Common Touch

Common Touch
Common Touch
Studio album by Stanley Turrentine featuring Shirley Scott
Released 1968
Recorded August 30, 1968
Genre Jazz
Length 39:15
Label Blue Note
Stanley Turrentine chronology
The Look of Love
(1968)		 Common Touch
(1968)		 Always Something There
(1968)
Shirley Scott chronology
Girl Talk
(1967)		 Common Touch
(1968)		 Soul Song
(1968)

Common Touch is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine featuring Shirley Scott recorded for the Blue Note label in 1968 and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, Jimmy Ponder, Bob Cranshaw and Leo Morris.[1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[2]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow, awarded the album 3 stars and states "Although not essential (no one seems to sweat much and none of the tempos are above a slow-medium pace), this lazy date has its pleasurable moments".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Stanley Turrentine except as indicated
  1. "Buster Brown" - 5:25
  2. "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan) - 5:55
  3. "Lonely Avenue" (Doc Pomus) - 8:07
  4. "Boogaloo" (Shirley Scott) - 6:25
  5. "Common Touch" - 6:21
  6. "Living Through It All" - 7:17
  7. "Ain't No Way" (Aretha Franklin, Carolyn Franklin) - 11:03 Bonus track on CD
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on May 10, 1968 (track 7), and August 30, 1968 (tracks 1-6).

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Stanley Turrentine discography accessed January 8, 2010.
  2. ^ Allmusic Review accessed January 10, 2010.
  3. ^ Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed January 7, 2010.

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