Back in the day i qas very fortunate to see him Hubert Laws..Tony Williams..Herbie Hancock..and Ron Carter at the Oakland Coloseum..what a night..and why such a venue..great show for us hippies lol May he rest in peace Stanley Turrentine 🙏
Stanley Turrentine, one of the most distinctive saxophone sounds in the history of jazz. He did a lot of recording with Jimmy Smith in the sixties and he is one of the best tenor saxophonist in the history of jazz. In other words, the cat could play!!!
When I lived in Pittsburgh, I'd go for my walks through Allegheny Cemetery. I'd always stop and sit by his grave and play one of his songs on my phone. :-)
Stanley put it all together so well. Soul, grit, and chops with flair & style. I had a chance to sit in The Regatta Bar in Cambridge 10-15 years ago or so and see him perform unclose. Stripped down quartet, Amazing. He was a great guys too hung out and we talked music & sax for a while after the show. Will always remember hang in with a hero.
Stanley was one of the greatest and most soulful tenor players of all time and he could burn up some bebop any time - a true master and legend. He is very much missed.
We all miss easy-going, barefoot Hiram Bullock on his dilapidated, beaten-up guitar. And that bass line!! it could gut a fish. One of the most inspired/intense LIVE solos of Turrentine. This is serious music. As measured and deliberate as the studio version is, this live version is irrepressible, and even supersedes the former.
Zeit Geist: Agreed. This is serious music. As a blues harmonica player, I was powerfully inspired by Mr. T's approach. He passes the three-second test: hear three seconds of THIS sax playing on the radio and you know who it is. That's my gold standard for harmonica players. My duo, the Blues Doctors out of Oxford, Mississippi, covers the song. (It's here on TH-cam: blues doctors sugar.) But the shining standard is here.
Adam Gussow "The-Three-Second test" I love that.! I'd like to use that in future posts if you don't mind. And I will definitely check out your suggestion. Keep playing, and the best to you.
Saw Stanley T. play Sugar at a concert in the Felt Forum NYC in 1972 with Freddy Hubbard,George Benson,Jack de Johnette etc and it brought the house down. This gig was to launch the CTI label and the line-up was incredible.The Blue Note records I think are ones that capture his sound best.
my favourite tenor player by absolute yards. not too many notes, and all in the right place. magnificent melodic licks like noone else can produce. i love the way he uses the harmonics without overdoing it. if there is one failing it's that you can often hear the same riffs in different tunes he plays but i like the style so much he could play the same solo over and over again and it wouldn't matter to me. go stanley you inspire me.
Mr Turrentine was one of my heroes when I was really young, bought his very first album on Blue Note. Has not lost anything here at all. Love the start of his solo with that amazing honk. Thank you for putting this on!
stanley sounds better live than on his recordings ..his sound is amazingly great and different than all others .. truly distinctive ,, great intonation ,,, love it , bobby g
Of course Stanley is great but, did you hear that sweet walking bass line my boy Tom Barney was laying' down??? ( a very young Tom at that time), you gotta love it!
"The Baddest Turrentine" - playing Sugar, Salt Song, Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man (awesome) + one....a fantastic album. I never, never, never tire listening to it. Then I went out and bought every Turrentine vinyl I could find, and was mostly disappointed. He did a lot of work to pay the bills with his heart elsewhere, I think. But at his baddest, he is badder than a lot of bad cats.
Nice to see this video. I have this album (never liked that cover!) - favourite track is 'Walk On By'. Stan looks great on this video. Sound is good too - even on my one inchers.
@sigmundgroid Thanks for the clarification...nice bass nonetheless... I've never seen Ron Carter live although I have enjoyed his playing for many years. I was privilaged to see Turrentine in 1974 in San Francisco, which really got me going on him...Thanks for the post...
Back in 77 I was playing with Ritchie Groovin Holmes in Hartford Ct and in walks Turrentine Earlier in the week we had Houston Pearson Drop in to play What a Tremendous opportunity and for an up and coming young Drummer I was in heaven. He was a Tremendous person Great sense of humor and he sat at our table and I listen and learned. Today you don't see that kind of comradely it's a different world now. Sadly to say.
yeah.... he played that note and paused and basked in the Moment Like a Walk off Homer or a Game Winning Jumper... or a Singer Delivering a Great Lyric - a Lawyer making a Case Winning Argument.... I rest my case Your Honor! BAM!
Its after the the minor triad upwards, a start of his solo probably repeated hundreds of times he played this piece. Then the real work begins of improvising something new on the changes.
Got damn that bass is bad. That long electric-pickup drawl (like Carter on the original Sugar version) and such taste. Hiram has his work cut out for him here, 'cause it was George Benson on the album!
Pittsburghs own!! I had the HONOUR and priv to meet and hang out with this guy. BRILLIANT musician but an even MORe BRILLIANT person. Kind and warm. Miss this guy.
