Mark Turner

Mark Turner is an American tenor saxophonist and composer, born in Fairborn, Ohio, in 1965 and raised in Southern California. A Berklee graduate who settled in New York in 1990, he plays long, harmonically dense lines that reach into the altissimo register. He is known for the cooperative trio Fly and for a run of albums as a leader on ECM. Turner's early albums as a leader include Yam Yam and Dharma Days (2001), and he has worked often with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. Fly, with Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard, released Sky & Country (2009) and Year of the Snake (2012) on ECM.