Stanley Turrentine
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Stanley William Turrentine, also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 tenor saxophonist
Tenor saxophone
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...

.

Biography

Turrentine was born in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...

's Hill District
Hill District (Pittsburgh)
The Hill District is a collection of neighborhoods that is considered by many to be the cultural center of African-American life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, an American city. Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay once called the district "the crossroads of the world," referring to the...

 into a musical family. His father, Thomas Turrentine, Sr., was a saxophonist with Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans
Savoy Sultans
-Savoy Sultans :The original Savoy Sultans were formed by saxophonist Al Cooper, and played at the Savoy Ballroom from 1937 to 1946. This small swing jazz ensemble was comprised, at various times, Jack Chapman, Sam Massenberg, Jesse Drakes and Pat Jenkins on trumpets; Skinny Brown, Rudy Williams,...

, his mother played stride piano, and his older brother Tommy Turrentine
Tommy Turrentine
Thomas Walter Turrentine, Jr. was a swing and hard bop trumpeter of the 1940s to 1960s, the older brother of saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.-Biography:...

 also became a professional trumpet player.

He began his prolific career with blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 and rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 bands, and was at first greatly influenced by Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet
Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, best remembered for his solo on "Flying Home", critically recognized as the first R&B saxophone solo....

. In the 1950s, he went on to play with the groups of Lowell Fulson
Lowell Fulson
Lowell Fulson was a big-voiced blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. Fulson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also recorded for business reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom...

, Earl Bostic
Earl Bostic
Earl Bostic was an American jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist, and a pioneer of the post-war American Rhythm and Blues style. He had a number of popular hits such as "Flamingo", "Harlem Nocturne", "Temptation", "Sleep", "Special Delivery Stomp", and "Where or When", which showed off his...

, and at the turn of the decade, Max Roach
Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel "Max" Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history...

.

He married the organist Shirley Scott
Shirley Scott
Shirley Scott was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist. She was most known for working with her husband, Stanley Turrentine, and with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis...

 in 1960 and the two frequently played and recorded together. In the 1960s, he started working with organist Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith (musician)
Jimmy Smith was a jazz musician whose performances on the Hammond B-3 electric organ helped to popularize this instrument...

, and made many soul jazz
Soul jazz
Soul jazz is a development of jazz incorporating strong influences from blues, soul, gospel and rhythm and blues in music for small groups, often an organ trio featuring a Hammond organ.- Overview :Soul jazz is often associated with hard bop. Mark C...

 recordings both with Smith and as a leader.

In the 1970s, after his professional split and divorce from Scott, Turrentine turned to jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...

 and signed for Creed Taylor's CTI label. His first album for CTI, "Sugar" proved one of his biggest successes and a seminal recording for the label. He worked with Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...

, Milt Jackson
Milt Jackson
Milton "Bags" Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms...

, Bob James
Bob James (musician)
Robert McElhiney James is a jazz keyboardist, arranger and producer.-Biography:During the 1970s, Bob James played a major role in establishing the smooth jazz genre. "Angela", the instrumental theme from the sitcom Taxi, is probably Bob James' most well-known work to date...

, Richard Tee
Richard Tee
Richard Tee was a pianist, studio musician, singer and arranger.Tee graduated from the High School of Music and Art and attended the Manhattan School of Music. Though better known as a studio and session musician, Tee led a jazz ensemble, the Richard Tee Committee, and was a founding member of the...

, Idris Muhammad
Idris Muhammad
Idris Muhammad is a jazz drummer. He changed his name in the 1960s upon his conversion to Islam. He is known for his funky playing style. He has released a number of albums as leader, and has played with a number of jazz legends including Lou Donaldson, Johnny Griffin, Pharoah Sanders and Grover...

, Ron Carter
Ron Carter
Ron Carter is an American jazz double-bassist. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar. Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on that...

, and Eric Gale
Eric Gale
Eric J. Gale was a leading American jazz and session guitarist.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Gale began playing guitar at the age of 12. Although he majored in chemistry at Niagara University, Gale was determined to pursue a musical career, and began contributing to accompaniments for such stars as...

