STANLEY TURRENTINE

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Born in Pittsburgh in 1934, Stanley Turrentine took up saxophone at the age of eleven, encouraged by his father, who had played the same instrument with Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans. Turrentine's first professional gig was with Lowell Fulson's blues band. "I guess my sound started back then," he says, "I couldn't avoid the blues. That band had a blind piano player in it, name of Ray Charles."

Charles was already writing songs, which Turrentine would transcribe after they finished work in the joints and barns the band played. After leaving Fulson, Turrentine moved to Cleveland, where he gigged with Tadd Dameron before going on the road again in Earl Bostic's R&B combo. Following two years in the army (1956-1958), he joined Max Roach.

It was at this point that Turrentine began to make an impression in the jazz world. In particular, he caught the attention of Alfred Lion, who signed him to
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STANLEY TURRENTINE Look Out! (aka The Soul Of Stanley Turrentine) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Look Out! (aka The Soul Of Stanley Turrentine)
Soul Jazz 1960
STANLEY TURRENTINE Blue Hour album cover 4.89 | 3 ratings
Blue Hour
Soul Jazz 1961
STANLEY TURRENTINE Dearly Beloved album cover 3.50 | 2 ratings
Dearly Beloved
Soul Jazz 1961
STANLEY TURRENTINE That's Where It's At album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
That's Where It's At
Soul Jazz 1962
STANLEY TURRENTINE Jubliee Shout!! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jubliee Shout!!
Soul Jazz 1962
STANLEY TURRENTINE Never Let Me Go album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Never Let Me Go
Soul Jazz 1963
STANLEY TURRENTINE Stan 3.50 | 1 ratings
Stan "The Man" Turrentine
Soul Jazz 1963
STANLEY TURRENTINE A Chip Off The Old Block album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
A Chip Off The Old Block
Soul Jazz 1964
STANLEY TURRENTINE Joyride album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Joyride
Soul Jazz 1965
STANLEY TURRENTINE Hustlin' album cover 3.50 | 2 ratings
Hustlin'
Soul Jazz 1965
STANLEY TURRENTINE Rough 'N' Tumble album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rough 'N' Tumble
Soul Jazz 1966
STANLEY TURRENTINE Let It Go album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Let It Go
Soul Jazz 1966
STANLEY TURRENTINE Easy Walker album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Easy Walker
Soul Jazz 1967
STANLEY TURRENTINE The Spoiler album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Spoiler
Soul Jazz 1967
STANLEY TURRENTINE Always Something There album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Always Something There
Soul Jazz 1968
STANLEY TURRENTINE The Look Of Love album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Look Of Love
Soul Jazz 1968
STANLEY TURRENTINE Common Touch album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Common Touch
Soul Jazz 1968
STANLEY TURRENTINE Flipped - Flipped Out album cover 2.00 | 2 ratings
Flipped - Flipped Out
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1970
STANLEY TURRENTINE Another Story album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Another Story
Soul Jazz 1970
STANLEY TURRENTINE Salt Song album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Salt Song
Soul Jazz 1971
STANLEY TURRENTINE Sugar album cover 3.00 | 3 ratings
Sugar
Soul Jazz 1971
STANLEY TURRENTINE Cherry (with Milt Jackson) album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Cherry (with Milt Jackson)
Soul Jazz 1972
STANLEY TURRENTINE Don't Mess With Mister T. album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Don't Mess With Mister T.
Soul Jazz 1973
STANLEY TURRENTINE Pieces of Dreams album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Pieces of Dreams
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1974
STANLEY TURRENTINE Have You Ever Seen The Rain album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Have You Ever Seen The Rain
Soul Jazz 1975
STANLEY TURRENTINE The Sugar Man album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Sugar Man
Soul Jazz 1975
STANLEY TURRENTINE In The Pocket album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
In The Pocket
Soul Jazz 1975
STANLEY TURRENTINE The Man With The Sad Face album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Man With The Sad Face
Soul Jazz 1976
STANLEY TURRENTINE Everybody Come On Out album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Everybody Come On Out
Soul Jazz 1976
STANLEY TURRENTINE Nightwings album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Nightwings
Soul Jazz 1977
STANLEY TURRENTINE What About You! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
What About You!
Soul Jazz 1978
STANLEY TURRENTINE Jubilee Shouts (aka Jubilee Shout!!!) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jubilee Shouts (aka Jubilee Shout!!!)
Soul Jazz 1978
STANLEY TURRENTINE Jubilee Shouts album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jubilee Shouts
Soul Jazz 1978
STANLEY TURRENTINE West Side Highway album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
West Side Highway
Soul Jazz 1978
STANLEY TURRENTINE In Memory Of album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
In Memory Of
Soul Jazz 1979
STANLEY TURRENTINE New Time Shuffle album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
New Time Shuffle
Soul Jazz 1979
STANLEY TURRENTINE Betcha album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Betcha
Soul Jazz 1979
STANLEY TURRENTINE Inflation album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Inflation
Soul Jazz 1980
STANLEY TURRENTINE Mr. Natural album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Mr. Natural
Soul Jazz 1980
STANLEY TURRENTINE Use The Stairs album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Use The Stairs
Soul Jazz 1980
STANLEY TURRENTINE Tender Togetherness album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tender Togetherness
Soul Jazz 1981
STANLEY TURRENTINE Ain't No Way album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Ain't No Way
Soul Jazz 1981
STANLEY TURRENTINE Home Again album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Home Again
Soul Jazz 1982
STANLEY TURRENTINE Straight Ahead album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Straight Ahead
Soul Jazz 1985
STANLEY TURRENTINE ZT's-Blues album cover 5.00 | 1 ratings
ZT's-Blues
Soul Jazz 1985
STANLEY TURRENTINE Wonderland (Stanley Turrentine Plays The Music Of Stevie Wonder) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Wonderland (Stanley Turrentine Plays The Music Of Stevie Wonder)
Soul Jazz 1987
STANLEY TURRENTINE La Place album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
La Place
Soul Jazz 1989
STANLEY TURRENTINE More Than a Mood album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
More Than a Mood
Post Bop 1992
STANLEY TURRENTINE If I Could album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
If I Could
Soul Jazz 1993
STANLEY TURRENTINE T Time album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
T Time
Soul Jazz 1995
STANLEY TURRENTINE Do You Have Any Sugar? album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Do You Have Any Sugar?
Soul Jazz 1999
STANLEY TURRENTINE Stanley Turrentine and The Three Sounds ‎: Blue Hour Volume Two album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Stanley Turrentine and The Three Sounds ‎: Blue Hour Volume Two
Soul Jazz 2000

