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Stanley Turrentine: Sugar
by David Rickert
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
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: I Want a Little Girl, Gee Baby Aint' I Good To You, Blue Riff, Since I Fell For You, Willow Weep For Me, Blues In the Closet, Just In Time, Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You (alt. take), Where Or When, Blue Hour, There Is No Greater Love, Alone Together, Strike Up the Band.
Stanley Turrentine & The Three Sounds: Blue Hour: The Complete Sessions
by C. Andrew Hovan
There’s a disheartening sense of emptiness that surrounds the thought that only one member of the original crew assembled for Blue Hour is still with us, drummer Bill Dowdy. Now at the time of his recent passing, this album remains an incredibly resilient keepsake of Stanley Turrentine’s virility and spirit. The complete story of its development ...
Stanley Turrentine: Do You Have Any Sugar?
by Ed Kopp
Tenor saxman Stanley Turrentine is the rare artist who's equally comfortable playing pop-jazz and straight-ahead jazz. While most of his albums have stuck with one style or the other, Do You Have Any Sugar? bounces successfully between both genres.Pianist Kei Akagi shines on the more mainstream tunes, while singer Niki Harris (daughter of pianist ...
Stanley Turrentine: Do You Have Any Sugar?
by John Sharpe
Sixty-five-year-old tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine has always been among the leaders in the soul-jazz genre. His readily identifiable sound graced some fine sessions for Blue Note during the 60s and a series of albums for the CTI label in the 70s had strong crossover appeal. Do You Have Any Sugar? contains some fine bluesy grooves (Keep ...
Stanley Turrentine: Do You Have Any Sugar?
by Douglas Payne
Beginning with 1974's popular Pieces of Dreams (Fantasy), sugar man Stanley Turrentine began to assume more control of his own recordings. That album turned out to be quite a hit and for the most part since, the tenor great has stuck to mostly commercial settings. But despite the often simple material or occasionally unnecessary sweetening, Turrentine ...
Stanley Turrentine: Do You Have Any Sugar?
by Paula Edelstein
Stanley Turrentine “knows how to tell a story.” In fact, on his 1999 debut for Concord Vista titled, DO YOU HAVE ANY SUGAR? the jazz legend tells 11 of them! The project is a synthesis of traditional grooves in a contemporary context with a variety of styles honed over the four decades that Turrentine has been ...
The Rudy Van Gelder Blue Note Editions
by C. Andrew Hovan
As far as jazz goes from the hard bop era, two names are synonymous with their groundbreaking work of the period-Blue Note Records and recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder. Blue Note released a canon of recordings that have been revered by collectors and musicians alike over the years and Van Gelder was the man behind the ...