, to name a few. He returned to soul jazz in the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Turrentine lived in Ft. Washington, Maryland from the early 90s until his death.
He died of a stroke
Stroke
A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

 in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 on September 12, 2000 and is buried in Pittsburgh's Allegheny Cemetery
Allegheny Cemetery
Allegheny Cemetery is one of the largest and oldest burial grounds in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.It is a nonsectarian, wooded hillside park located at 4734 Butler Street in the Lawrenceville neighborhood and bounded by Bloomfield, Garfield, and Stanton Heights...

.

As leader

Blue Note Records
  • 1960 Look Out!
    Look Out!
    Look Out! is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine featuring his earliest recordings as a leader on the Blue Note label performed by Turrentine with Horace Parlan, George Tucker and Al Harewood....

  • 1960 Blue Hour
    Blue Hour
    Blue Hour is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and The Three Sounds recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkins and Bill Dowdy...

     with The Three Sounds
    The Three Sounds
    The Three Sounds were an American jazz trio that formed in 1956 and disbanded in 1973. The trio played and recorded with Lester Young, Lou Donaldson, Nat Adderley, Johnny Griffin, Anita O'Day, Bucky Pizzarelli, Stanley Turrentine and Sonny Stitt among others.The band formed in Benton Harbor,...

  • 1961 Comin' Your Way
    Comin' Your Way
    Comin' Your Way is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with his brother Tommy Turrentine, Horace Parlan, George Tucker, and Al Harewood...

  • 1961 Up at "Minton's"
    Up at "Minton's"
    Up at "Minton's" is an live album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Grant Green, Horace Parlan, George Tucker, and Al Harewood...

  • 1961 Dearly Beloved
    Dearly Beloved (album)
    Dearly Beloved is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, and Roy Brooks.-Reception:...

  • 1961 ZT's Blues
    ZT's Blues
    ZT's Blues is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1961 but not released until 1985 and performed by Turrentine with Tommy Flanagan, Grant Green, Paul Chambers, and Art Taylor.-Reception:...

  • 1962 That's Where It's At
    That's Where It's At
    That's Where It's At is a Jazz album by Stanley Turrentine recorded by Rudy Van Gelder for Blue Note Records. It features the first collaborations between Stanley Turrentine and pianist Les McCann who would only reunite one more time in 1984 for two tracks on Turrentine's record Straight Ahead...

  • 1962 Jubilee Shout!!!
    Jubilee Shout!!!
    Jubilee Shout!!! is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine compiled from two sessions recorded for the Blue Note label, the first performed by Turrentine with his brother Tommy Turrentine, Horace Parlan, George Tucker, and Al Harewood in 1961 and a 1962 session with Kenny Burrell added and...

  • 1963 Never Let Me Go
    Never Let Me Go (Stanley Turrentine album)
    Never Let Me Go is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, Major Holley, Ray Barretto, and Al Harewood with Sam Jones and Clarence Johnston replacing Holley, Barretto and Harewood on two tracks.- Reception :The...

  • 1963 A Chip Off the Old Block
    A Chip Off the Old Block (album)
    A Chip off the Old Block is an album of tunes associated with Count Basie by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, Blue Mitchell, Earl May, and Al Harewood with Tom McIntosh and Charles Davis added on two tracks.-...

  • 1964 Hustlin'
    Hustlin' (album)
    Hustlin' is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, Kenny Burrell, Bob Cranshaw, and Otis Finch.-Reception:...

  • 1964 In Memory Of
    In Memory Of (album)
    In Memory Of is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, recorded for the Blue Note label in 1964 but not released until the 1980s, and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, Curtis Fuller, Herbie Hancock, Bob Cranshaw, and Otis Finch....

  • 1964 Mr. Natural
    Mr. Natural (Stanley Turrentine album)
    Mr. Natural is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, recorded for the Blue Note label in 1964 but not released until the 1980s, and performed by Turrentine with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw, Elvin Jones, and Ray Barretto....

