Fly

Fly is the cooperative jazz trio of saxophonist Mark Turner, drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier. The group first surfaced as the Jeff Ballard Trio in 2000 on one track of the anthology Originations, curated by Chick Corea (Ballard was Chick's drummer at the time) and became Fly with the release of their first album, on Savoy, in 2004. Association between the players however goes back much further. Grenadier and Ballard played music together as teenagers in California in the early 1980s and subsequently gigged together often. They both migrated to the US's East coast in 1990 where they met Turner, and the three musicians have played in diverse permutations and contexts since then. In Fly, Turner, Grenadier and Ballard all write material. Mark Turner: “Sometimes it’s the saxophone carrying the melody. Other times it’s the bass or drums. We spread out the frontline duties among us. Jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano said about their interplay on the Year of the Snake-album: "Fly is a beautiful trio, they play with a wonderful clarity. And Mark plays with a brilliant execution on his horn. [...] He plays with an amazing range on his instrument. That trio has a classical approach in the way the music is written and the way they come off it in the rhythm and in the attitude they're playing. They're improvising but their dialogue is more classical in nature, the way it feels. [...] That's expression, the waves, the life forms, the wind. Fly sounds lovely and beautiful and their music has a real presence, it captures you."

Time Steel - 2017-07-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Beat Making, Vol. 1 - 2011-10-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Sky & Country - 2009-04-03T00:00:00.000000Z

FLY - 2005-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Tonight - 2025-04-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Dope (Prod. Keyzeey56Mp3) - 2024-11-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Pasilda - 2024-05-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Your Love - 2023-07-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Sing It Back (Cantame Spanish Version OR3X Remix) - 2023-03-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Can You Tell - 2022-11-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Fake Love - 2022-07-27T00:00:00.000000Z

Sing It Back - 2022-05-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Help Me - 2021-12-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Close the Door - 2021-10-20T00:00:00.000000Z

This Galaxy - 2021-08-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Vrai Ou Faux - 2021-01-15T00:00:00.000000Z

So Free (Fly & Sasha Fashion Remix) - 2020-11-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Love Story - 2020-08-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Summer Days - 2020-05-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Longer - 2020-04-23T00:00:00.000000Z

You're Something Special - 2019-12-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Pa Fè Chich - 2019-04-12T00:00:00.000000Z

I Don't Know How - 2019-03-18T00:00:00.000000Z

No Me Llores - 2018-12-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Samurai - 2018-08-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Fly