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Roger Turner

You Can Blackmail Me Later
"It is not easy to find a description of what constitutes “the art of the duo” in jazz or improvised music. Suffice to say that any credible description would have to encompass the duo of Gallio and Turner, their approaches to playing together and th…
I Dream I Was An Earopean
Temporary Super Offer! "Only ghosts don’t make footfalls (another Beckett title!) that we can hear, don’t need to open and close doors to effect passage. These men together are enacting over a longer duration a strong sense of life- as-lived. They ar…
Taking the Dog for a Walk
After Sunny’s time now, his authoritative portrait of the American Free jazz drumming legend Sunny Murray, Luxembourg filmmaker Antoine Prum turns his attention to the British Free Improvised Music scene in this new feature-length music documentary. …
Molecules
Limited edition of 400. This masterful performance was born of the meeting of two master improvisers, Kazuo Imai from Japan and Roger Turner from the UK. Imai, who studied with Masayuki Takayanagi and Takehisa Kosugi, is one of Japan's leading improv…
Fragments of parts
Roger Turner, drums. Witold Oleszak, piano. Recorded in 2012.'Both players are equally skilled in anticipating the moment at which exposed, entwined resonances will peak and yield their richest fold of textures. They can also both intuit, superbly, w…
Live at White Cube
In collaboration between Christian Marclay and the London Sinfonietta, some of the world’s most renowned contemporary musicians have been invited to stage performances, including new compositions and live improvisation sessions inside the White Cu…
Over The Title
Roger Turner, studio drumset and cymbals. Witold Oleszak, inner piano. Recorded in 2010.
Takanehishigu
Born in 1964, Yukihiro Isso is a Japanese Noh flutist (hayashikata fuekata) from a family that has been playing this instrument since the 16th century. He received his initial instruction in flute playing from his father, Yukimasa Isso, and performed…
live at Hall Egg Farm
English living legend percussionist, Roger Turner plays in Tokyo lin 2015 and this is one of the live performance in Fukaya city, Saitama prefecture. Roger percussion solo, Otomo electric guitar added and Japanese free jazz patriarch, Sato added, the…
live at SuperDeluxe
English living legend percussionist, Roger Turner plays in Japan last year and this is one of the live performance in Tokyo. Roger's feathery and dynamic percussion playing and Otomo Yoshihide's noisy electric guitar playing. An improv meeting of two…
The Last Train
Utterly beguiling recording of two great improvisers at work in the Hara Museum, Tokyo in the winter of 2013. Tthis duo brings together London's Roger Turner on percussion with Japan's own Otomo Yoshihide on guitar and amplifier, an improv meeting …
Kochuu
Isabelle Duthoit, clarinet, voice. Roger Turner, percussion. Alexander Frangenheim, double bass. Recorded in Berlin 2014.
Curare
Daunik Lazro - baritone & alto sax. Jean-François Pauvros - electric guitars. Roger Turner - drums & percussion. Tracks 1 and 2 recorded live at Instants Chavirés (Montreuil) by Jean-Marc Foussat and Dominique Pauvros on 7th November 2008. Tracks 3 a…
Treader Duos
Recorded February 2008, this album captures a specially organised Treader concert at St Giles-in-the-Fields church in London's West End. A series of duos played at the event, each improvising over the course of a twenty-five minute set. First up, the…
Birthdays
Adventurous acoustic guitar & percussion improvisations by two of the finest musicians around. A remarkable range of sounds without any amplification or other electronics, captured in a digital recording that reveals every nuance. "The whole CD sound…
Duos, London 2001
Derek Bailey, electric guitar (tracks 1, 2), acoustic guitar (track 3); Alan Wilkinson, baritone saxophone, voice (track 1); Roger Turner, percussion (track 2); Julian Kytasty, bandura, flute (track 3).
Short in the U.K.
Steve Beresford, keyboards, small trumpet; Dennis Palmer, synthesizers, voice; Bob Stagner, drums, percussion; Roger Turner, drums, percussion. The pencil - a history (09.04), Trees without dogs (00.33), Our world as we know it (05.24), Name without …
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