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STANLEY TURRENTINE (Live) - Don't Mess With Mr. T
Stanley Turrentine interview for www.jazz-radio.fm Online jazz radio
Stanley Turrentine - In Concert (1990)
1 Don't Mess With Mister T  
2 Two For T  
3 Too Blue  
4 I Could Never Repay Your Love  
5 Pieces Of Dreams  
6 Don't Mess With Mister T (bonus)  
7 Mississippi City Strut (bonus)  
8 Harlem Dawn (bonus)  
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Stanley Turrentine's 'Don t Mess with Mister T' rose to #2 on the 1975 Billboard jazz chart and was another artistic triumph for the sax legend in his year with CTI Records. What first leaps out and grabs the listener's attention is Turrentine's sweet yet muscular sound, which suggests Johnny Hodges more than the classic Swing tenors. Turrentine'sflexible voice can deepen to a resonant honk, soar into one of the most piercingly full-throated cries in jazz, and broaden to a thick, sensuous vibrato on ballads. He 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.

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    Posted At: February 20, 2023
    yahoo/udiscovermusic - Charles Waring writes….The sound of Stanley Turrentine’s tenor saxophone is unmistakable. Firstly, it’s big and warm. Secondly, it’s robust yet athletic. And finally – and most impressive of all, perhaps – it’s imbued with a husky, earthy tone that helps to give it a sanctified soulfulness. Once heard, it’s never forgotten. So how, then, some bemused fans might ask, did Blue Note Reco...

  • Stanley Turrentine Lives Up to His High Standards
    Posted At: August 20, 2012

    AllMusic.com hails Stanley Turrentine's Salt Song with arrangements by the Grammy-winning Eumir Deodato as "another fine, eclectic outing that falls squarely into the signature CTI fusion sound: smooth but not slick, accessible but not simplistic... All in all, Salt Song has dated well, partly because the arrangements don't overemphasize electric piano, but mostly on the strength of Turrentine...

  • Stanley Turrentine expresses his sweet yet muscular sound in 'Don't Mess with Mister T'
    Posted At: May 9, 2012

    Stanley Turrentine's 'Don't Mess with Mister T' rose to #2 on the 1975 Billboard jazz chart and was another artistic triumph for the sax legend in his year with CTI Records. What first leaps out and grabs the listener's attention is Turrentine's sweet yet muscular sound, which suggests Johnny Hodges more than the classic Swing tenors. Turrentine's flexible voice can deepe...

  • CTI releases the 40th Anniversary Remastered Edition of Stanley Turrentine's 'Sugar'
    Posted At: November 14, 2010

    Sugar is a bluesy soul-jazz classic, represented here, on this remastered edition, in both studio and live versions. Butch Cornell's "Sunshine Alley" is solid, and John Coltrane's "Impressions" is given an impressive soul-jazz treatment. ("Gibraltar" was cut from the original track list, but it can be found on another CTI release, "Salt Song".) There's a lot of great jamming here, featur...
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