Saxophonist Mark Turner favors quality over quantity. Lathe of Heaven—his first outing as a leader since 2001—is his first on the ECM label. Turner has hardly been absent from the music scene as the ...

I trained as a centre lathe turner, and made things in metalware a lot of the time. That was in Keighley in Yorkshire. I trained in Leeds, but I worked in Keighley. We were making parts for engines.

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Mark Turner's steady rise to the front ranks of contemporary improvisers is testament to a unique combination of attitude, ability, sound and imagination. Inventive and subtly unpredictable, the tenor ...