I just had the pleasure of seeing Mark Turner, Jason Palmer, Joe Martin, and Marcus Gilmore at the University of New Hampshire on recently. I hadn't seen Mark play for years and it was amazing to hear him. A few thoughts about the show which was comprised completely of Mark's original material. 1) This guy knows how to write for a chord-less band. It struck me how involved the melodies were. The majority of them had 32 or 64 bars of written material at the beginning, some … [Read more...]