![]() ![]() The songs on that album convey colors and emotions as if the notes were on a musical canvas or landscape. The music is beautiful, creative and original. What I love about “Yam Yam” goes hand in hand with what I love about Mark Turner’s saxophone playing. I listened to it over and over, and now, even 20+ years later, I still name that recording as one of my choices for my top 10 favorite tenor saxophone recordings. The music on that CD was unlike any I had ever heard before. I remember getting his first CD “Yam Yam” and being really intrigued and perplexed by it. ![]() Mark Turner is an incredible tenor saxophone player that I have always found to be original and on a path all his own. I actually went to Berklee School of Music with Mark Turner in the late 80’s and even then, I would slow down nonchalantly, bend down and pretend to re-tie my perfectly tied shoelaces as I walked outside his practice room so I could hear what he was working on. These are two tenor saxophone players that have captured my attention for many decades now. If you were to gather ten saxophone players around a table and have a discussion about who the cutting edge modern tenor saxophone players of this era would be, the names of Chris Potter and Mark Turner would undoubtedly be mentioned in that discussion. Mark Turner-Transcriptions and Essays by Jeff McGregor I already reviewed the Chris Potter Transcription book, and today I will be reviewing Mark Turner-Transcriptions and Essays. For the last couple of weeks, I have been checking out two amazing transcription books by Jeff McGregor entitled Chris Potter-Transcriptions and Essays and Mark Turner-Transcriptions and Essays. ![]()
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