Steve Turre (né Stephen Johnson Turre; born 12 September 1948 Omaha, Nebraska) is an American jazz trombonist, a pioneering musical seashell virtuoso, a composer, arranger, and educator at the collegiate-conservatory level who, for sixty-one years, has been active in jazz, rock, and Latin jazz – in live venues, recording studios, television, and cinema production.

[1][2] As a studio musician, Turre is among the most prolific living jazz trombonist in the world.

[3] As a member of a television orchestra, this is Turre's forty-first year as trombonist with the Saturday Night Live Band.

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