Brad Turner is a Canadian jazz trumpeter and pianist. He has won three

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s and six Canadian National Jazz Awards for categories including Jazz Trumpeter of the Year, Jazz Composer of the Year, and Musician of the Year.

Career

Turner graduated from R. E. Mountain Secondary School in 1985, and attended

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's jazz studies program. A year later he transferred to

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, and played and composed for the very well known

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. He graduated from UNT in 1992 after finishing his master's degree. Upon graduation, Turner returned to Vancouver and formed the ''Brad Turner Quartet'', which consisted of Bruno Hubert on piano, André Lachance on bass, and Dylan Van der Schyff on drums. The four have been playing together since, and have established themselves as one of Canada's most respected jazz groups. Turner also has the long-standing "Brad Turner Trio" (with Andre Lachance on bass and Bernie Arai on drums), where he mostly plays piano. Turner was one of the founding members of the jazz fusion group Metalwood which formed in 1997. The members played together until 2003, and had a reunion album released in 2016 entitled ''Twenty'' (referring to their 20th anniversary as a group). Later that year, the group went on tour to support the album, which lead them to winning a Juno Award as best group jazz album of the year. Turner has also performed and recorded with such artists as

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, Dylan Van der Schyff, Mike Murley,

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, and

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. Turner currently lives in

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, and is on faculty at

Capilano University Capilano University (CapU) is a teaching-focused public university based in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located on the slopes of the North Shore Mountains, with programming that also serves the Sea-to-Sky Corridor and the Sunshi ...

in North Vancouver, where he has been teaching for over two decades. He has also been the director of

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ensemble since the late 1990s.

Discography

As leader

* ''1994 - Long Story Short'' - Brad Turner Quartet * ''1998 - There and Back'' - Brad Turner Quartet * ''1999 - Live at the Cellar'' - Brad Turner Quartet with

(Recorded live at ''Cellar Jazz Club'') * ''2005 - Question the Answer'' (2005) - Brad Turner Trio * ''2005 - What Is'' - Brad Turner Quartet * ''2007 - Small Wonder'' - Brad Turner Quartet * ''2011 - It's That Time -'' Brad Turner Quartet, (Recorded live at ''Cory Weeds' Cellar Jazz Club'') * ''2015 - Here Now'' - Brad Turner Trio * ''2015 - Over My Head'' - Brad Turner Quartet * ''2018 - Pacific'' - Brad Turner * ''2019 - Jump Up'' - Brad Turner Quartet

With Metalwood

* 1997 - Metalwood * 1998 - Metalwood 2 * 1999 - Metalwood Live * 2001 - Metalwood 3 * 2001 - Recline * 2003 - Chronic * 2016 - Twenty

Awards

*2020: Juno Award for Jazz Album of the Year – Group nomination (for "Jump Up", with Brad Turner Quartet) *2017: Juno Award for Best Group Jazz Album (For album Twenty, with Metalwood) *2015: Juno nomination for Best Traditional Jazz Album (for album "Over My Head", with Brad Turner Quartet) *2009: Juno nomination for Best Traditional Jazz Album (for album "Small Wonder", with Brad Turner Quartet) *2008: Nominated for Canadian National Jazz Awards for Instrumentalist of the Year *2008: Canadian National Jazz Award for Producer of the Year *2008: Canadian National Jazz Award for Trumpeter of the Year *2006: Best Jazz Album at the 2006 Western Canadian Music Awards (for album "What Is",with Brad Turner Quartet) *2006: Nominated for Canadian Indie Music Awards (for the album "Question the Answer") *2006: Recipient of the Victor Lynch - Staunton Prize for excellence in musical achievement. *2005: Nominated for Canadian Urban Music Awards (for the album "Question the Answer", Brad Turner Trio) *2005: Canadian National Jazz Award for Musician of the Year *2002: Juno nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album (for album "The Recline", with Metalwood) *2002: Canadian National Jazz Award for Jazz Trumpeter of the Year *2001: Juno nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album (for "Metalwood 3", with Metalwood) *2001: Jazz Report magazine's Jazz Composer of the Year *2000: Canadian National Jazz Award for Jazz Composer of the Year *1999: Jazz Report magazine's Trumpeter of the Year *1999: Canadian National Jazz Award for Jazz Trumpeter of the Year *1998: Jazz Report magazine's Jazz Composer of the Year *1998: Juno Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album (with Metalwood) *1997: Juno Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album (with Metalwood)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Brad 1967 births Living people Canadian jazz trumpeters Canadian male trumpeters Academic staff of Capilano University Juno Award winners University of North Texas College of Music alumni 21st-century Canadian trumpeters 21st-century Canadian male musicians Canadian male jazz musicians