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Never Let Me Go (Stanley Turrentine album)

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Length
  
45:31

Artist
  
Stanley Turrentine

Producer
  
Alfred Lion

Genre
  
Jazz

Never Let Me Go (1963)
  
Soul Shoutin' (1963)

Release date
  
1963

Label
  
Blue Note Records

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Released
  
Late November/early December 1963

Recorded
  
January 18, 1963 (#6, 8) February 13, 1963 (#1-5, 7) Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Similar
  
Stanley Turrentine albums, Jazz albums

Never Let Me Go is the eighth album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, Major Holley, Ray Barretto and Al Harewood, with Sam Jones and Clarence Johnston replacing Holley, Barretto and Harewood on two tracks.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and calls it "massive and bright, saturated in deep soul and blues... It's a stunner".

Track listing

All compositions by Stanley Turrentine except as indicated.
  1. "Trouble" (Harold Logan, Lloyd Price) - 5:58
  2. "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog, Billie Holiday) - 3:56
  3. "Sara's Dance" - 6:14
  4. "Without a Song" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) - 5:28
  5. "Major's Minor" (Shirley Scott, Turrentine) - 6:21
  6. "Never Let Me Go" (Scott) - 4:55
  7. "You'll Never Get Away from Me" (Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne) - 6:08
  8. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 6:31 Bonus track on CD

Personnel

  • Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone
  • Shirley Scott - organ
  • Major Holley (tracks 1-5 & 7), Sam Jones (tracks 6 & 8) - bass
  • Al Harewood (tracks 1-5 & 7), Clarence Johnston (tracks 6 & 8) - drums
  • Ray Baretto - Congas

    • Production

  • Alfred Lion - producer
  • Reid Miles - design
  • Rudy Van Gelder - engineer
  • Francis Wolff - photography

    • Songs

    1Trouble5:58
    2God Bless the Child3:56
    3Sara's Dance6:15

    References

    Never Let Me Go (Stanley Turrentine album) Wikipedia
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