[Dixielandjazz] Bruce Turner

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Bruce as I remember said that he couldn't be compared with any American alto player
because he was an English alto player. 

On the other hand, Ruby Braff reported John Hammond's comment that Bruce 

wasn't to be considered as an English or a European jazzman 

but the rare case of an entirely idiomatic major jazzman not born in America 
As Humph said remembering Bruce's time in his band, and Bruce's party trick
of soloing in the styles respective to a series of masters (which alas I never heard)
"Mine ears have heard the glory.."

Amen to that!
Robert R. Calder