Steve Turre

We are so proud on the 40-year anniversary of the Latin Jazz Coalition, we have 40 artists, and they are stellar.

We're talking about Paquito D'Rivera, Steve Turre, Oscar Hernandez of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, the, the founder and director of the Spanish Harlem.

Um, so many great players.

Luisito Quintero, John Benitez, um, Connie Grossman, um, Alí Bello, Noah Blaess.

So I said, "How do you say, God bless you in Yoruba?" He said, "Olorun abukun yin." So that's what we're singing when we say, Dios les bendiga.

Dios les bendiga mis hermanos, Olorun abukun yin.

So I s- I wanted it in the Yoruba language so that it, when it was heard in Cuba, people would say, "Wow, that's our language." And, um, the soloists are the great Steve Turre, to me, the greatest trombone, jazz trombonist in the world.

I, um, I got to sit next to him 41 years ago for our master's degrees at the Manhattan School of Music.

I saw Peter Washington in New York last night.

He was playing with the great Steve Touré at Smoke, and I went over there, Smoke Jazz and Supper Club, after the Sonny Rollins Memorial, which was yesterday afternoon.

And I was just talking to Peter, not 24 hours ago, about...

this record.

quite a bit of time together on the road in Sonny's band.

Up next, another trombonist and performer that evening, Steve Touré.

He's going to play a composition he wrote for Cedar Walton, the pianist.

This one features Emilio Modeste at the tenor saxophone, Wallace Roney Jr. trumpet, and Isaiah J. Thompson at the piano on Steve Touré's Planting the Seed.

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