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Steve Turre: Portland Debut! at Jimmy Mak's
Courtesy of SoulPatch Music Productions | Posted on July 17, 2015
Where
Jimmy Mak's
221 N. W. 10th
Portland, OR
Map
503-295-6542
When
Mon, August 10, 2015
8:00 pm
Save the date
Musicians
Steve Turre
tromboneGeorge Colligan
multi-instrumentalistChuck Israels
bass, acousticCharlie Doggett
drumsAbout
the Portland debut of one of the world’s preeminent jazz innovators, trombonist and pioneering seashell virtuoso Steve Turre.
Most people in the US, even ones not familiar with jazz, have heard and seen Steve Turre on TV—the renowned musician has been a member of the Saturday Night Live Band since 1985. However, jazz fans around the world know him as one of the music’s all-time greatest trombonists and innovators who almost single-handedly helped turn seashells from a novelty into a legitimate musical instrument in jazz.
Raised in the Bay area, Steve Turre got his first big break in 1972 getting hired by Ray Charles. The legendary musician later appeared on Mr. Turre’s album “In the Spur of the Moment”. A year later trumpeter Woody Shaw brought him into Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Since then Mr. Turre’s resume reads as a who’s who of jazz and pop music—from Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Bobby McFerrin, Cassandra Wilson, Herbie Hancock, Cedar Walton, Regina Carter, James Moody, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Quincy Jones, Max Roach, Horace Silver, J.J. Johnson, to Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Chucho Valdes, Poncho Sanchez, to Carlos Santana, Van Morrison, Mariah Carey, Lou Rowles, Paul Simon, and countless others....