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Let It Go (Stanley Turrentine album)

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Released
  
February 1967

Release date
  
1966

Label
  
Impulse! Records

Length
  
39:14 original LP

Producer
  
Bob Thiele

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
April 6, 1966 (#1-2, 5, 7) April 15, 1966 (#3-4, 6) September 21, 1964 (#8-11) Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Let It Go (1966)
  
Rough 'n' Tumble (1966)

Artists
  
Stanley Turrentine, Shirley Scott

Similar
  
Shirley Scott albums, Jazz albums

Stanley turrentine let it go


Let It Go is the fourteenth album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Impuse! label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, Ron Carter and Mack Simpkins. The CD release added four bonus tracks, three of which originally released on Scott's Everybody Loves a Lover recorded in 1964 and featuring Bob Cranshaw and Otis Finch in place of Carter and Simpkins.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook awarded the album 4 stars and states "For fans ready to graduate from Stanley Turrentine's many fine Blue Note sets, this excellent mid-'60s date on Impulse should be the perfect option".

Track listing

All compositions by Stanley Turrentine except as indicated.
  1. "Let It Go" - 5:55
  2. "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) - 6:58
  3. "Ciao, Ciao" - 5:54
  4. "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" (Sy Oliver, Trummy Young) - 5:31
  5. "Good Lookin' Out" - 5:23
  6. "Sure As You're Born" (Alan Bergman, Johnny Mandel) - 4:44
  7. "Deep Purple" (Peter DeRose, Mitchell Parish) - 4:49

Bonus tracks on CD reissue:

  1. "Time After Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 9:20
  2. "Sent for You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today)" (Count Basie, Eddie Durham, Jimmy Rushing) - 5:42
  3. "The Lamp Is Low" (DeRose, Parish, Maurice Ravel, Bert Shefter) - 8:07
  4. "The Feeling of Jazz" (Duke Ellington, George T. Simon, Bobby Troup) - 3:56

Personnel

  • Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone
  • Shirley Scott - organ
  • Ron Carter - bass (tracks 1-7)
  • Mack Simpkins - drums (tracks 1-7)
  • Bob Cranshaw - bass (tracks 8-11)
  • Otis Finch - drums (tracks 8-11)

    • Production

  • Bob Thiele - producer
  • Rudy Van Gelder - engineer

    • Songs

    1Let It Go5:55
    2On a Clear Day You Can See Forever6:58
    3Ciao Ciao5:55

    References

    Let It Go (Stanley Turrentine album) Wikipedia
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