Blue Note Stanley Turrentine Quintet/Sextet Sessions (#212)
Strong, Bluesy and Soulful.
"The six Blue Note dates collected on our new Mosaic set are in a class by themselves; they are pure hard bop in the selection and treatment of the material and in instrumentation with Stanley Turrentine sharing the front line with a trumpet player or trombonist equal to him in talent. We're delighted to offer these excellent but overlooked hard bop sessions."
"The six albums collected herein, finds Turrentine working in settings that epitomize Blue Note's norm of two or three horns in the front line, straight-ahead grooves, and a focus on original material and the complementary voices of the featured musicians." - Bob Blumenthal, liner notes
The collection includes:
- "Comin' Your Way" from 1961 with Stanley's brother Tommy on trumpet and the tight, seasoned unit of Horace Parlan, George Tucker and Al Harewood. Given a selection number and listed in catalogs, it was not released at the time.
- "Jubilee Shout" from 1962 with Tommy Turrentine, Sonny Clark, Kenny Burrell, Butch Warren and Al Harewood. The set introduces two previously unissued alternate takes.
- "A Chip Off The Old Block" from 1963, a tribute to the Basie band with Blue Mitchell. Shirley Scott, Earl May and Al Harewood as well as two previously unissued performances.
- "In Memory Of" from 1964 with Blue Mitchell, Curtis Fuller, Herbie Hancock, Bob Cranshaw, Candy Finch and, on several selections, Mickey Roker joining in on congas. On CD for the first time.
- "Mr. Natural" from 1964 with an especially powerful group: Lee Morgan on trumpet, McCoy Tyner on piano, Bob Cranshaw, Elvin Jones on drums and Ray Barretto on congas. On CD for the first time.
- "Another Story" from 1969 with Thad Jones on flugelhorn, Cedar Walton on piano, Buster Williams on bass and Mickey Roker on drums. On CD for the first time.
Promotional video of the collection
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. He would insist that the young Stanley stand in a corner and play one note endlessly. "Did you hear it?" his dad asked him when he was done. "Dad, I'm standing right here in the corner," the boy replied. Years later, he finally understood the lesson - that there are all kinds of sounds you can makedepending on your attack, breath control, bending, and other manipulations.
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. While his style and ideas were contemporary, his big sound allied him more with some of the grand masters on the instrument.
"Stanley Turrentine had a sound. Until his death in 2000, he was the master of a tenor saxophone tone that demanded attention from the first note. A throwback to the brawny tenor stylists of the swing era - Ben Webster, Illinois Jacquet, Don Byas - as well as the funky R & B players of the late '40s and '50s. Turrentine took no prisoners, no matter the tempo." - Steve Futterman, Washington Post
Features:
MOSAIC RECORDS BOOKLET
Author/journalist Bob Blumenthal, whose area of expertise is hard bop in general and Blue Note in particular, takes us into each of the seven sessions on this set and documents Turrentine’s life and activities in the ‘60s. In the age of microsizing, every Mosaic Records Box Set booklet is still 11 x 11 inches to allow our customers to appreciate all the extras we put into printing them (and for easier reading).
SOUND QUALITY
The set was mastered in 24-bit by Ron McMaster at Capitol Mastering using Rudy Van Gelder’s beautiful-sounding original masters.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Twenty-one Francis Wolff photographs from the actual sessions, almost all of which were previously unpublished, adorn the booklet.
