Sugar (Stanley Turrentine album)

Sugar is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, his first recorded for the CTI Records label following his long association with Blue Note, featuring performances by Turrentine with Freddie Hubbard, George Benson, Ron Carter, and Billy Kaye with Lonnie Liston Smith added on the title track and Butch Cornell and Richard "Pablo" Landrum on the other two tracks on the original release.[2] The CD rerelease added a live version of the title track recorded at the Hollywood Palladium in 1971.

Sugar
Studio album by
Stanley Turrentine
ReleasedNovember 22, 1970[1]
RecordedNovember 1970 (#1-4)
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
July 18, 1971 (#5)
Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles
GenreJazz, Soul jazz, Hard bop
Length44:40 original LP
LabelCTI
CTI 6005
ProducerCreed Taylor
Stanley Turrentine chronology
Another Story
(1969)		 Sugar
(1970)		 The Sugar Man
(1971)

Reception

The album is one of Turrentine's best received and was greeted with universal acclaim on release and on subsequent reissues. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars and states "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".[3] The All About Jazz review by David Rickert states "Seldom does a group of musicians click on all levels and rise into the stratosphere, but this is one such record, a relic from a time when jazz was going through growing pains but still spawning some interesting projects. Turrentine was one of the lucky few who made his crowning achievement during this time".[4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[5]

Track listing
All compositions by Stanley Turrentine except as indicated.
  1. "Sugar" - 10:03
  2. "Sunshine Alley" (Butch Cornell) - 10:48
  3. "Impressions" (John Coltrane) - 14:14
  4. "Gibraltar" (Freddie Hubbard) - 9:35 (recorded at original session - not released until CD issue)
  5. "Sugar" [Live] - 14:29 Bonus track on the 2001 and 2010 CD releases
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, November 1970 except track 5 recorded live at the Southgate Palace in Los Angeles on July 19, 1971.

Personnel

Track 5 Personnel

References
  1. CTI disco
  2. Stanley Turrentine discography accessed January 15, 2010.
  3. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed January 15, 2010.
  4. Rickert, D. Sugar review, All About Jazz, May 6, 2002
  5. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 194. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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