Sugar (Stanley Turrentine album)

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Released November 22, 1970 Sugar(1971) The Sugar Man(1971) Release date 1971 Label CTI Records		Length 44:40 original LP Artist Stanley Turrentine Producer Creed Taylor Genres Jazz, Soul jazz, Hard bop

Recorded November 1970 (#1-4)Van Gelder Studio, Englewood CliffsJuly 18, 1971 (#5)Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles Similar Stanley Turrentine albums, Soul jazz albums, Other albums

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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. The CD rerelease added a live version of the title track recorded at the Hollywood Palladium in 1971.

Sugar stanley turrentine ft george benson ron carter freddie hubbard

Reception

The album is one of Turrentines 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". 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".