Results for "Stanley Turrentine"

Stanley Turrentine: Dearly Beloved

by David Rickert
November 29, 2008

If ever there was a horn that was a perfect pairing with the Hammond B-3, it was Stanley Turrentine's. His best work was always done in combination with an organ (usually that of his wife Shirley Scott) where he coaxed out purring, laid back melodies over simmering chords. The Prestige label would take the organ combo ...

Touching

Featuring the music of Stanley Turrentine
Duration: 6:32
April 5, 2008

Stanley Turrentine

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

Webster's dictionary defines the word “soul" as someone having a strong and positive feeling and having an intense sensitivity and emotional fervor. It also says that soul is characterized by an intensity of feeling and earthiness. It defines the word “funky" similarly as someone having an earthy unsophisticated style and feeling. To me they would be ...

Jazz Moods - Cool

By Stanley Turrentine

Label: Epic
Released: 2005

The Funk Transition

by AAJ Staff
April 6, 2003

Some time back a student of music, Chris, wrote to me an email, asking a very interesting question: “Why is it that some jazz musicians preferred to adopt funk instead of jazz-rock when the transition took place." There were more sub-queries, but this itself is a calls for a thesis, just as he was writing one. ...

The Blue Note Stanley Turrentine Quintet/Sextet Studio Sessions

By Stanley Turrentine

Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 40 performances, including four previously unissued takes

Sugar

By Stanley Turrentine

Label: CTI Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Sugar; Sunshine Alley; Impressions; Sugar(live).

Stanley Turrentine: The Blue Note Stanley Turrentine Quintet/Sextet Studio Sessions

by C. Andrew Hovan
August 1, 2002

With Mosaic Records expanding its horizons over the past few years, fans of many different styles have had the opportunity to expand their collections and recent Mosaic honorees have included Mildred Bailey, Eddie Condon, Bobby Hackett, Chico Hamilton, and Anita O’Day. But to those long time followers, it continues to be the hard bop verities of ...

Stanley Turrentine: Sugar

by David Rickert
May 6, 2002

With Sugar Stanley Turrentine finally delivered on the promise of his Blue Note albums, which were for the most part unspectacular. Following the standard blueprint of the CTI label, Turrentine runs through a handful of steamy, soul jazz workouts with some veterans from the recently deceased hard bop era as well as some up-and-comers from the ...

Blue Hour - The Complete Sessions

By Stanley Turrentine

Label: Epic
Released: 2000