  • 1965 Joyride
    Joyride (Stanley Turrentine album)
    - Track listing :#"River's Invitation" - 6:18#"I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone" - 4:25#"Little Sheri" - 6:29#"Mattie T." - 5:59#"Bayou" - 6:18...

  • 1966 Rough 'n' Tumble
    Rough 'n' Tumble
    Rough 'n' Tumble is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, James Spaulding, Pepper Adams, McCoy Tyner, Grant Green, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Roker with arrangements by Duke Pearson.-Reception:The...

  • 1966 Easy Walker
    Easy Walker
    Easy Walker is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Roker...

  • 1966 The Spoiler
    The Spoiler (album)
    The Spoiler is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, James Spaulding, Pepper Adams, McCoy Tyner, Julian Priester, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Roker with arrangements by Duke Pearson.-Reception:The...

  • 1967 A Bluish Bag
    A Bluish Bag
    A Bluish Bag is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine consisting of two sessions recorded for the Blue Note label in 1967 and arranged by Duke Pearson, the first featuing Donald Byrd and the second featuring McCoy Tyner.- Reception :...

  • 1967 The Return of the Prodigal Son
    The Return of the Prodigal Son (album)
    The Return of the Prodigal Son is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine consisting of two sessions recorded for the Blue Note label in 1967 and arranged by Duke Pearson featuring McCoy Tyner-Reception:The Allmusic review by Michael G...

  • 1968 The Look of Love
    The Look of Love (Stanley Turrentine album)
    The Look of Love is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1968 and arranged by Duke Pearson and Thad Jones.-Reception:...

  • 1968 Common Touch
    Common Touch
    Common Touch is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine featuring Shirley Scott recorded for the Blue Note label in 1968 and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, Jimmy Ponder, Bob Cranshaw and Leo Morris.-Reception:...

  • 1968 Always Something There
    Always Something There
    Always Something There is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1968 and performed by Turrentine with orchestra and strings arranged by Thad Jones.-Reception:...

  • 1969 Another Story
  • 1984 Straight Ahead
    Straight Ahead (Stanley Turrentine album)
    Straight Ahead is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, his first recorded for the Blue Note label since Another Story in 1969, featuring four performances by Turrentine with Jimmy Smith, George Benson, Ron Carter, and Jimmy Madison and two tracks with Les McCann, Jimmy Ponder, Peter...

  • 1986 Wonderland
    Wonderland (Stanley Turrentine album)
    Wonderland is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, his second recorded for the Blue Note label following his return to the label in 1984, featuring four performances of tunes associated with Stevie Wonder by Turrentine with Don Grusin, Ronnie Foster, Mike Miller, Abe Laboriel, Harvey...

  • 1989 La Place
  • 1993 Ballads


CTI Records
  • 1970 Sugar
    Sugar (Stanley Turrentine album)
    Sugar is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, his first recorded for the CTI Records label following his long association with Blue Note, featuring performances by Turrentine with Freddie Hubbard, George Benson, Ron Carter, and Billy Kaye with Lonnie Liston Smith added on the title...

  • 1971 The Sugar Man
    The Sugar Man
    The Sugar Man is an album by Stanley Turrentine. The recording is a compilation of four separate dates, each with different conductors, arrangers and other personnel...

     - (released in 1975)
  • 1971 Salt Song
    Salt Song
    Salt Song is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the CTI Note label featuring performances by Turrentine with an orchestra arranged by Eumir Deodato...

  • 1972 Cherry
    Cherry (album)
    Cherry is a 1972 album by saxophonist Stanley Turrentine featuring Milt Jackson.-Track listing:# "Speedball" – 6:39# "I Remember You" – 5:10# "The Revs" – 7:46...

      (with Milt Jackson)
  • 1973 Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine In Concert Volume One
    Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine In Concert Volume One
    Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine In Concert Volume One is a live album recorded in 1973 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine...

  • 1973 In Concert Volume Two
    In Concert Volume Two (Freddie Hubbard & Stanley Turrentine album)
    In Concert Volume Two is a live album recorded in 1973 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard pianist, Herbie Hancock and tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine...

