“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…