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  NPR's Jazz Profiles: Stanley Turrentine
Stanley William Turrentine was one of the most distinctive tenor saxophonists in jazz.
Turrentine's first album for CTI, Sugar, was released in 1970 and yielded the classic tune of the same name.
Nevertheless, Turrentine persevered on the ever-changing landscape of jazz, by tapping into his enduring, soulful sound and bluesy approach.
www.npr.org /programs/jazzprofiles/archive/turrentine.html   (514 words)

  
  Stanley Turrentine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stanley William Turrentine (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
Born in Pittsburgh's Hill District, he began his career with blues and rhythm and blues bands, and was at first greatly influenced by Illinois Jacquet.
Turrentine died of a stroke in New York City September 12, 2000.
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 Amazon.ca: Rough N Tumble: Music: Stanley Turrentine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Stanley was capable of playing more harmonically advanced material, but this is representative of his strength, which is more about tone and timbre than navigating complex chord changes.
turrentine is in fine form as is the larger than usual band, featuring pepper adams on baritone sax, grant green on guitar, blue mitchell on trumpet, and a surprisingly soulful mccoy tyner on piano (he was also in the midst of being in john coltrane's classic free jazz experiments at the time).
Stanley Turrentine was in the prime of his soul-jazz period on this recording.
www.amazon.ca /Rough-N-Tumble-Stanley-Turrentine/dp/B00004SQ2D   (1000 words)

  
 Hill District-born jazz great Turrentine dies
Jazz giant Stanley Turrentine, the tenor saxophonist who grew up in the Hill District and whose hit "Sugar" established him in the popular mainstream, died in Manhattan yesterday after suffering a stroke.
Turrentine collapsed at a hotel Sunday evening, just hours before he was to close out a week-long engagement at the famed Blue Note jazz club in New York City.
Turrentine was 66 and lived in Fort Washington, Md., outside Washington, D.C. He often blurred boundaries with his saxophone playing, mixing jazz with blues, rock, rhythm and blues and pop.
www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000913turrentine1.asp   (593 words)

  
 Missing Stanley Turrentine
Stanley Turrentine had been dead for nearly four days by the time I heard about his passing, and the news came as a surprise.
But Stanley Turrentine had managed to avoid that pitfall by dint of his remarkable ability to fit in wherever he played and in whatever subgenre of jazz he assayed.
Turrentine, despite weathering some criticism for his commercial success by jazz purists, was graceful in his rebuttals and, unlike so many musicians who stagnate after gaining pop-chart credentials, he continued to sharpen his musicianly blade.
www.skyjazz.com /commentaries/turrentine.htm   (648 words)

  
 Jazz News :: The Music of Stanley Turrentine - Celebrating Pittsburgh
Turrentine was best-known for his Blue Note soul-jazz jams of the 1960s and 1970s.
Turrentine's first album for CTI, Sugar, was released in 1970 and yielded the classic tune of the same name.
Turrentine persevered on the ever-changing landscape of jazz, by tapping into his enduring, soulful sound and bluesy approach.
home.nestor.minsk.by /jazz/news/2006/01/0701.html   (1433 words)

  
 Stanley Turrentine - Biography - AOL Music
A legend of the tenor saxophone, Stanley Turrentine was renowned for his distinctively thick, rippling tone, an earthy grounding in the blues, and his ability to work a groove with soul and imagination.
Turrentine recorded in a wide variety of settings, but was best-known for his Blue Note soul-jazz jams of the '60s, and also underwent a popular fusion makeover in the early '70s.
Also in 1960, Turrentine began recording as a leader for Blue Note, concentrating chiefly on small-group soul-jazz on classics like That's Where It's At, but also working with the Three Sounds (on 1961's Blue Hour) and experimenting with larger ensemble settings in the mid-'60s.
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 Stanley Turrentine
While highly regarded in soul jazz circles, Stanley Turrentine was one of the finest tenor saxophonists in any style in modern times.
Turrentine started recording as a leader on Blue Note in 1959 and 1960, while also participating in some landmark Jimmy Smith sessions such as Midnight Special, Back at the Chicken Shack and Prayer Meeting.
Turrentine suffered a massive stroke in early September of 2000, and died less than a week later on September 12.
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 Stanley Turrentine: Sugar (Remastered) - All CDs $5.99 and Free Shipping at yourmusic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Turrentine, a veteran of the soul-jazz scene since the '50s, was accompanied by a who's who of groove players, including guitarist George Benson, Lonnie Liston Smith on electric piano, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, bassist Ron Carter, organist Butch Cornell, and drummer Billy Kaye, among others.
Turrentine and Hubbard stride into the melody and keep the vamp in the pocket, riding out past the blues line into a tag that just revs the thing up even further.
Turrentine is deep inside his horn, ringing out in legato with everything he has -- and it is considerable.
www.yourmusic.com /browse/album/40654.html   (400 words)