  • 1973 Don't Mess with Mister T.
    Don't Mess With Mister T.
    Don't Mess With Mister T. is a Stanley Turrentine album produced by Creed Taylor on his label, CTI. It was arranged by Bob James and recorded at Van Gelder Studio in June 1973.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 4½ stars....



Fantasy Records
  • 1974 Pieces of Dreams
    Pieces of Dreams
    Pieces of Dreams is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, his first recorded for the Fantasy label after associations with Blue Note Records and CTI, featuring performances by Turrentine with an orchestra arranged and conducted by Gene Page...

  • 1975 In the Pocket
    In the Pocket (Stanley Turrentine album)
    In the Pocket is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, his second recorded for the Fantasy label after associations with Blue Note Records and CTI, featuring performances by Turrentine with an orchestra arranged and conducted by Gene Page...

  • 1975 Have You Ever Seen the Rain
    Have You Ever Seen the Rain (album)
    Have You Ever Seen the Rain is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, his third recorded for the Fantasy label, featuring performances by Turrentine with Freddie Hubbard and an orchestra arranged and conducted by Gene Page...

  • 1976 Everybody Come on Out
  • 1977 Nightwings
  • 1977 West Side Highway
  • 1978 What About You!
  • 1980 Use the Stairs


Other labels
  • 1966 Let It Go
    Let It Go (Stanley Turrentine album)
    Let It Go is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Impuse! label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, Ron Carter, and Mack Simpkins...

     (Impulse!
    Impulse! Records
    Impulse! Records was an American jazz record label, originally established in 1960 by producer Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records, based in New York City...

    )
  • 1965 Tiger Tail (Mainstream Records
    Mainstream Records
    Mainstream Records was an American record label, which released jazz, rock music, and soundtracks during the 1970s.It was founded in 1964 by Bob Shad, and in its early history reissued material from Commodore Records and Time Records in addition to some new jazz material...

    )
  • 1960 Stan "The Man" Turrentine (Bainbridge)
  • 1976 Man with the Sad Face - Bainbridge
  • 1977 Love's Finally Found Me - Classic World
  • 1979 Soothsayer - Elektra
  • 1979 Betcha - Elektra
  • 1980 Inflation - Elektra
  • 1981 Tender Togetherness
    Tender Togetherness
    Tender Togetherness is a 1981 Jazz album by tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine which was released on Elektra Records. The album was produced by former Earth, Wind & Fire member Larry Dunn and featured a cover of EWF's "After the Love Has Gone"...

     - Elektra
  • 1983 Home Again - Elektra
  • 1991 The Look of Love - Huub
  • 1992 More than a Mood - Music Masters
  • 1993 If I Could - Music Masters
  • 1995 Three of a Kind Meet Mr. T - Minor Music
  • 1995 T Time - Music Masters
  • 1995 Time - Music Masters
  • 1999 Do You Have Any Sugar? - Concord Jazz

As sideman

With Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell
Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell is an American jazz guitarist. His playing is grounded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians.-Biography:...

  • 1963: Midnight Blue (Blue Note)
  • 1964: Freedom (Blue Note)

With Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II, is an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd is best known as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pioneered the funk and soul genres while simultaneously remaining a...

  • 1964: Up with Donald Byrd
    Up with Donald Byrd
    Up with Donald Byrd is an album by American trumpeter Donald Byrd featuring performances by Byrd with Jimmy Heath, Stanley Turrentine, Herbie Hancock, and Kenny Burrell recorded in 1964...

     (Verve
    Verve Records
    Verve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records and Norgran Records , and material which had been licensed to Mercury previously.-Jazz and folk origins:The Verve...

    )
  • 1964: I'm Tryin' to Get Home
    I'm Tryin' to Get Home
    I'm Tryin' to Get Home is an album by American trumpeter Donald Byrd featuring performances by Byrd with a large brass section and vocalists recorded in 1964 and released on the Blue Note label in 1965 as BLP 4188.-Reception:...

     (Blue Note)

With Georgie Fame
Georgie Fame
Georgie Fame is a British rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. The one-time rock and roll tour musician, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still a popular performer, often working with contemporaries such as Van Morrison and Bill Wyman.-Early life:Fame took piano lessons from the...

