthday Celebration Smoke Jazz & Supper Club November, 30, 2025 Hello, my name is Chris DeRosa, and this is what I heard... The show took place at the legendary New York City venue Smoke Jazz & Supper Club. ...
