- Pat Kepic
- Mark Turner Quartet
The first half of this week has a load of great shows, but a bunch of them—like Ty Segall, Sam Smith, and Clean Bandit—are already sold out. But there are still some great ones happening that you can see: there’s Paul Collins Beat at Cobra Lounge and Black Cobra at Reggie’s on Tue 9/23, and Spray Paint at the Empty Bottle on Wed 9/24. And if those don’t do it for you, there are a few more great picks for this week below.
Margasak says about tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, “When he emerged in the 90s, his playing showed the influence of Warne Marsh, from whom he’d absorbed harmonic curiosity and a predilection for engaging in conversational simultaneous improvisations with other horn players. Since 2000 he’s worked in the collective trio Fly with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, and since 2003 his lovely, striated tone has served as the ruminative melodic voice of the Billy Hart Quartet. But it’s great to have him back as a leader on the new Lathe of Heaven, a pianoless quartet album named for Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1971 sci-fi novel. He’s joined on the front line by remarkable Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen—who likewise works without a chordal instrument in his trio Triveni—and the pair demonstrate a preternatural bond, playing Turner’s elegant, serpentine themes in unison and slaloming alongside each other in long passages of yin-yang improvisation.”
