Stanley Turrentine (1934-2000) was an American tenor saxophonist born in Pittsburgh. Rooted in blues and R&B, he became one of the main voices of soul jazz on Blue Note in the 1960s, often working with the organist Shirley Scott, his wife from 1960 to 1971. In the 1970s he recorded for Creed Taylor's CTI, where the album Sugar was one of his biggest successes. Turrentine grew up in a musical family: his father played saxophone with Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans and his older brother Tommy was a trumpeter who later recorded with him.
Horace Silver had been delivering hard bop classics for over a decade when he moved into more groovy territory in the late-’60s on albums including Serenade to a Soul Sisterfeaturing two different quintets performing a set of Silver originals from th…
Anyone interested in hearing Stanley Turrentine go beyond the Blue Note should definitely pick up Sugar; a soulful, deep and chugging record that includes a refined "Sugar" and a transcendent rendition of Coltrane's "Impressions". Working with fellow…
*2024 stock* "Although he is best known for his bluesy soul-jazz outings, tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine's first Blue Note session as a leader was a much more traditional bop affair, and the resulting album... shows as much artful restraint as …
A very welcomed reissue of this long out of print and hard to find Turrentine's Live album. Originally released on Blue Note as two separate volumes, "Up at Mintons' catches the Stanley Turrentine quintet live at the mythical Minton Club in NY, in 19…