The Mark Turner Quartet
Live at The Village Vanguard
New York, NY USA
2011-06-21
Part of the "Live at The Village Vanguard" series, hosted by
Josh Jackson. As broadcast by 88.3 WBGO-FM, Newark, NJ USA.
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Track List:
01 - Intro By Josh Jackson (2:28)
02 - Crepuscule With Nellie (Monk) (9:43)
03 - Dance Of The Infidels (Powell) (12:38)
04 - Conception Vessel (Motian) (12:18)
05 - Balkins (Hart) (13:12)
06 - Sonnet For Stevie (Turner) (15:09)
07 - Mumbo Jumbo (Motian) (14:11)
08 - Outro By Josh Jackson (:28)
Total Running Time: 80:09
Personnel:
Mark Turner - tenor saxophone
David Virelles - piano
Ben Street - bass
Paul Motian - drums
Live at the Village Vanguard broadcast info:
from WBGO-FM and NPR music
Josh Jackson - producer and host
David Tallacksen - mix engineer
Michael Downes - assistant
Michael McGoff - assistant
Lara Pellegrinelli - moderator
Patrick Jarenwattananon - web producer
Thurston Briscoe (WBGO) Ana Grunman (NPR Music) - executive producers
Lorraine Gordon - proprietor of The Village Vanguard
The Village Vanguard info:
http://villagevanguard.com/
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From the NPR info page:
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/22/137208196/
mark-turner-quartet-live-at-the-village-vanguard
June 21, 2011
The kids these days: They want to sound like Mark Turner. Well, at least
the saxophone students do, and sure, certainly not all of them. But he's
still probably the most influential tenor man of his generation. Why is that?
Perhaps you haven't heard of Turner, if you don't follow modern jazz closely.
He hasn't put out any records as a clear leader for about 10 years now;
he has no website. But he has an innovative sonic signature, a certain
floating chromaticism, rhythmic mindfulness and lightness of tone, filled
with subtleties. Basically, his music has personality, which keeps the
best musicians ringing his phone, and the aspiring ones listening hard.
Hear for yourself. Turner marshaled a band for a week at the Village
Vanguard in New York City, including the talismanic drummer Paul Motian.
WBGO and NPR Music presented a live webcast of the Mark Turner Quartet
live from the club on Tuesday, June 21.
Turner is known for having studied the pantheon of saxophone masters
in depth: The John Coltranes, Joe Hendersons, Dexter Gordons and Sonny
Rollinses. But unlike many of his peers, he's also assimilated much
information from Warne Marsh, the tenor saxophonist known best as an
associate of pianist Lennie Tristano. In other words, Turner has
absorbed some unusual stuff, which has helped give his playing its "who
else would think to do that?" qualities. With him this go-round were
pianist David Virelles, a young and increasingly sought-after musician
from Cuba via Canada, and bassist Ben Street, who's partnered with
Turner on many a gig over the years. As for Paul Motian, at 80, he's
still something like the Vanguard's unofficial drummer-in-residence,
and a loose, iconoclastic player at that.
Mark Turner grew up outside Los Angeles, and is among the many acclaimed
musicians who attended music school in Boston in the late '80s and early
'90s. He then moved to New York, where in a sunnier time for the jazz
recording industry, he was offered a record deal with a major label.
After four albums, the industry forecast was not so sunny, and he was dropped.
Turner has continued many of his musical associations, though: most notably,
his longstanding mind-meld with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, as well as Fly,
the collaborative trio he co-leads with bassist Larry Grenadier and
drummer Jeff Ballard.
Not surprisingly, Turner is a frequent performer at the Vanguard. He's
appeared on NPR Music and WBGO's Live at the Village Vanguard series at
least four times in the last three years. Those are only the appearances
we've recorded; when he takes the stage next Tuesday, it will have been
less than a week and a half since was last there, in the quartet of
drummer Billy Hart. This show, however, his name was atop the poster
by the red doors.
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