This video ( DVD) posting is made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts with support from the JP Morgan Chase Foundation. For more information on the Latin Jazz Coalition go to www.thelatinjazzcoalition.com, e-mail: kastaris@juno.com
Steve Turre Bio
One of the world's preeminent jazz innovators, trombonist and seashellist Steve Turre, has consistently won both the Readers' and Critics' polls in JazzTimes, Downbeat, and Jazziz for Best Trombone and for Best Miscellaneous Instrumentalist (shells). Turre was born to Mexican-American parents and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area where he absorbed daily doses of mariachi, blues and jazz. While attending Sacramento State University, he joined the Escovedo Brothers salsa band, which began his career-long involvement with that genre.