  • 1996: The Blues and Me (Go Jazz)

With Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto is a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer. She is well known for the Grammy Award-winning song "The Girl from Ipanema".-Biography:...

  • 1971: Gilberto with Turrentine (CTI
    CTI Records
    CTI Records was a jazz record label founded in 1967 by producer/A&R manager Creed Taylor. Initially, CTI was a subsidiary of A&M Records, but the label went independent in 1970...

    )

With Roy Hargrove
Roy Hargrove
Roy Anthony Hargrove is an American jazz trumpeter. He won worldwide notice after winning two Grammy Awards for differing types of music, in 1997, and in 2002...

  • 1993: With the Tenors of Our Time
    With the Tenors of Our Time
    -Track listing: # "Soppin' The Biscuit" – 7:59# "When We Were One" – 5:59# "Valse Hot" – 6:57# "Once Forgotten" – 5:45# "Shade Of Jade" – 5:24# "Greens At The Chicken Shack" – 5:45# "Never Let Me Go" – 5:36# "Serenity" – 5:35...

     (Verve)

With Gene Harris
Gene Harris
Gene Harris was an American jazz pianist known for his warm sound and blues and gospel infused style that is known as soul jazz....

  • 1985: Gene Harris Trio Plus One (Concord Jazz
    Concord Jazz
    Concord Jazz is a subsidiary of Concord Records, owned by Concord Music Group.-Dozens of albums:*Charlie Byrd*Ruby Braff*Dave McKenna*Marian McPartland*Rosemary Clooney*Scott Hamilton*Tito Puente*George Shearing*Gene Harris*Mel Tormé*Monty Alexander...

    )

With Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...

  • 1987: Life Fight
    Life Flight (album)
    Life Fight is an album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard recorded in January 1987 and released on the Blue Note label. It features performances by Hubbard, Larry Willis, Stanley Turrentine, George Benson, and Ralph Moore. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "This CD captures the great trumpeter...

     (Blue Note)

With Duke Jordan
Duke Jordan
Irving Sidney "Duke" Jordan was an American jazz pianist.-Biography:An imaginative and gifted pianist, Jordan was a regular member of Charlie Parker's so-called "classic quintet" , featuring Miles Davis...

  • 1960: Flight to Jordan
    Flight to Jordan
    Flight to Jordan is an album by American pianist Duke Jordan recorded in 1960 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 5 stars and stated "the music has plenty of strong melodies and variety...

     (Blue Note)

With Diana Krall
Diana Krall
Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million worldwide; altogether, she has sold more albums than any other female jazz artist during the 1990s and 2000s...

  • 1994 Only Trust Your Heart
    Only Trust Your Heart
    Only Trust Your Heart is the second album by Canadian jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall, released in 1995 .The song "Only Trust Your Heart" is a jazz standard, usually played bossa nova, published by MCA Music Publishing, written by American music legends Benny Carter and Sammy Cahn.-Track...

     (GRP
    GRP Records
    GRP Records is an American jazz record company, owned by Universal Music Group and operates through its Verve Music Group. The company's name has had different meanings. In its early days, it stood for "Grusin/Rosen Productions," after the founders...

    )

With Abbey Lincoln
Abbey Lincoln
Anna Marie Wooldridge , better known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was a jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. Lincoln was unusual in that she wrote and performed her own compositions, expanding the expectations of jazz audiences.-Biography:Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was one of many...

  • 1959: Abbey Is Blue (Riverside
    Riverside Records
    Riverside Records was a United States record label specializing in jazz. Founded by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer under his firm Bill Grauer Productions, Inc. in 1953, the label was a major presence in the jazz record industry for a decade...

    )
  • 1991: Devil's Got Your Tongue (Verve)

With Les McCann
Les McCann
Les McCann is an American soul jazz piano player and vocalist whose biggest successes came as a crossover artist into R&B and soul.-Biography:...

