Mark Turner: Transcriptions & Essays
Available May 26, 2018 It's no secret that I'm a devoted admirer of Mark Turner's saxophone playing and musical-spiritual vision , so I was pleased when saxophonist and fellow Turner-ite Jeff McGregor reached out to me last June about writing a foreword for a collection of Turner solo transcriptions. Jeff's collection, Mark Turner: Transcriptions & Essays , is a massive undertaking: 35 solo transcriptions that span major bands (Kurt Rosenwinkel, Fly, Billy Hart Quartet) and two decades of Mark's playing. When I saw an early version of the transcriptions in November, there was already over +120 pages of notated music, which has likely only expanded since then.