Limited Edition: 5000 copies
Track Listing, Personnel & Recording Dates
THE BLUE NOTE STANLEY TURRENTINE QUINTET/SEXTET STUDIO SESSIONS
Disc One:
1. My Girl Is Just Enough Woman For Me (A) 6:42 (D. Fields-A. Hague)
2. Then I'll Be Tired Of You (A) 6:07 (E. Y. Harburg-A. Schwartz)
3. Fine Li'l Lass (A) 6:12 (Leon Mitchell)
4. Thomasville (A) 6:33 (Tommy Turrentine)
5. Someone To Watch Over Me (A) 7:41 (G. Gershwin-I. Gershwin)
6. Stolen Sweets (A) 6:09 (Wild Bill Davis)
7. Just In Time 6:30 (Styne-Comden-Green)
8. Fine Li'l Lass (alternate take) (A) 5:48 (Leon Mitchell)
Disc Two:
1. Jubilee Shout (B) 10:39 (Stanley Turrentine)
2. My Ship (B) 5:55 (K. Weill-I. Gershwin)
3. You Said It (B) 5:32 (Tommy Turrentine)
4. Brother Tom (B) 7:39 (Stanley Turrentine)
5. Cotton Walk (B) 10:53 (Stanley Turrentine)
6. Little Girl Blue (B) 6:25 (R. Rodgers-L. Hart)
7. My Ship (alternate take) (B) 5:46 (K. Weill-I. Gershwin)
8. Brother Tom (alternate take) (B) 6:50 (Stanley Turrentine)
Disc Three:
1. One O'Clock Jump (first version) (C) 8:14 (Count Basie)
2. Cherry Point (first version) (C) 7:06 (Neal Hefti)
3. One O'Clock Jump (D) 7:45 (Count Basie)
4. Midnight Blue (D) 9:49 (Neal Hefti)
5. Blues In Hoss' Flat (D) 6:38 (C. Basie-F. Foster)
6. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (D) 6:13 (T. Wolf-F. Landesman)
7. Cherry Point (D) 5:56 (Neal Hefti)
Disc Four:
1. Fried Pies (E) 10:25 (Wes Montgomery)
2. In Memory Of (E) 6:58 (Randy Weston)
3. Niger Mambo (E) 3:21 (Bobby Benson)
4. Make Someone Happy (E) 6:20 (Styne-Comden-Green)
5. Jodie's Cha Cha (E) 6:14 (Bill Lee)
6. Sunday In New York (E) 6:44 (P. Nero-C. Coates)
7. Wahoo (aka Stanley's Blues) (F) 8:59 (Duke Pearson)
8. Shirley (F) 10:45 (Stanley Turrentine)
Disc Five:
1. Tacos (F) 6:29 (Lee Morgan)
2. My Girl Is Just Enough Woman For Me (F) 6:31 (D. Fields-A. Hague)
3. Can't Buy Me Love (F) 6:45 (J. Lennon-P. McCartney)
4. Get It (G) 7:49 (Stanley Turrentine)
5. The Way You Look Tonight (G) 9:13 (D. Fields-J. Kern)
6. Stella By Starlight (G) 5:33 (V. Young-N. Washington)
7. Quittin' Time (G) 6:50 (Thad Jones)
8. Six And Four (G) 11:22 (Oliver Nelson)
DISCOGRAPHY
COMIN' YOUR WAY
(A) Tommy Turrentine (tp), Stanley Turrentine (ts), Horace Parlan (p), George Tucker (b), Al Harewood (d).
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, January 20,1961
tk.1 Then I'll Be Tired Of You BN-LA883-2
tk.9 My Girl Is Just Enough Woman For Me -
tk.15 Stolen Sweets -
tk.21 Fine Li'l Lass(alt.)
tk.22 Fine Li'l Lass BN-LA883-2
tk.26 Thomasville -
tk.41 Just In Time
tk.43 Someone To Watch Over Me BN-LA883-2
All titles,except tk.21 and tk.41,were first scheduled on BLP4065,which was not released,and finally issued on BLJ 84065 in 1987.
All titles and takes shown issued on CD B2-84065.
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JUBILEE SHOUT
(B) Tommy Turrentine (tp), Stanley Turrentine (ts), Sonny Clark (p), Kenny Burrell (g), Butch Warren (b), Al Harewood (d).
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, October 18,1962
tk.9 You Said It BN-LA883-2
tk.14 Cotton Walk -
tk.19 Little Girl Blue-1
tk.21 Brother Tom BN-LA883-2
tk.24 Brother Tom (alt) previously unissued
tk.25 My Ship (alt) -
tk.26 My Ship BN-LA883-2
tk.29 Jubilee Shout -
-1:erroneously listed as "You Better Go Now" on the 1985 issue of BST 84122.
