Stanley Turrentine – Sugar, 1978 CTI Records – LAX 3177 Japan Vinyl

Side One

Sugar
Sunshine Alley

Side Two

Impressions

AMG  Review

Turrentine is deep inside his horn, ringing out in legato with everything he has — and it is considerable. Ron Carter’s bass playing flows through the modal interludes, creating a basis for some beautifully intervallic invention by Benson and Smith by building a series of harmonic bridges through the mode to solos. It’s hard to believe this is Turrentine, yet it could be no one else. If jazz fans are interested in Turrentine beyond the Blue Note period — and they should be — this is a heck of a place to listen for satisfaction.

ORIGIN : Japan
LABEL : CTI Records
CONDITION OF COVER & INSERT : EX+
CONDITION OF RECORD : EX+

RECORD GRADING DEFINITIONS

MINT: Never opened, still in original shrink wrap.

NM: Opened, appears unplayed.

EX: A few very light surface hair-line marks with no major deterioration to the sound quality.

VG: A few light scratches and/or scuffs creating audible background noise. There is no skipping or jumping on this record unless indicated in the condition description.

A plus or minus (+ or -) denotes slightly better or slightly less than a grade, eg. VG+.

Each record has been cleaned and played to ensure the accuracy of the following grading