STEVE TURRE SEXTET
Updated: Aug 21, 2024
One of the world’s preeminent jazz innovators, trombonist and seashellist Steve Turre, has consistently won both the Readers’ and Critics’ polls in JazzTimes, DownBeat, and Jazziz for Best Trombone and for Best Miscellaneous Instrumentalist (shells). Turre was born to Mexican-American parents and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area where he absorbed daily doses of mariachi, blues and jazz. While attending Sacramento State University, he joined the Escovedo Brothers salsa band, which began his career-long involvement with that genre. In 1972, he went on tour with Ray Charles. A year later Turre’s mentor Woody Shaw brought him into Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. After his tenure with Blakey, Turre went on to work with a diverse list of musicians from the jazz, Latin, and pop worlds, including Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, J.J. Johnson, Herbie Hancock, Lester Bowie, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Van Morrison, Pharoah Sanders, Horace Silver, Max Roach, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
In addition to performing as a member of the Saturday Night Live Band since 1984, Turre leads several different ensembles. He will perform at the Montclair Jazz Festival with his sextet. Steve Turre continually evolves as a musician and arranger. He has a strong command of all musical genres and when it comes to his distinct brand of jazz, he always keeps one foot in the past and one in the future.
JAZZ HOUSE KiDS' presentation of the Steve Turre Sextet is supported through a Chamber Music America Presenter Consortium for Jazz grant in collaboration with Isham Park Restoration Program, (IPRP) 1970 Inc and Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts. A component of the Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project, Presenter Consortium for Jazz is funded by the Doris Duke Foundation.
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A lovely programme note. The shells are what make Turre unmistakable, and tracing the line from mariachi and blues in the Bay Area through the Escovedo Brothers into Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers explains a great deal about how he phrases. Tone that personal is worth studying closely. I have been picking apart delivery the same way with Choicer Voicer Packs, recording lines against an original clip and hearing what I miss.
Steve Turre - Musician
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Photograph of Steve Turre Trombonist + Woody Shaw Trumpeter + Mulgrew Miller Pianist + Johnnie Williams Saxophonist former member of the George Washington Carver Gay Blades Drum and Bugle Corp of Newark NJ - Pic - MJF01 By: @poppapolis
Steve Turre shown left.