Search results for "Stanley Turrentine"

Stanley Turrentine: Impressions (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 31, 09

If you had compiled a list of tunes you might expect Stanley Turrentine to record, John Coltrane's "Impressions" woul...

Stanley Turrentine: Someone to Watch Over Me (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

Nowhere is nonpareil audio engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s renowned "Blue Note sound" more distinctive than on ballads. Be...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS

    Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...

Gene Harris (featuring Stanley Turrentine): The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 29, 09

Julia Ward Howe wrote the most spirited and rousing of our "national" anthems. Her Civil War foot-lifter, "The Battle...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MUSICAL AMERICANA

         Jazz Americana, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Shortly ...

Stanley Turrentine: Buster Brown (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 30, 08

“Buster Brown” is one of the more polished and unforced-sounding boogaloos in the rare groove catalog, which is not a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC BLUE NOTE GROOVES

Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson’s 1970 Blue Note recording Everything I Play Is Funky opens with a corny but telling d...

Horace Parlan: Wadin' (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

“Wadin’” resembles many of the instrumental blues performances on the Blue Note recordings of its day. Taken at a me...

Horace Silver: Serenade to a Soul Sister (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 16, 09

I have to be honest, there's not a single Horace Silver song that I don't like. So now that my biases are out front, ...

Jimmy Smith: Back at the Chicken Shack (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Jimmy Smith was not the first to exploit the potential of the Hammond organ’s down-home, earthy sound. But Smith beca...

Kenny Burrell: Chitlins Con Carne (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

Strictly speaking (and we here at Jazz.com are semantic sticklers), "Chitlins Con Carne" is double-talk. Since chitli...

Kenny Burrell: Mule (Rating: 71/100) posted in Music December 17, 08

"Mule" moves as slowly as its namesake. At the slowest pace possible, the group allows so much space to permeate the ...

CTI All-Stars: Red Clay (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 16, 09

While too much of CTI's output is proto-Smooth Jazz, the listenable portion of the discography is chockfull of bluesy...

Gene Harris: Uptown Sop (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

To soul-food connoisseurs such as your humble reviewer, sop refers not to bribe, fool or Standard Operating Procedure...

Jimmy McGriff: Back on the Track (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 29, 08

Though he considers himself to be first and foremost a blues musician, Jimmy McGriff straddles the demarcating lines ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC BLUE NOTE GROOVES

Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson’s 1970 Blue Note recording Everything I Play Is Funky opens with a corny but telling d...

Freddie Hubbard: Delphia (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 30, 08

As a cool, multipart travelogue, "Delphia"'s dual sections contrast in mood yet remain undisguised by nonseismic modu...

Jimmy Smith: Midnight Special (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

“Midnight Special” may be the tastiest recording Jimmy Smith ever made. Recorded at a session that produced both the ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS

For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...

Max Roach: Effi (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music July 06, 09

Roach's saxophone-trumpet front lines certainly rivaled those of Art Blakey over several decades. Max's pairings inc...

Stanley Turrentine: Buster Brown posted in January 29, 08

“Buster Brown” is one of the more polished and unforced sounding boogaloos in the rare groove catalog, which is not a...

Turrentine, Stanley posted in Encyclopedia October 19, 08

Stanley Turrentine, it has been said, could make the telephone book sound soulful. His elegant brawn in the lower reg...

Stryker, Dave posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Stryker, Dave, guitarist; b. Omaha, NE, 30 March 1957. His parents are Dr. Robert Stryker and Mary Cosand. Stryker...

Jazz is Worth a Million Words posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 09, 09

Our collection of track reviews on jazz.com is now approaching the one million word mark. It gives me a twinge of ca...

Burrell, Kenny (Kenneth Earl) posted in Encyclopedia February 19, 09

Guitarist Kenny Burrell's blues-based tone is often cool and characteristically swinging. With saxophonist Stanley T...

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