  
 KUTE  -  Stanley Turrentine - Resumé & Discography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Stanley was born in 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania into a musical family, his father Thomas being a former tenor player with Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans.
Stanley Turrentine became a crossover star at CTI with albums like Sugar and Don't Mess With Mr.
Stanley continued recording quality albums and playing to enthusiastic audiences right through the nineties until sadly he died of a heart attack in 2000.
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 VH1.com : Stanley Turrentine : Appreciation: Stanley Turrentine Spoke To Fans With Heart, Big Sound - Urge Music ...
Turrentine recorded as a leader and on several of Smith's albums in the '60s, and was often criticized by jazz purists for his soul-jazz, R&B-based approach.
Turrentine lived in Fort Washington, Md., near Washington, D.C. Two memorial services are planned in Pittsburgh, where Turrentine was born.
Turrentine's wife, Judith, requests that in lieu of flowers donations be made to the American Diabetes Association, 300 Penn Center Blvd., Suite 700, Pittsburgh, PA 15235.
www.vh1.com /artists/news/1124048/09132000/turrentine_stanley.jhtml   (840 words)

  
 STANLEY TURRENTINE: SALT SONG
Stanley had already recorded the opening tune, Freddie Hubbard-penned “Gibraltar”, one year before on the sessions that yielded “Sugar”, but Creed decided not to include none of the two existing versions in the original album release because he simply found both too monotonous.
Turrentine moves into a reflexive mood on “I Told Jesus”, a traditional tune that he beautifully adapted with the assistance of Deodato.
Stanley’s ballad artistry is featured on “I Haven’t Got Anything Better To Do”, a pop-hit from the ‘60s rarely heard as an instrumental vehicle by jazzmen, but recorded by several singers of such diverse styles as Astrud Gilberto and Esther Philips (listen to Esther’s version on the compilation “Kiss Jer Soul”, KICJ 180).
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 Blue Note Stanley Turrentine Qt./Sxt. Sessions (#212)
At a time when musicians began pursuing an astonishing array of disciplines and personal quests, when many regarded “jazz” and “revolution” as interchangeable terms, Turrentine was at the forefront of a group of musicians who believed in melody and song; in extending and interpreting traditions, not in detonating them.
You hear the word “soulful” a lot when people talk about Stanley Turrentine, and what they really mean is the emotion he expressed through his confident control of every note.
Turrentine often told the story of being drilled by his musician dad.
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 Stanley Turrentine: Jazz Moods -- Cool - PopMatters Music Review
Turrentine always had that greasy-sweet tenor sound, and it was refined further when he played with Earl Bostic and then Max Roach.
Relaxation was inherent in Turrentine's playing, and that may have been why he was frequently employed in the Stan Getz role on bossa dates.
Turrentine had a minor "hit" with "Pieces of Dreams", a Michel LeGrand tune that Turrentine turned into a bit of a standard.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/t/turrentinestanley-jazzmoods.shtml   (1080 words)

  
 Review - STANLEY TURRENTINE: Never Let Me Go   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Never Let Me Go is wonderful tenor sax and organ jazz performed by Stanley Turrentine and his then wife, Shirley Scott, respectively, joined by either Major Holley or Sam Jones on bass, Al Harewood or Clarence Johnston on drums, and Ray Barretto on congas.
Turrentine and Scott collaborated well together; each one developed their own voice without dominating the proceedings.
Turrentine on tenor does his best Ben Webster impression, nailing the song's emotional nuances and sending chills up and down the listener's spine.
www.cosmik.com /aa-august04/reviews/review_stanley_turrentine.html   (208 words)

  
 Stanley Turrentine: The Hard Bop Homepage
Born in Pittsburgh in 1934, Stanley Turrentine took up saxophone at the age of eleven, encouraged by his father, who had played the same instrument with Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans.
During this ten-year period, Turrentine recorded regularly as a sideman for the label on albums by Horace Parlan, Art Taylor, Jimmy Smith, Duke Jordan, Horace Silver, Duke Pearson, and Kenny Burrell.
Turrentine tends to play on top of the beat, making for a deep, trancelike groove, and his phrasing draws on both modern jazz and R&B. Angular lines alternate with timeless blues phraseology.
members.tripod.com /~hardbop/stanley.html   (467 words)

