Stanley Kuberik

Recorded on October 18, 1962.
Featuring Turrentine with Sonny Clark on piano and Kenny Burrell on guitar. Also including Tommy Turrentine (tp), Butch Warren (b), and Al Harewood (d). Recorded at Englewood Cliffs, NJ, by Rudy Van Gelder. Here is classic funky soul-jazz groove, three up-tempo, three slow. Sonny Clark (p) soars, Turrentine red-hot.

Comin' Your Way is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label. With Tommy Turrentine (trumpet), Horace Parlan (piano) George Tucker (bass), and Al Harewood (drums). Recorded at Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Small group. 1995 reissue of a sumptuous '60s Soul Jazz date. Horace Parlan at his bluesy best.

This early 1980s set of funk-tinged instrumentals features Stanley Turrentine performing a set of easy-listening jazz with orchestral accompaniment. Though perhaps not the best example of the saxophonist's work, it does contain several nice set pieces, notably the big band arrangement of "Ghana," and the atmospheric after-hours ballad "Don't Misunderstand."

Paul Stanley's 1978 solo album was the most Kiss-like of the four, sounding more like an official band release rather than a solo outing…

While the global pandemic has been a challenging time in-particular for artists around the world, it has afforded new opportunities for creativity. If art imitates life, then our Feature Album this week on ABC Jazz certainly lives up to that age-old philosophy. Stuck at home during lockdowns in the UK, saxophonist Trish Clowes turned her home into both a studio and a performance space. This afforded her the opportunity to collaborate with her band 'My Iris', giving her the space to flesh out a series of new tunes that were workshopped over a series of live streams and online jams. The result? Her new album A View With A Room. It's an intrepid recording, cut with bandmates Ross Stanley on keys, guitarist Chris Montague and drummer James Maddren.

Much of the music here comes from such sessions, which have often been dismissed for their lack of jazz content. But with brilliant arrangements from the likes of Duke Pearson and Hank Jones, they fit well alongside the smaller group sides as the sheer depth and beauty of Stanley's tenor always shines through. The chart toppers that are taken on here are often very high on repetitive phrases but short on melodic variation leaving a jazz soloist very exposed, and leaving decent interpretation open only to the most skilled of artists. Stanley has all the quality required as he makes every one of these tunes his own, with his laid back but ultimately assertive playing dominating tunes from many rock music's first division.

Stanley Turrentine was fresh from his brilliant playing on Hammond B-3 maestro Jimmy Smith's Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack sessions when he officially signed with Blue Note Records in 1960, but although the hard bop sax/organ template (which later came to be called soul-jazz) seemed to fit Turrentine like a glove, his first sessions for the label found him working with a more standard jazz format highlighted by a piano-led rhythm section. On Dearly Beloved, though, paired with his eventual wife, Shirley Scott, on the B-3 and the alert and sensitive drumming of Roy Brooks, Turrentine found the perfect pocket for his big, soulful, and slightly raw and bluesy sax tone, and for those only familiar with his later pop crossover recordings with CTI Records, it's a pretty revelatory set…

A legend of the tenor saxophone, Stanley Turrentine was renowned for his distinctively thick, rippling tone, an earthy grounding in the blues, and his ability to work a groove with soul and imagination. Turrentine recorded in a wide variety of settings, but was best-known for his Blue Note soul-jazz jams of the '60s, and also underwent a popular fusion makeover in the early '70s. Born in Pittsburgh on April 5, 1934, Turrentine began his career playing with various blues and R&B bands, with a strong influence from Illinois Jacquet. He played in Lowell Fulson's band with Ray Charles from 1950-1951, and in 1953, he replaced John Coltrane in Earl Bostic's early R&B/jazz band. After a mid-'50s stint in the military, Turrentine joined Max Roach's band and subsequently met organist Shirley Scott, whom he married in 1960 and would record with frequently…