STANLEY TURRENTINE EPs & splits

STANLEY TURRENTINE live albums

STANLEY TURRENTINE Up at Minton's, Volume 1 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Up at Minton's, Volume 1
Soul Jazz 1961
STANLEY TURRENTINE Up at Minton's, Volume 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Up at Minton's, Volume 2
Soul Jazz 1961
STANLEY TURRENTINE Live! At Blues Alley album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live! At Blues Alley
Soul Jazz 1991

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STANLEY TURRENTINE Stanley Turrentine album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Stanley Turrentine
Soul Jazz 1971
STANLEY TURRENTINE The Baddest Turrentine album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Baddest Turrentine
Soul Jazz 1973
STANLEY TURRENTINE Another Fine Mess album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Another Fine Mess
Soul Jazz 1975
STANLEY TURRENTINE Comin' Your Way album cover 5.00 | 1 ratings
Comin' Your Way
Soul Jazz 1987
STANLEY TURRENTINE The Best of Stanley Turrentine album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Best of Stanley Turrentine
Soul Jazz 1989
STANLEY TURRENTINE Ballads album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ballads
Soul Jazz 1993
STANLEY TURRENTINE Blue Hour: The Complete Sessions album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blue Hour: The Complete Sessions
Soul Jazz 2000
STANLEY TURRENTINE The Blue Note Stanley Turrentine Quintet/Sextet Studio Sessions album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Blue Note Stanley Turrentine Quintet/Sextet Studio Sessions
Soul Jazz 2002
STANLEY TURRENTINE A Bluish Bag album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Bluish Bag
Soul Jazz 2007
STANLEY TURRENTINE Return Of The Prodigal Son album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Return Of The Prodigal Son
Soul Jazz 2008
STANLEY TURRENTINE The Essential Stanley Turrentine album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Essential Stanley Turrentine
Soul Jazz 2015