Back in the day i qas very fortunate to see him Hubert Laws..Tony Williams..Herbie Hancock..and Ron Carter at the Oakland Coloseum..what a night..and why such a venue..great show for us hippies lol
May he rest in peace Stanley Turrentine 🙏
Stanley Turrentine, one of the most distinctive saxophone sounds in the history of jazz. He did a lot of recording with Jimmy Smith in the sixties and he is one of the best tenor saxophonist in the history of jazz. In other words, the cat could play!!!
You’re absolutely right.
Wonderful.
One of the best saxophone artist of all time
When I lived in Pittsburgh, I'd go for my walks through Allegheny Cemetery. I'd always stop and sit by his grave and play one of his songs on my phone. :-)
Stanley put it all together so well. Soul, grit, and chops with flair & style.
I had a chance to sit in The Regatta Bar in Cambridge 10-15 years ago or so and see him perform unclose. Stripped down quartet, Amazing. He was a great guys too hung out and we talked music & sax for a while after the show. Will always remember hang in with a hero.
Stanley was one of the greatest and most soulful tenor players of all time and he could burn up some bebop any time - a true master and legend. He is very much missed.
Night Music - Probably the best music television show ever !
For Sure!!!!
Playing this song in Jazz Band right now.. has to be the best out of all the songs we have
11 years later.. hope you still are involved in jazz !!
Love This💕🔥🔥
O heck yeah. One of the greatest tenor sax players who ever lived!!
Good...!!! Awesome...!!! Great ...!!!!
damn, that is some ********* JAZZ. Bass player is outta sight.
We all miss easy-going, barefoot Hiram Bullock on his dilapidated, beaten-up guitar. And that bass line!! it could gut a fish. One of the most inspired/intense LIVE solos of Turrentine. This is serious music. As measured and deliberate as the studio version is, this live version is irrepressible, and even supersedes the former.
Zeit Geist: Agreed. This is serious music. As a blues harmonica player, I was powerfully inspired by Mr. T's approach. He passes the three-second test: hear three seconds of THIS sax playing on the radio and you know who it is. That's my gold standard for harmonica players. My duo, the Blues Doctors out of Oxford, Mississippi, covers the song. (It's here on TH-cam: blues doctors sugar.) But the shining standard is here.
Adam Gussow
"The-Three-Second test" I love that.! I'd like to use that in future posts if you don't mind. And I will definitely check out your suggestion.
Keep playing, and the best to you.
Saw Stanley T. play Sugar at a concert in the Felt Forum NYC in 1972 with Freddy Hubbard,George Benson,Jack de Johnette etc and it brought the house down. This gig was to launch the CTI label and the line-up was incredible.The Blue Note records I think are ones that capture his sound best.
Wow😊😮😊
There will never be another turrentine.
That’s what they said about WNC too…..& they were right!
my favourite tenor player by absolute yards. not too many notes, and all in the right place. magnificent melodic licks like noone else can produce. i love the way he uses the harmonics without overdoing it. if there is one failing it's that you can often hear the same riffs in different tunes he plays but i like the style so much he could play the same solo over and over again and it wouldn't matter to me. go stanley you inspire me.
Excelente tema! Mi preferido…
Legend
Loved it.... Into his playing since the early 70s. Remember an old vinal of back then.... The Man With The Sad Face.
New Zealand Fan
Formidable!!!
Mr. Stanley Turrentine is cold. He looks good.
Man.... thats a classic tune.
This was a classic weekly show
+Terry Diggs Classic & classy
Mr Turrentine was one of my heroes when I was really young, bought his very first album on Blue Note. Has not lost anything here at all. Love the start of his solo with that amazing honk. Thank you for putting this on!
stanley sounds better live than on his recordings ..his sound is amazingly great and different than all others .. truly distinctive ,, great intonation ,,,
love it ,
bobby g
i love his sound
One great player...
I remember watching these shows when they aired. Definitely hear how Brecker was influenced.
Stanley and Grover... pretty much all the sax yo ever need to hear :)
Of course Stanley is great but, did you hear that sweet walking bass line my boy Tom Barney was laying' down??? ( a very young Tom at that time), you gotta love it!
+LarreeTheExhortationist ; Oh!, Yeah, and right up front where it belongs.
All bassists are the same...
@@paulgrass4855 Some have the X-factor. They make everyone else in the band sound better than they actually are.
@@paulgrass4855Couldn’t be wronger if you tried
@@paulgrass4855explain?😊
Miss you Sir Turrentine! You made history!
He is such a bad m.f. … the look in the cam at the beginning… he is like the Tyson of tenor…
BRAVO !
It's hard to believe that there are some thumbs down for this great performance
Don't worry about negativity, it only drags you down with it.
Very unique sound. Sounds like a baby crying.
Love it
Stanley was always one of my favs. When he was playing on the radio you knew it was him (blind test). What a sound. Power and yet can nail bebop.