All titles, except tk.19, tk.24 and tk.25 , were prepared for release as 84122 in 1963 but not issued.
All titles issued on BST 84122,CD B2-84122.
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A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK
(C) Blue Mitchell (tp), Tom McIntosh (tb), Stanley Turrentine (ts), Charles Davis (bari), Shirley Scott(org), Earl May(b), Ben Dixon (d).
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, October 14,1963
tk.9 Cherry Point previously unissued
tk.10 One O'Clock Jump -
Midnight Blue rejected
(D) Blue Mitchell(tp), Stanley Turrentine (ts), Shirley Scott (org), Earl May (b), Al Harewood (d). Englewood Cliffs, NJ, October 21,1963
tk.9 Cherry Point
tk.17 Blues In Hoss' Flat
tk.20 Midnight Blue
tk.25 One O'Clock Jump
tk.30 Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
All titles issued on BST 84150.
The only CD issue is Japanese Blue Note TOCJ-4150.
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IN MEMORY OF
(E) Blue Mitchell (tp), Curtis Fuller (tb), Stanley Turrentine (ts), Herbie Hancock (p), Bob Cranshaw (b), Otis Candy Finch (d).
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, June 3,1964
1361 (tk.2) Fried Pies-1,2
1362 (tk.5) In Memory Of-1,2
1363 (tk.13) Sunday In New York
1365 (tk.30) Make Someone Happy-2
1364 (tk.35) Jodie's Cha Cha
1366 (tk.38) Niger Mambo-1
-1 Mickey Roker (conga, maracas) added.
-2 These titles were first scheduled on BST 84234,which were never released.
All titles issued on BN LT-1037. ________________________________________________________________________________
MR. NATURAL
(F) Lee Morgan (tp), Stanley Turrentine (ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Bob Cranshaw (b), Elvin Jones (d), Ray Barretto (conga).
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, September 4, 1964
1422 (tk.1) Shirley -2
1423 (tk.11) Wahoo (aka Stanley's Blues) -1
1424 (tk.14) Tacos -2
1425 (tk.22) Can't Buy Me Love (omit Barretto)
1426 (tk.23) My Girl Is Just Enough Woman For Me (omit Morgan & Barretto)
-1 issued as Stanley's Blues on LT-1075
-2 These titles were first scheduled on BST 84234,which were never released.
All titles issued on LT-1075.
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ANOTHER STORY
(G) Thad Jones (flh), Stanley Turrentine (ts), Cedar Walton (p), Buster Williams (b), Mickey Roker(d).
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, March 3,1969
3743 (tk.2) The Way You Look Tonight
3744 (tk.11) Quittin' Time
3745 (tk.22) Stella By Starlight (omit Jones)
3746 (tk.28) Six And Four
3747 (tk.31) Get It
All titles issued on BST 84336.
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Album index:
LP issues
BLJ 84065 Comin' Your Way (issued in 1987)
BN-LA 883-2 Jubilee Shouts (2-LP set, issued in 1978)
BST 84122 Jubilee Shout (issued in 1986)
BST 84150 A Chip Off The Old Block (issued in 1964)
LT-1037 In Memory Of (issued in 1980)
LT-1075 Mr. Natural (issued in 1980)
BST 84336 Another Story (issued in 1970)
CD issues
B2-84065 Comin' Your Way (issued in 1987)
B2-84122 Jubilee Shout (issued in 1986)
TOCJ-4150 A Chip Off The Old Block (Japan only - issued in 1994)
Original sessions produced by Alfred Lion (A-F) and Duke Pearson (G)
Produced for release by Michael Cuscuna
Recording engineer: Rudy Van Gelder
Mastered using 24-bit analog-to-digital resolution by Ron McMaster.
Masters appear courtesy of Blue Note Records, a division of Capitol Records, Inc.
This compilation (p) 2002 EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets.
Product of EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets, 1750 Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028.
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