Stanley Turrentine - The Baddest Turrentine (1974)

A 4-track "best of compilation" from Stanley Turrentine’s hit years at CTI! If you know the man's tone, you know that he found a perfect home at CTI - where arrangements by the likes of Bob James or Eumir Deodato provided Stanley with a perfect foil for his warm exploratory blowing. The set list features Stan's great funky reading of Marvin Gaye's "Don’t Mess With Mr T", plus his classic reading of "Sugar" and the tracks "Speedball" and "Salt Song".

CTI Records, CTI 6048 S1, 1974

Recorded November, 1970 (#A1); July 1971 (#A2); May 1972 (#B1)

& June, 1973 (#B2) At Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Personnel:

Stanley Turrentine, Randy Brecker, Joe Farrell, Pepper Adams, Bob James, Eric Gale, Ron Carter, Idris Muhammad, Milt Jackson, Cornell Dupree, Billy Cobham, Eumir Deodato, Freddie Hubbard, Lonnie Smith, George Benson ...

Tracks:

A1. Sugar {Stanley Turrentine} (10:03)

Released on: Sugar [CTI 6005]

A2. Salt Song {Milton Nascimento} (7:12)

Released on: Salt Song [CTI 6010]

B1. Speedball {Lee Morgan} (6:37)

Released on: Cherry [CTI 6017]

B2. Don't Mess With Mister T. {Marvin Gaye} (9:49)

Released on: Don't Mess With Mister T. [CTI 6030]

Credits:

Producer - Creed Taylor

Recording Engineer - Rudy van Gelder

Artwork - Bob Ciano

Photography - Alen MacWeeney