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Steve Turre Quartet - LIVE STREAMING CONCERT at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club

Courtesy of InstantSeats | Posted on August 23, 2020

Where

Smoke Jazz & Supper Club
2751 Broadway
New York, NY
Map
212-864-6662

Steve Turre Quartet - LIVE STREAMING CONCERT  at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club

When

Sat, August 29, 2020
8:00 pm

Musicians

About

“The jazz world needs more Steve Turres. A powerful technician with a soulful tone and quick wit, Turre is perhaps the leading trombonist of this generation.” — Rolling Stone

One of the world’s preeminent jazz innovators on both the trombone and seashells, 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’s storied career includes work alongside music legends such as Ray Charles, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Woody Shaw. A versatile master and true jazz original, he’s equally at home on everything from swinging classic bop lines or conjuring Rahsaan over a deep groove. His youthful quartet features exciting pianist Isaiah J. Thompson, who WBGO says, “simply makes jazz people smile every time out;” Dezron Douglas, who The New Yorker calls, “a formidable bassist” for his work with artist like Louis Hayes, Ravi Coltrane, and Makaya McCraven; and his talented drumming son, Orion, who the Chicago Tribune reports, “espous(es) many of the same musical values that define his father's work: musicianship above technical display, sensitivity to color and line and, above all, acuity in responding to what everyone else on the bandstand was playing.”...

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