Career Overview
About Mark Turner
ECM's artist biography identifies Turner as an Ohio-born, Los Angeles-raised tenor saxophonist and follows his label work from Enrico Rava's New York Days through the cooperative trio Fly, Billy Hart's quartet, and a duo with pianist Ethan Iverson.[1]
His ECM leader sequence begins with the 2014 quartet album Lathe of Heaven, continues with a new quartet on Return from the Stars, and retains that personnel for Patternmaster. The catalog distinguishes those leader recordings from Fly and sideman appearances.[1][2][4]