Stanley Turrentine
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.
Sugar (LP)
Original Japanese edition on King/CTI of the 1971 album featuring Ron Carter, George Benson and Freddie Hubbard. With insert.
California Concert (2LP)
Original Japanese edition on CTI of the 1972 double album with a live recording from 1971. With insert.
Stanley Turrentine, Jack DeJohnette, George Benson, Eumir Deodato, Airto Moreira, Freddie Hubbard, Milt Jackson, Ron Carter, Hubert Laws, Bob James, Grover Washington, Joe Farrell, Johnny Hammond, Hank Crawford
CTI Summer Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl Live Two (LP)Original US edition on CTI of the 1977 album with a live recording from 1972. With original innersleeve.
One Night With Blue Note Volume 3 (LP)
Original Japanese edition on Blue Note of the 1985 live album. With insert.
Serenade To A Soul Sister
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 the high-octane ‘Psychedelic Sally’ to the groove waltz title track to the tender ballad ‘Next Time I Fall In Love’. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g …
Sugar
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 CTI artists Freddie Hubbard and George Benson, as well as the great Lonnie Liston Smith jr, Ron Carter and Billy Kaye, this album was engineered by Rudy Van Gelder to create the warmth and depth we love. Some say never judge a book by its cover, but…
Look Out!
*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 it does groove. Not that this is a bad thing, since it allows Turrentine's big, clear tone to shine through in all its muscular sweetness, giving Look Out! a wonderful and flowing coherence" - Steve Leggett
Up At Minton’s
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 1961, when the tenor saxophonist was leading a super tight quintet featuring Grant Green - guitar, Horace Parlan - piano, George Tucker - bass and Al Harewood - drums. This is hard swinging soulful Jazz at its Best!