Richard Turner obituary

Versatile trumpeter who led the contemporary jazz quartet Round Trip and played with Friendly FiresThe trumpeter Richard Turner, a regular sideman with the indie-pop band Friendly Fires and one of a gifted crop of recent graduates from the Royal Academy of Music's jazz course, has died aged 27 of a ruptured aortic aneurysm while swimming. Turner's inspirations were audibly rooted in the work of such warm-toned, harmonically-subtle trumpeters as Clifford Brown and the former Count Basie soloist C...

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