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STANLEY TURRENTINE Flipped - Flipped Out

Album · 1970 · Pop/Art Song/Folk
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Throughout much of the 60s and early 70s, saxophonist Stanley Turrentine participated in some of the finest RnB flavored jazz records out there. Fast forward to 1977 and the jazz world is going through some serious growing pains as artists forget about the music and concentrate on the money with watered down fusion and disco ruling the day. Turpentine’s “Flipped-Flipped Out” came out in 77 and carries a lot of the commercial baggage of that time period. The first side is the worse with very simplistic arrangements of Motown classics done up with bland strings and uninspired lead lines from Stanley. All of these old Motown chestnuts were gems in their original formats, but these instrumental readings on “Flipped” drain all the fun and life out of the originals. As I was listening to Turrentine’s tired reading of “My Cherie Amour”, I couldn’t help comparing it to Rahsan Roland Kirk’s vibrant and lively version of the same song.

On the second side things improve a bit as the arrangers mostly leave out the simple string arrangements and go for a more RnBish rhythm section and some backing horns. Gone also are the tired Motown covers, replaced with somewhat generic RnB tunes by arranger Monk Higgins and cohort Dee Ervin. Fans of Turrentine and RnB/jazz in general may want to get this album for the tunes on the second side, they’re ok, but Stanley has done better. The first side is mostly ignorable, there’s no rule that says that pop-jazz has to be this bland.

STANLEY TURRENTINE Sugar

Album · 1971 · Soul Jazz
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Tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine spent most of his career mixing jazz with RnB on records that ranged from highly regarded soul jazz to outright pop and disco fluff. His 1971 release, “Sugar”, fortunately falls more in the former style than the latter and features some nice grooves for fans of the classic soul jazz sound. In a typical mix of styles from that period you get hard bop swing on the title track “Sugar”, jazzy proto funk on “Sunshine” and hard bop driven by groovy double time congas on “Impressions”. If you get the CD re-issue you also get a bonus live version of “Sugar” that rocks harder than the original and also breaks down into solo spots for superb performances by Freddie Hubbard and George Benson. All of the playing throughout this CD is excellent, and each track features lengthy solos that allow Turrentine and the others to really stretch out. The make or break for this album is its "CTI sound" which is a little more smooth in its extra reverb and compression than your more usual gritty sounding soul jazz outing. Whether this sound is cool 70s kitsch or just plain phony depends on your perspective.

STANLEY TURRENTINE Blue Hour

Album · 1961 · Soul Jazz
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Those late night Jazz albums that are full of beautifully played ballads or a slowed down version of a more faster tempo number, that seem just perfect to hear late a night in the small hours of the morning are really not such an easy find because although you may think of many primarily late night sessions that might fit the mould they must have one neccesary major component for myself, being the Blues. This being the major reason that this album "Blue Hour" is one of the absolute stand-outs for after midnight spinning. Blue Note records has another two that do fit this high standard being Ike Quebec's, "Blue And Sentimental" and Grant Greens, "Idle Moments". This collaboration of Stanley Turrentine and The Three Sounds was suggested by Alfred Lion originally and is just as good if not better than Ike and Grant's albums. The material is all from the second session which was recorded in December 1960 with the first session recorded six months earlier. Alfred Lion really only wanted two more numbers during this 2nd session to use with the remaining material from the earlier session to make up an album but things hit that groove and "when you are hot, you are hot" which precisely what the musicians were when this session was recorded.

We are very early days in Stanley Turrnentine's career at Blue Note as he had only started with label earlier that year in April recording as a sideman with Dizzy Reece and by the end of the year come December he had appeared at Blue Note studio's counting close to double figures. Two of the albums that he appeared as a sideman in this time was on one of Blue Note's big sellers, Jimmy Smith's, "Back At The Chicken Shack" as well as his album debut on the label being "Look Out" within this 8 month time span. Stanley's early experience with Ray Charles has a major influence on his approach that he took for his playing within the album keeping that Blues grit but presented as stunning late night Jazz.

