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The Joe Martin Quartet - Live at The Jazz Standard in NYC - October 7 + 8 with Mark Turner, Brad Mehldau + Marcus Gilmore "Joe is one of the heavy bass players" --Kurt Rosenwinkel "...a versatile bassist and a thoughtful composer" --The New York Times "...a rock solid player" --The San Jose Mercury News If you are a jazz artist on the current New ...

Mark Turner joins Brad Mehldau's rhythm section to kick off Saxophone Week. Prague has several good, centrally located jazz clubs, but their schedules are generally indistinguishable.

Donny McCaslin is a roof-raising tenor saxophonist. He uses the same effects that such tenor players have employed since the Swing Era: the rude honks at the bottom of his horn, the menacing middle register growls and the ecstatic squeals at the peak.

Fresh Sound New Talent Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug, a rising player in the vein of such contemporaries as Kurt Rosenwinkel and Torben Waldorff , articulates his own vocabulary-one that contains folk, rock, and modern jazz sensibilities.

Layers, blends and individuality can make for a diverse music set. Bassist Nicolas Thys brings that with all-original songs on Virgo .

Last fall, Mark Turner, the most influential jazz tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane, nearly sliced off two of his fingers while cutting firewood at his home in Flatbush.

It was around midnight and the music was still intense, the sax notes rising like steam and heading off in unexpected directions.

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the ECM Records ' FLY - Sky & Country ' giveaway contest starting today.

It appeared an inauspicious venue for a jazz concert-a mile from Interstate Five in La Jolla, California, not in the village's quaint and stylish old sea-side downtown, but rather snugged in a tract of blocky and nondescript industrial type buildings housing a variety of bio-tech/research firms.

FLY is all jazz. They are jazzy with jazz on top. Knock knock. Who's there? Jazz.

SOURCE: Seattle Jazz Scene In hindsight, Mark Turner agrees that power saws and horn players should probably avoid close proximity.

Jason Crane interviews the members of the trio Fly Bassist Larry Grenadier, drummer Jeff Ballard and saxophonist Mark Turner.