  • 1961: Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Pacific Jazz
    Pacific Jazz Records
    Pacific Jazz Records was a Los Angeles-based record label best known for releasing cool jazz or West coast jazz. It was founded by Richard Bock and drummer Roy Harte in 1952....

    )

With Jimmy McGriff
Jimmy McGriff
James Harrell McGriff was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who developed a distinctive style of playing the Hammond B-3 organ.-Early years and influences:...

  • 1969: Electric Funk
    Electric Funk
    Electric Funk is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff featuring performances recorded in 1969 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:...

     (Blue Note)

With David "Fathead" Newman
  • 1988: Fire! Live at the Village Vanguard (Atlantic)

With Horace Parlan
Horace Parlan
Horace Parlan is an American hard bop and post-bop piano player.He is noted for his contributions to the classic Charles Mingus recordings Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots....

  • 1960: Speakin' My Piece
    Speakin' My Piece
    Speakin' My Piece is the third album by American jazz pianist Horace Parlan featuring performances recorded and released on the Blue Note label in 1960.-Reception:...

     (Blue Note)
  • 1961: On the Spur of the Moment
    On the Spur of the Moment
    On the Spur of the Moment is the fifth album by American jazz pianist Horace Parlan featuring performances recorded and released on the Blue Note label in 1961.-Reception:...

     (Blue Note)

With Duke Pearson
Duke Pearson
Duke Pearson was an American jazz pianist and composer. Allmusic notes him as being a "big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction in the 1960s as a producer."-History:...

  • 1965: The Right Touch
    The Right Touch
    The Right Touch is the tenth album by American pianist and arranger Duke Pearson featuring performances recorded in 1967 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:...

     (Blue Note)

With Ike Quebec
Ike Quebec
Ike Quebec was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. His surname is pronounced KYOO-bek.Critic Alex Henderson wrote, "Though he was never an innovator, Quebec had a big, breathy sound that was distinctive and easily recognizable, and he was quite consistent when it came to down-home blues, sexy...

  • 1962: Easy Living
    Easy Living (Ike Quebec album)
    Easy Living is an album by American saxophonist Ike Quebec recorded in 1962 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1987. The album collects all the material recorded in Januaury 1962, five tracks from which were released in 1981 as Congo Lament....

     (Blue Note)

With Dizzy Reece
Dizzy Reece
Alphonso Son "Dizzy" Reece is a hard bop jazz trumpeter with a distinctive sound and compositional style.Reece was born 5 January 1931 in Kingston, Jamaica, the son of a silent film pianist. He attended the Alpha Boys School , switching from baritone to trumpet at 14...

  • 1960: Comin' On!
    Comin' On!
    Comin' On! is an album by Jamaican-born jazz trumpeter Dizzy Reece featuring performances recorded at two sessions in 1960 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1999...

     (Blue Note)

With Max Roach
Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel "Max" Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history...

  • 1959: Quiet as It's Kept (Mercury
    Mercury Records
    Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...

    )
  • 1959: Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (Mercury)
  • 1960: Parisian Sketches (Mercury)

With Mongo Santamaria
Mongo Santamaría
Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez was an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard "Afro Blue," recorded by John Coltrane among others. In 1950 he moved to New York where he played with Perez Prado, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Fania All...

  • 1970: Mongo's Way (Atlantic
    Atlantic Records
    Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

    )

With Shirley Scott
Shirley Scott
Shirley Scott was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist. She was most known for working with her husband, Stanley Turrentine, and with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis...

  • 1961: Hip Soul (Prestige)
  • 1961: Hip Twist (Prestige)
  • 1963: The Soul is Willing
    The Soul Is Willing
    The Soul Is Willing is a studio album by organist Shirley Scott recorded and released in 1963 for Prestige as PRLP 7267. It features famous saxophonist Stanley Turrentine...

     (Prestige)
  • 1963: Soul Shoutin'
    Soul Shoutin'
    Soul Shoutin' is a studio album by organist Shirley Scott recorded in 1963 for Prestige and issued in early 1964 as PRLP 7312. It also features famous saxophonist Stanley Turrentine...

