Join us on November 29, 2025, as we kick off the holiday season with master trombonist and seashellist Steve Turre! This exclusive engagement at the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music promises an unforgettable night of incomparable mastery, joy, and hard-driving swing.
Rounding out this all-star ensemble are Bay Area jazz treasures Glen Pearson (piano), Sylvia Cuenca (drums), and Marcus Shelby (bass), each bringing their own brand of brilliance to what promises to be an unforgettable evening of music.
NOV 29, 2025
2 shows
8 pm & 9:30 pm
Tix
Gen Adm: $25 adv/$30-door
Seniors: $20 adv/$25-door
This concert is made possible in part by support from Jazz in the Neighborhood, individual donors, and the Oakland Cultural Fund.
ABOUT STEVE TURRE
One of the world’s preeminent jazz innovators, trombonist and seashellist Steve Turre, has consistently won both the Readers’ and Critics’ polls in JazzTimes, Downbeat, and Jazziz for Best Trombone and for Best Miscellaneous Instrumentalist (shells). Turre was born to Mexican-American parents and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, where he absorbed daily doses of mariachi, blues, and jazz. While attending Sacramento State University, he joined the Escovedo Brothers salsa band, which began his career-long involvement with that genre.
In 1972, Steve Turre’s career picked up momentum when Ray Charles hired him to go on tour. A year later, Turre’s mentor Woody Shaw brought him into Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. After his tenure with Blakey, Turre went on to work with a diverse list of musicians from the jazz, Latin, and pop worlds, including Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, J.J. Johnson, Herbie Hancock, Lester Bowie, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Van Morrison, Pharoah Sanders, Horace Silver, Max Roach, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The latter introduced hum to the seashell as an instrument. Soon after that, while touring Mexico City with Woody Shaw, Turre’s relatives informed him that his ancestors had also played the shells. Since then, Turre has incorporated seashells into his diverse musical style.
Learn more about Steve on his website:
https://steveturre.com/
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