Jeff McGregor, on lessons learned from committing Mark Turner's improvising to paper

New York saxophonist, composer and educator Jeff McGregor first discovered the music of Mark Turner through Turner’s collaborations with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, and as he tells it, was “totally hooked” from there on out.
This interest in Turner’s very personal and deeply influential music eventually led McGregor, a Calgary native, to write his new book entitled Mark Turner: Transcriptions & Essays, a collection of meticulously notated solos paired with a series of