STEVE TURRE Delicious and Delightful

Zeer weinige kunnen het met de vakbekwaamheid van de Trombonist opnemen en de gelijksoortige Down Beat Poll prijs in beslag nemen. Steve Turre, die bij Ray Charles, B.B. King, Woody Shaw, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie en McCoy Tyner gespeeld heeft, komt van Mainstream & Latin Jazz, die steeds met een groot portie cubanische invloeden gekruid werd. Ira Gitler, de bekende Jazz Journalist ziet de Artiest als „Elite Trombonespeler“ en de nieuwe CD met deze Line up kan niet treffender uitgedrukt worden,waar het over gaat. Smakelijke kost!
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Few can match Steve Turre’s skill as a trombonist. His technical mastery, which has seen him win five Down Beat polls, goes hand-in-hand with a deep respect for the music that has gone before him. Since his formative experience as a teenager playing alongside the great saxophonist/flautist Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Turre has gone on to play with many artists including Ray Charles, B.B. King, Woody Shaw, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie and McCoy Tyner. His versatility has also seen him collaborate with Latin jazz greats and he can also be found playing in Cuban maestro Arturo O’Farrill’s orchestra. Turre is also an acclaimed shellist, or conch player, extracting warm lyricism from this unusual instrument from the seabed. On this, his fourth HighNote release, Steve is joined by tenor sax great Billy Harper and piano giant Larry Willis, with whom Steve had worked in the band of Woody Shaw. If ever an album lived up to its name, it is Steve Turre’s Delicious and Delightful.