Bruce Turner

Malcom Bruce Turner (5 July 1922 and educated at Dulwich College, he learned to play the clarinet as a schoolboy and began playing alto saxophone while serving in the Royal Air Force in 1943 during World War II. He played with Freddy Randall

He returned to Randall's group from 1964 to 1966, and played with Don Byas (1966) and Acker Bilk (1966–70). He continued to work with Lyttelton and Ind in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and he played with the Jump Band intermittently; he also worked with Wally Fawkes, John Chilton, Stan Greig (1975–76), Alex Welsh, and Dave Green. He led small ensembles in the 1990s until his death in 1993 in Newport Pagnell. He was noted for his quiet voice. Humphrey Lyttelton claimed that on a clear day it could be heard two inches away. His eccentricities included speaking a private language in which everybody, regardless of age or gender, was called "Dad", he repeated phrases, and he used outdated slang such as "Some fun, I'd say!" from comics of the 1930s.

Turner's autobiography Hot Air, Cool Music, published by Quartet Books, appeared in 1984. He wrote a column on jazz for the Daily Worker.

As sideman or guest With Wild Bill Davison 1965 With Freddy Randall and His Band 1975 Wild Bill Davison with Ted Easton and his Jazzfriends 1986 Lady of the Evening 1998 Struttin' with Some Barbecue 1999 Swinging Wild

With Ewan MacColl 1965 The Ballad of John Axon 1966 Singing the Fishing 1968 The Travelling People with Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger 1999 The Song of a Road with Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger

With others 1955 The 1955 London Sessions, Big Bill Broonzy 1974 Swinging Scorpio, Buddy Tate 1983 It Seems Like Yesterday, Humphrey Lyttelton 1987 Before My Time, Lol Coxhill 1989 There's Yes! Yes! In Your Eyes, Patrick Halcox 1992 Last of the Blues Shouters, Big Miller & the Blues Machine 1993 More Than Pye in the Sky, Lonnie Donegan