  
 Tribute at the Kennedy Center to Stanley Turrentine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Turrentine died last September and about 20 musicians took the stage to pay him homage, playing tunes associated with Turrentine or simply playing in his bluesy, soul jazz style.
The show worked well because it was mainly about music, with only a few testimonials about what "a great honor it was to know a great man who was a great artist" coming at the end.
Turrentine was a fine player, he said, but the history of the music wouldn't have been any different if he hadn't lived.
www.dcjazz.com /reviews/turrentine.htm   (529 words)

  
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 Stanley Turrentine MP3 Downloads - Stanley Turrentine Music Downloads - Stanley Turrentine Music Videos
A legend of the tenor saxophone, Stanley Turrentine was renowned for his distinctively thick, rippling tone, an earthy grounding in the blues, and his ability to work a groove with soul and imagination.
Turrentine recorded in a wide variety of settings, but was best-known for his Blue Note soul-jazz jams of the '60s, and also underwent a popular fusion makeover in the early '70s.
Also in 1960, Turrentine began recording as a leader for Blue Note, concentrating chiefly on small-group soul-jazz on classics like That's Where It's At, but also working with the Three Sounds (on 1961's Blue Hour) and experimenting with larger ensemble settings in the mid-'60s.
www.mp3.com /artist/stanley-turrentine/summary   (409 words)

  
 Stanley Turrentine Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musicians Directory
Stanley Turrentine was born April 4, 1934 in Pittsburgh, the son of
Turrentine recorded as a leader and on several of Smith's albums in the '60s, and was often criticized by jazz purists for his soul-jazz, RandB-based approach.
Turrentine's wife, Judith, requests that in lieu of flowers donations be made to the American Diabetes Association, 300 Penn Center Blvd., Suite 700, Pittsburgh, PA 15235.
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 Stanley Turrentine
To me they would be wise to simply put the picture of Stanley Turrentine next to both of these words and a note to just listen to this man play tenor saxophone to understand the definitions.
I first met Stanley in New York City at a rehearsal for a recording I was doing five years ago with a cooperative group I play in called Three of a Kind.
At the beginning of the first rehearsal Stanley was a little standoffish playing the big star routine, but after the first tune he realized that we were a happening trio and he changed his attitude and really started to play.
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 Stanley Turrentine
I just got back from a Stanley Turrentine concert at Tilles Center--a concert hall/theater on the campus of C.W. Post College in Greenvale, NY on Long Island.
Then Turrentine added his presence to the group and showed he hasn't lost a thing.
Turrentine infuses even the schlock like "Don't Mess with Mister T" and "Pieces of Dreams" with his soulful sound and feeling.
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 Stanley Turrentine on Rhapsody
Along with Hank Crawford, Stanley Turrentine put Soul Jazz saxophone on the map.
Turrentine has a big, robust sound that excelled with both the...
Hear Stanley Turrentine and similar artists on this channel.
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 Amazon.com: Hustlin: Music: Stanley Turrentine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine joined organist Jimmy Smith for some of the greatest organ / tenor sax recordings ever made.
Turrentine and Scott are joined on "Hustlin'" by Kenny Burrell (another major contributor to the Jimmy Smith discography,) bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Otis Finch.
However the album is really made by Turrentine, whose choice of material allows him to oil and embellish all the tracks with his own style of fluid and at times languid tenor sax.
www.amazon.com /Hustlin-Stanley-Turrentine/dp/B00006C77G   (735 words)

  
 Shirley Scott And Stanley Turrentine, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
Especially popular was their 1958 hit "In the Kitchen." Her reputation was cemented during the '60s on several superb, soulful organ/soul-jazz dates where she demonstrated an aggressive, highly rhythmic attack blending intricate bebop harmonies with bluesy melodies and a gospel influence, punctuating everything with great use of the bass pedals.
Scott married soul-jazz tenor man Stanley Turrentine, with whom she often recorded in the '60s.
The Scott/Turrentine union lasted until the early '70s, and their musical collaborations in the '60s were among the finest in the field.
www.emusic.com /artist/10566/10566185.html   (413 words)

  
 Ballads: Stanley Turrentine | Classical Music Online
Stanley Turrentine and Gene Harris combine in the first track "Willow Weep for Me" with the best way to relax after a hard day.
For anyone (or especially anytwo) who hold in their hearts a scintilla of romance this is the quintessential soundtrack.
My favorite Turrentine album since "The Baddest Turrentine", this one has Stanley's smooth, soulful sound, but without the overproduced "strings flooding in" that diminishes many of his other recordings.
www.onlineclassical.com /ItemId/B000005HGK   (377 words)

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