1. Steve Turre has recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader, and appeared on many more as a contributor or sideman.
12 Facts About Steve Turre
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Steve Turre has been a member of the Saturday Night Live Band since 1985.
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Steve Turre is one of five children born to James Boles Steve Turre and Carmen Marie.
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Steve Turre's father was of Northern Italian ancestry and his mother was of Mexican ancestry.
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Steve Turre's grandfather Ernest Turre was a founder of the San Francisco 49ers with Tony Morabito.
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Steve Turre began playing trombone at age ten, during his fourth grade in school.
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Steve Turre's second wife was cellist Akua Dixon was born on 1948 and from 1978 to 2012, with whom he had two children, Andromeda Turre, a jazz vocalist and composer and Orion Turre a jazz drummer.
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Steve Turre has been trombonist for the Saturday Night Live band since 1985 and has taught jazz trombone at the Manhattan School of Music since 1988.
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Steve Turre has a collection of shells of various sizes, most of them picked up during his travels in the Caribbean and elsewhere.
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Steve Turre leads "Sanctified Shells," which is a "shell choir" made up of brass players who double on seashell.
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Steve Turre has had a long experience with Latin jazz and is a skilled player of the cowbell and Venezuelan maracas.
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Steve Turre earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst through the University Without Walls in 1980 with a focus in Afro-American Music and Jazz.