“Lookout Salsoul Orchestra!,” wrote DownBeat in its one-and-a-half-star review of the 1976 album The Man with the Sad Face (March 10, 1977), “Stanley Turrentine’s comin’ ta getcha! Yes folks, this may well be the most distinguished cast that ever bothered to lend its class to trash, spelled c-a-s-h. (…) As dubious consolation it must be…
Two By Mr. T.: “Nightwings” (1977) and “West Side Highway” (1978)
Tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine (1934-2000) is best remembered for his string of Blue Note albums in the sixties and a brief foray at CTI in the early seventies, particularly his 1970 “breakout” Sugar. In 1974, Turrentine left CTI for a much more lucrative contract with Berkeley-based Fantasy Records, a label that was home at the…
Stanley Turrentine: The Blue Notes of Mr. T – 1975-81
Tenor sax great Stanley Turrentine (1934-2000) recorded a remarkable 15 albums for the Blue Note label between 1960’s Look Out! and 1970’s lesser-known Another Story. But Turrentine waxed a substantial number of sessions for the label during that period that were never issued until well into his better-known and far more popular albums on the…