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“Junestar MrBlackman’s soulful vocals, Ben Krejici’s mellow keyboards and Orion Turre’s nimble, jazzy drumming create a soulful, Curtis Mayfield-like backdrop”
— Jim Testa, The Jersey Journal
“Perhaps part of the explanation for Turre's enthusiasm related to the evening's drummer, who happened to be his son, Orion Turre.
The last time the elder Turre appeared at the Showcase, in July 2014, he invited his son onto the stage to play in a single piece: “With a Song in My Heart.” The young drummer's performance proved promising, prompting me to write that “he deserved his cameo on the bandstand and then some,” his work showing “ample rhythmic drive, steadiness of tempo, control of phrase and sensitivity to tone, gesture and attack.”
Steve Turre apparently concurred, this time making his son the drummer for the entire engagement, which runs through Sunday.“He's not here because he's my son,” Turre told the audience at the outset. “He's here because he can play.”
That much was evident throughout the set, the younger Turre espousing many of the same musical values that define his father's work: musicianship above technical display, sensitivity to color and line and, above all, acuity in responding to what everyone else on the bandstand was playing.”