Veteran Jazz Trombonist & Sea Shellist Steve Turre
Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Legendary Jazz Trombonist & Sea Shellist Steve Turre .. He talked with us about his newest 2018 CD – The Very Thought of You – And he elaborates on harmony .. Steve was born to Mexican-American parents and grew up in the San Francisco Bay and in 1972 he got the break of a lifetime when Ray Charles hired him to go on tour. A year later Turre’s mentor Woody Shaw brought him into Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers – from there he would go on to work with the legends .. like Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, J.J. Johnson, Herbie Hancock…
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