Dave Turner, Nelson Symonds - The Pulse Brothers

Styles: Saxophone And Guitar Jazz
Year: 1997
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:05
Size: 151,9 MB
Art: Front

(11:19)  1. Star Eyes
(13:20)  2. Like Someone in Love
(12:02)  3. Black Orpheus
( 9:26)  4. It Could Happen to You
( 7:36)  5. You Stepped out of a Dream
(12:19)  6. Au Privave

A native of Montreal, alto/baritone saxophonist & composer Dave Turner has been a mainstay of the city’s jazz scene since the mid 1970’s. During this time, he has performed extensively with his own groups around the Montreal area, and has been a featured performer at every major Jazz festival in Canada. He has also performed at many prominent clubs on the international jazz scene Top of the Senator (Toronto), Sweet Basil (New York), Le lion s’envole (Liege) and l’Archiduc  (Brussels), Dizzy’s (Rotterdam), Café Alto (Amsterdam).

Dave Turner has been a featured soloist and lead alto saxophonist with the Vic Vogel Big Band since 1979. He has also collaborated with the Orchestre Metropolitain (conducted by Agnes Grossman), the National Arts Center Orchestra (conducted by David Amram) and, in 1999, he performed and recorded with the European Broadcast Union Orchestra in a series of concerts celebrating the centennial of the birth of Duke Ellington. In 1996, Dave Turner was honoured as “Alto Saxophonist of the Year” by Jazz Report magazine. A prolific recording artist, he has released a total of ten albums under his own name, each one receiving wide critical acclaim across Canada, the U.S., and Europe. “Café Alto”, recorded in 1987, was nominated for a Juno. In 1995, he was the recipient of a Teaching Excellence Award from Concordia University for his work in the Jazz Studies program, of which he has been an involved faculty member since 1982. https://www.daveturner.ca/wp/?p=174

Personnel: Dave Turner – alto sax; Nelson Symonds – guitar; Dave Gelfand – bass; Claude Lavergne – drums

The Pulse Brothers

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Guido Basso, Dave Turner - Dedications

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:09
Size: 146.9 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[5:25] 1. Hip Snake Dance
[6:14] 2. Samba Em Preludio
[7:31] 3. Heath's Row
[5:01] 4. The Elegance Of Duke
[5:12] 5. In A Boppish Sort Of Way
[7:33] 6. Eye Of The Mist
[5:16] 7. Cannon Fodder
[4:09] 8. Nowhere To Go
[4:18] 9. Guido Swings
[5:48] 10. Sweet Lady Day
[7:37] 11. Gone Too Soon

GUIDO BASSO (trumpeter, flugelhornist, harmonica-player, arranger, composer, conductor) was born September 27, 1937 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was only nine years old when he began playing the trumpet, becoming recognized as a prodigy while studying at Montreal’s Conservatoire de musique du Quebec. He was just a teenager when he was already becoming prominent on the Montreal club scene, where singer Vic Damone first heard him and took him on international tour with him for two years.

In 1958 he joined singer Pearl Bailey and her bandleader husband, famed drummer Louis Bellson, touring North America with them for three years before moving to Toronto to join the busy studio and television scene there. His playing career as a stand-out sideman and leader, soared, and he became one of the biggest jazz names in the country, and beginning in 1975, frequently organized and led big band concerts at Toronto’s Canadian National Exhibition featuring jazz luminaries including Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie. He can be heard on hundreds of record albums, playing and recording with stars from Buddy Rich and Oliver Jones to Carol Welsman and Diana Kralll. He is currently featured on vocalist Diana Panton’s latest release “Pink”.

Formed in October 1998 to record an improvisational set in Montreal's Maison de la Culture Frontenac (which would result in the album, Year of the Tiger, released in 1999), the Dave Turner Quartet brought together some of Canada's most experienced jazz musicians. Saxophonist Dave Turner and pianist Jean Beaudet formed the home-town core of this group, aided by Toronto musicians Barry Elmes on drums and Steve Wallace on bass. The resulting sound was heavily steeped in bop and swing, with the bulk of the songs featuring Turner's compositions and arrangements.

Dedications

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