The Three Sounds being a trio are led by Gene Harris on piano and they had been selling a few at Blue Note as well for Alfred and Francis the owners when they first joined the label in 1958. In 1959 they had recorded a meeting with Lou Donaldson generating the album "LD+3" and although quite a good result was achieved with the album it is "Blue Hour" which is the far better album. The band is Stanley Turrentine on gruff tenor saxophone as that great gruff was always in his tone with also Gene Harris, tinkling piano, Andrew Simpkins, bass and Bill Dowdy doing a fair bit of brushing on drums.

Gene Harris leads the first composition on the album in, on piano being "I Want A Little Girl" with a slow rolling blues feel and throughout Gene remembers what he is playing being blues with passages within his playing being straight quick blues additions at times.Stanley's tenor not only has the great up and down volume but he does not over play with beautiful spacing and volume levels within his playing. The blues keeps coming by the bucketload with the following "Gee, Baby Ain't I Good To You" with Stanley coming in a lot earlier into this tune than the previous with superb spacing and not only from Stanley on tenor but the whole band is sublime. Gene Harris plays perfectly with his approach by using blues passages within his solos but still keeping it Jazz. There are three more tracks on the album with "Blue Riff" being the most sprightly at a mid-tempo but it does not detract from that late night feel and actually it is great to get away from the ballads giving the album a refesh if you like for the last two numbers with both being ballads. "Since I Fell For You" is more of that beautiful slow spaced approach taken to the album and runs for just under nine minutes with the last track actually not a ballad but played at at much slower tempo from its original form with a version that runs just short of ten glorious minutes being the standard "Willow Weep For Me".

One of the best out there for this style and one of my essential Jazz albums. You can get all the sessions together these days on a double cd with "Blue Hour" the actual album comprising the first disc with two numbers and an alt take from the 2nd session included with all the material from the first session on the 2nd disc. Hope that did not confuse you but "who was on first base?" as Abbot and Costello asked each other.

STANLEY TURRENTINE Sugar

Album · 1971 · Soul Jazz
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On ‘Sugar’ Turrentine plays it smoother.

Too smooth? For me, it almost is. The album has a nice laid back feel, but it’s almost languid at times. The standard formula for many jazz albums, where solos are traded off between key players, is held to here, with the signature riff of the title track ‘Sugar’ revisited like bookends in the track. Turrentine’s first solo in the song is his most inspired, in what is probably the strongest cut on the record. Again, with much of CTI output from the early 1970s, the focus can be on ensemble playing and the impressive synergy between players and ‘Sugar’ is no different there, in that you have Hubbard, Benson and Carter as sidemen to name a few.

Soul Jazz is a nice genre for this album, as the focus is on that feel or sound, and Turrentine’s playing here is even sensual at times, perhaps no surprise considering the cover. ‘Sunshine Alley’ is a fair song, with a nice organ solo and some quintessential soloing from Hubbard toward the end, but doesn’t grab me. Perhaps the reasonably sedate, but by no means poor, drumming from Kaye adds to this feel.

‘Impressions’ is where things are kicked up a notch. You get more of a bop feel to Turrentine’s cover of the Coltrane song, and his soloing is more frenetic, the rest of the band feeding off this. Especially nice in this track is Carter’s bass, always solid but at times making his presence known by throwing in some interesting runs and flourishes.

Overall, it’s fine playing that offers a smooth, soul-inspired set of songs, with the standout ‘Sugar’ being the highpoint of an album that has no real flaws for me, save for being a little too smooth. While it doesn’t have strings of excessive overdubbing, the mood and playing doesn’t shift a lot between tracks and only the title track really stays with me. Three stars, a good album, with great playing, but not a favourite for me.

The reissue also includes a live cut of the title track, altering the line-up by adding Cobham on the kit and Hank Crawford on Alto, among others, and providing a harder, better version of the song.

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