     (Prestige)
  • 1964: Blue Flames (Prestige)
  • 1964: Everybody Loves a Lover
    Everybody Loves a Lover (album)
    Everybody Loves a Lover is an album by jazz organist Shirley Scott recorded for the Impuse! label in 1964 and performed by Scott with Stanley Turrentine, Bob Cranshaw and Otis Finch...

     (Impulse!)
  • 1964: Queen of the Organ
    Queen of the Organ
    Queen of the Organ is a live album by American jazz organist Shirley Scott recorded in 1964 for the Impulse! label. The CD reissue added four additional performances from the same concert as bonus tracks.-Reception:...

     (Impulse!)
  • 1968: Soul Song (Atlantic
    Atlantic Records
    Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

    )

With Marlena Shaw
Marlena Shaw
Marlena Shaw is an American singer. Shaw began her singing career in the 1960s and is still singing today. Her music has often been sampled in hip hop music, and used in television commercials.-Biography:She was first introduced to music by her uncle Jimmy Burgess, a jazz trumpet player...

  • 1997: Elemental Soul (Concord Jazz)

With Horace Silver
Horace Silver
Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....

  • 1968: Serenade to a Soul Sister
    Serenade to a Soul Sister
    Serenade to a Soul Sister is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1968, featuring performances by Silver with Charles Tolliver, Stanley Turrentine, Bennie Maupin, Bob Cranshaw, John Williams, Mickey Roker and Billy Cobham...

     (Blue Note)

With Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith (musician)
Jimmy Smith was a jazz musician whose performances on the Hammond B-3 electric organ helped to popularize this instrument...

  • 1960: Midnight Special
    Midnight Special (Jimmy Smith album)
    Midnight Special is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith featuring performances recorded in 1960 and released on the Blue Note label...

     (Blue Note)
  • 1960: Back at the Chicken Shack
    Back at the Chicken Shack
    Back at the Chicken Shack is an album by Jimmy Smith. It was recorded in 1960 and released in 1963 on the Blue Note label. It was cited in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.- Track listing :...

     (Blue Note)
  • 1961: Prayer Meetin'
    Prayer Meetin'
    Prayer Meetin' is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith featuring performances recorded in 1963 and released on the Blue Note label...

     (Blue Note)
  • 1968: Stay Loose (Verve)
  • 1982: Off the Top (Elektra/Musician
    Elektra/Musician
    Elektra/Musician was a jazz record label founded as a subsidiary of Elektra Records in 1982.-Discography:...

    )
  • 1986: Go Fot Watcha Know (Blue Note)
  • 1990: Fourmost (Milestone
    Milestone Records
    Milestone Records is a United States based jazz record label, founded in 1966 by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New York City. The company was incorporated into Fantasy Records in 1972, since then it has been used for reissues as well as for new recordings....

    )

With Art Taylor
Art Taylor
Arthur S. Taylor, Jr. was an American jazz drummer of the hard bop school.After playing in the bands of Howard McGhee, Coleman Hawkins, Buddy DeFranco, Bud Powell, and George Wallington from 1948 to 1957, he formed his own group, the Wailers...

  • 1960: A.T.'s Delight
    A.T.'s Delight
    A.T.'s Delight is an album by American drummer Art Taylor recorded in 1960 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Steve Leggett awarded the album 4 stars and stated "A.T.'s Delight is a solid outing, with a wonderfully nervous but completely focused energy".-Track...

     (Blue Note)

With Tommy Turrentine
Tommy Turrentine
Thomas Walter Turrentine, Jr. was a swing and hard bop trumpeter of the 1940s to 1960s, the older brother of saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.-Biography:...

  • 1960: Tommy Turrentine with Stanley Turrentine (Time)

External links

  • Stanley Turrentine Hard Bop Homepage accessed March 23, 2011
  • Stanley Turrentine biography All About Jazz
    All About Jazz
    All About Jazz is a leading jazz music website for enthusiasts and industry professionals based in Philadelphia in the United States.Founded by Michael Ricci in 1995, the Web-Site is maintained by a volunteer staff of writers, editors, and musicians, and provides coverage of all genres of jazz from...

    accessed January 6, 2010
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