Stanley Turrentine

Stanley William Turrentine, also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

Turrentine was born in Pittsburgh's Hill District into a musical family. His father, Thomas Turrentine, Sr., was a saxophonist with Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans, his mother played stride piano, and his older brother Tommy played trumpetcite web |url= http://www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/turrentine.html|title= NPR's Jazz Profiles: Stanley Turrentine |accessdate=2007-06-06 ] . He began his prolific career with blues and rhythm and blues bands, and was at first greatly influenced by Illinois Jacquet. In the 1950s he went on to play with the groups of Lowell Fulson, Earl Bostic, and at the turn of the decade, Max Roach.

He married the organist Shirley Scott in 1960 and played frequently with her. In the 1960s he started working with organist Jimmy Smith, and made many soul jazz recordings both with Smith and as a leader. In the 1970s, after his professional split and divorce from Scott, Turrentine turned to jazz fusion. He worked with Milt Jackson, Bob James, Richard Tee, Idris Muhammad, Ron Carter, and Eric Gale, to name a few. He returned to soul jazz in the 1980s and into the 1990s. Turrentine lived in Ft. Washington, Maryland from the early 90's until his death.

Turrentine died of a stroke in New York City September 12, 2000. He is buried in Pittsburgh's Allegheny Cemetery. cite web|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20000913turrentine1.asp|last=Nowlin|first=Rick|date=2000-09-13|title=Obituary: Hill District-born jazz great Turrentine dies|accessdate=2007-06-06]

Turrentine's track "Sister Sanctified" was sampled as the basis of 'My Philosophy' by Boogie Down Productions.

Turrentine used an Otto Link 'Super Tonemaster' metal mouthpiece on his saxophone.

Discography

* 1960 "Stan "The Man" Turrentine" - Bainbridge
* 1960 "Look Out" - Blue Note

* 1960 "Blue Hour" - Blue Note

* 1961 "Comin' Your Way" - Blue Note
* 1961 "Up at Minton's, Vol. 1" - Blue Note
* 1961 "Up at Minton's, Vol. 2" - Blue Note
* 1961 "Up at Minton's" - Blue Note

* 1961 "Dearly Beloved" - Blue Note
* 1961 "Z.T.'s Blues" - Blue Note
* 1961 "Ballads" - Blue Note

* 1962 "That's Where It's At - Blue Note
* 1962 "Jubilee Shout" - Blue Note
* 1963 "Never Let Me Go" - Blue Note
* 1963 "A Chip off the Old Block" - Blue Note
* 1964 "Hustlin"' - Blue Note

* 1964 "Stanley Turrentine" - Blue Note
* 1964 "In Memory Of" - Blue Note

* 1964 "Mr. Natural" - Blue Note
* 1964 "Let It Go" - Impulse!
* 1965 "Joyride" - Blue Note
* 1965 "Tiger Tail" - Mainstream
* 1966 "Rough 'n' Tumble" - Blue Note
* 1966 "Easy Walker" - Blue Note
* 1966 "The Spoiler" - Blue Note
* 1967 "New Time Shuffle" - Blue Note
* 1968 "Ain't No Way" - Blue Note
* 1968 "Common Touch" - Blue Note

* 1968 "Look of Love" - Blue Note
* 1968 "Always Something There" - Blue Note
* 1969 "Another Story" - Blue Note
* 1971 "Sugar" (with Ron Carter, George Benson, Butch Cornell, and Freddie Hubbard) - CTI
* 1971 "The Sugar Man" - CTI
* 1971 "Salt Song" - CTI

* 1972 "Cherry" (with Milt Jackson) - Columbia
* 1973 "Don't Mess with Mister T." - Columbia
* 1974 "Pieces of Dreams" - Original Jazz Classics
* 1975 "In the Pocket" - Fantasy
* 1975 "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" - Fantasy
* 1976 "Everybody Come on Out" - Fantasy

* 1976 "Man with the Sad Face" - Bainbridge
* 1977 "Nightwings" - Fantasy
* 1977 "West Side Highway" - Fantasy
* 1977 "Love's Finally Found Me" - Classic World
* 1978 "What About You!" - Fantasy
* 1979 "Soothsayer" - Elektra
* 1979 "Betcha" - Elektra
* 1980 "Inflation" - Elektra
* 1980 "Use the Stairs" - Fantasy
* 1981 "Tender Togetherness" - Elektra
* 1983 "Home Again" - Elektra
* 1984 "Straight Ahead" - Blue Note
* 1986 "Wonderland" (with Stevie Wonder) - Blue Note
* 1987 "The Baddest Turrentine" - CTI
* 1989 "La Place" - Blue Note
* 1990 "Introducing the 3 Sounds" - Blue Note
* 1991 "The Look of Love" - Huub
* 1992 "More than a Mood" - Music Masters
* 1993 "If I Could" - Music Masters
* 1995 "Three of a Kind Meet Mr. T" - Minor Music
* 1995 "Live at Minton's" - Blue Note
* 1995 "T Time" - Music Masters
* 1995 "Time" - Music Masters
* 1999 "Do You Have Any Sugar?" - Concord Jazz
* 2002 "Deuces Wild" - Prestige Elite
* 2002 "The Blue Note Stanley Turrentine Quintet/Sextet Sessions" - Mosaic

* 2003 "Look Out" - Toshiba

* 2004 "Blue Hour, Vol. 2"
* 2004 "Story of Jazz" - EMI
* "I'm in Love" - Fantasy
* "Love Hangover" - Fantasy
* "Stan the Man" - Time

* 2007 "A Bluish Bag", Tracks 1,2,4 & 5 issued on "New Time Shuffle" in 1979 Tracks3,6 & & originally issued on "Stanley Turrentine" 1975

References

ee also

* Blue Note Records

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19457 Findagrave entry for S.Turrentine]