"The Baddest Turrentine" - playing Sugar, Salt Song, Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man (awesome) + one....a fantastic album. I never, never, never tire listening to it. Then I went out and bought every Turrentine vinyl I could find, and was mostly disappointed. He did a lot of work to pay the bills with his heart elsewhere, I think. But at his baddest, he is badder than a lot of bad cats.
👌 Nice and smoot.
There has never been so much personality in a sound than Turrentine!!
Dex, cannonball, and Mobley are probably up there too.
My jam. Sugar. Stanley turrentine. Back in the day. I have the album tooo.
show! amo
No tricks here...the real stuff!
Yeah, you tell 'em Stanley!
Nice to see this video. I have this album (never liked that cover!) - favourite track is 'Walk On By'. Stan looks great on this video. Sound is good too - even on my one inchers.
Yesssss. One of the best saxophonist ever. B
I went to grammar school with this guy's daughter! Adam Gussow does a rendition of this tune on his 'Kick & Stomp' CD.
fun to hear stanley play another solo on this, I can sing the one on the album I have
And that original also featured GB on AX…..who played HAMMOND ELECTRIC ORGAN ON THAT 1970 GEM?
You betta GIT dat mess, Stanley!! Play it!
i love the look stanley gives the camera at 1:17, like he said have summathat
14 years after “SUGAR” got released … WJZZ DETROIT PLAYED IT as did WLIB NYC … THE FOUNDING CHART OF SMOOTH JAZZ.
@sigmundgroid Thanks for the clarification...nice bass nonetheless...
I've never seen Ron Carter live although I have enjoyed his playing for many years. I was privilaged to see Turrentine in 1974 in San Francisco, which really got me going on him...Thanks for the post...
QUICK! CHORD CHANGES! I NEEED!
@rodmanian Unmistakably it is Ron Carter...one of the truly great Bassists who did session work for CTI as well as many other things....
Back in 77 I was playing with Ritchie Groovin Holmes in Hartford Ct and in walks Turrentine Earlier in the week we had Houston Pearson Drop in to play What a Tremendous opportunity and for an up and coming young Drummer I was in heaven. He was a Tremendous person Great sense of humor and he sat at our table and I listen and learned. Today you don't see that kind of comradely it's a different world now. Sadly to say.
Beautiful.
I need a shot of sugar anytime ! Beautiful
that´s what I like ! keep going
Jen ai le souffle coupé....c'est magnifique
Omar Hakim, too.
Pause at 1:18
yeah.... he played that note and paused and basked in the Moment Like a Walk off Homer or a Game Winning Jumper... or a Singer Delivering a Great Lyric - a Lawyer making a Case Winning Argument.... I rest my case Your Honor! BAM!
Its after the the minor triad upwards, a start of his solo probably repeated hundreds of times he played this piece. Then the real work begins of improvising something new on the changes.
man, you can almost see the picture of New York that Stanley is tryin to paint.
As sweet as sugar... Stan the Man. OMG!!!!!
❤
A bit more up-tempo than on the CTI recording (and no Freddy Hubbard and George Benson, regrettably), but a solid, soulful performance.
FIRE!!!
Selmer Mark Vl and Otto link mouthpiece.
tenor powerhouse
There's a vocal version of this song, sung by a female artist. I think it's Brenda Lee, but I'm not sure. If anyone knows for sure, get back at me.
perfectionist
So fine.
How do you make a tenor sound like a alto? Man!!
Good
Fellow had the sass of a dozen men.
ain't he?
Swingin'
Oh baby get it now stanley
This was the jam
Quem é o mlq do baixo?
who is the bass player?
Late to the party here, but it’s Tom Barney on bass.
Does sanborn always play there? He played there (Kim?) also with sonny rollins...
Who´s in that gig?
How to speak #saxophonese : Sugar |Stanley Turrentine
#JazzIdiom
Yes!!! Thank you!!! 1Nation4Life
That's Tom Barney on bass! His father was Bob Cranshaw.
Selemer serise Ⅱ Black Lucker
Dexter Gordon is my man!
+Rolf Westerberg The Gentle Giant, of course!!
This is Stanley Turrentine
hahahaha
Omar Hakeme for got his wig. If you're going to wear a wig you may as well wear one with dread locks.
I didnt know Steve Urkel played bass! Lol
the video is slightly out of sync
Who is playing guitar .? Young George Benson ?
Dumb Flavor....There's only 1 Mr. T !
So many licks to transcribe. Jesus.
OK Signumdgroid my bad.
third, it's forgot...not for got...
Got damn that bass is bad. That long electric-pickup drawl (like Carter on the original Sugar version) and such taste. Hiram has his work cut out for him here, 'cause it was George Benson on the album!
Yea that just wasn't funny....AND you spelled his name wrong. smh
Pittsburghs own!! I had the HONOUR and priv to meet and hang out with this guy. BRILLIANT musician but an even MORe BRILLIANT person. Kind and warm. Miss this guy.