Roger Turner

Roger Turner is a British percussionist and drummer, born in Kent in 1946, who has worked in free improvisation since the late 1960s. He came out of the Canterbury jazz scene and, from 1974, concentrated on building a personal language for drums and percussion, playing solo and in small groups with improvisers, experimental rock musicians, singers and dancers in Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. Turner held long-running duos with vocalist Phil Minton and guitarist John Russell, and with Russell and Anthony Wood started the CAW label in 1979.