Stanley Turrentine ‎– Look Out! (1960)

“With his husky, unequivocally masculine, blues-infused tone, Stanley Turrentine belongs to an elite group of saxophonists who developed a distinctive sound that can easily be identified after hearing just two or three notes. In an interview from 1974, the Pittsburgh-born tenor player revealed that his father instilled in him at an early age the need to develop his own voice. … Though this disciplined and laborious approach initially mystified the young Stanley, he realised the value in his father’s advice. ‘There’s so many ways you can hit one note,’ he later said. ‘There’s a way you attack the note, the way you breathe, how much air you put into the horn, the vibrato.’ Turrentine developed his approach across a string of albums for Blue Note Records, beginning with his 1960 debut for the label, Look Out!. …”
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Stanley Turrentine – Hustlin (1964)

“Evidently, Stanley Turrentine had a thing for organists. So much so, that he married one: Shirley Scott. They got hitched in 1960 when they were both 26; in a strange twist of fate, the Pittsburgh-born tenor saxophonist’s debut recording session for Blue Note, which took place the same year, was a sideman gig with an organist. That was the estimable Jimmy Smith, then leading the Hammond B3 charge in the soul jazz movement, on two studio dates that resulted in the classic albums Midnight Special and Back At The Chicken Shack. The following year, Turrentine would enter the recording studio with Shirley to record Dearly Beloved, the first of a number of classic albums the spouses recorded together, including Never Let Me Go, A Chip Off The Old Block and Hustlin’. Because Shirley was contracted to a rival indie jazz label, Prestige, her presence wasn’t officially acknowledged on Dearly Beloved and she used a thinly-disguised pseudonym, Little Miss Cott. Thereafter, however, she appeared under her own name. For the sake of variety, each time Turrentine took Scott into the studio for one of his Blue Note sessions, he used a different configuration of musicians. On Hustlin’, which was cut at Rudy Van Gelder’s famous New Jersey recording facility on Friday, 24 January 1964, Turrentine brought in guitarist Kenny Burrell – then an established hard bop practitioner – drummer Otis Finch and bassist Bob Cranshaw. The latter’s appearance was interesting, as the presence of an organist (who would customarily use foot pedals to play lower frequency tones) would usually preclude the need for a bassist. …”
‘Hustlin’’: Proof That Stanley Turrentine Was One Of Jazz’s Greats
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