It’s a feast of the interplay between trumpet and tenor sax on the new one by Mark Turner ★★★★☆

The Californian tenor saxophonist Mark Turner made the beautiful album with trumpeter Avishai Cohen eight years ago Lathe of Heaven† Always special, a quartet album without a chord instrument like piano or guitar, and this was one of those that you still regularly go back to. There is now also a sequel. Return from the Stars made Turner not with Cohen, whose own career has really taken off, but with the more unknown Jason Palmer.

But once again it is delicious to enjoy the interplay between trumpet and tenor sax. Sometimes in unison, often nicely spinning around each other, rhythmically supported by the also new drummer Jonathan Pinson. His open, almost melodic drumming style gives the songs something graceful, which keeps the deep solos of both gentlemen in the air.

And deep they go. Turner usually leads the way with his big Wayne Shorter-esque sound, but in It’s Alright With Me tells Palmer that Turner doesn’t need a celebrity like Cohen for an appropriate response. This is a great duo that doesn’t need a piano or guitar to come together.