Stanley Turrentine

[hea...@in-tch.com]

Hi,
I just read a rumor in rec.music.bluenote that Turrentine died at NYC's
Blue Note. I hope this is untrue.
Heath

[Russell Schneider]

In article <39BD628D...@in-tch.com>,

I found it mentioned as a rumor at several other forums online, but all
of them said it was a rumor. I hope its not true, I was looking forward
to hearing him at jazz showcase (chicago) next month.
--
Russ

(formerly russe...@aol.com)

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Before you buy.

[Bootsie Barnes]

It was an aneurism on his way to the blue Note. He is still alive.

[sons...@my-deja.com]

In article <RUtv5.6410$_F3.2...@typhoon1.ba-dsg.net>,

"Bootsie Barnes" <bootsi...@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:
> It was an aneurism on his way to the blue Note. He is still alive.
>

When did it happen and how severe is it?

NoaH

[BeBopper]

I believe Bootsie went to see him in the hospital, and that he was in
a coma. Happened on the way to the gig at the Blue Note.

-bebopper

[Russell Schneider]

Jazz Saxophonist, Turrentine Dies

By BETH GARDINER
Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Stanley Turrentine, a jazz saxophonist whose hit
``Sugar'' established him in the popular mainstream and influenced
musicians in
many other genres, died Tuesday. He was 66.

Turrentine died at a New York hospital two days after suffering a
stroke, said his agent, Robin Burgess. He lived in Fort Washington, Md.,
outside
Washington, D.C.

Turrentine, who played tenor saxophone, mixed jazz with blues, rock,
rhythm and blues and pop.

``His impact on jazz was just astonishing,'' Burgess said. ``He had a
large impact on fusion, electric jazz and organ trio music.''

Turrentine started his career playing with Ray Charles and Max Roach. He
scored his biggest hit in 1970 with ``Sugar,'' which became something of
a jazz
standard, frequently performed and re-recorded by admirers.

He grew up in Pittsburgh, surrounded by music. The piano player Ahmad
Jamal lived nearby, and often visited to practice on the Turrentines'
upright
piano. Stanley's mother played piano, his father played tenor sax and
his brother Tommy played trumpet. The brothers played at the Perry Bar in
Pittsburgh, their first professional gig, while they were still in high
school, and often performed together as adults.

Turrentine began traveling with a band when he was 16, and later joined
one of Charles' early rhythm and blues groups. He played in a jazz band
headed by
Roach and replaced the departing John Coltrane in Earl Bostic's band.

Turrentine went solo in the 1960s. His blues-influenced riffs brought
him commercial success with albums such as ``Stan 'The Man' Turrentine,''
``Up at
Minton's,'' and ``Never Let Me Go.'' When ``Sugar'' brought him fame
outside the jazz world, some fellow musicians accused him of abandoning
artistry to
pander to popular taste.

He said he preferred mixing genres to being boxed in.

``One day, my stepson and I were alphabetizing my albums over the years,
and I noticed that they categorized me as a rock and roll player on
certain
albums, a bee-bop player on other albums, a pop player, a fusion
player,'' he once said. ``And I'm just saying ... 'Gee, I'm just playing
with different settings,
but I'm still playing the same way.'''

--
Russ

(formerly russe...@aol.com)

[Fred]

I had the opportunity to first hear Stanley play this year in Seattle. He
played the national anthem at a Seattle Mariners game. He later performed
at Jazz Alley here in Seattle as well. Even though I heard his music for
the first time last month, he was awesome.

He is, and will be greatly missed.

"Russell Schneider" <russ...@mediaone.net> wrote in message
news:8pmrhn$912$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...

> Jazz Saxophonist, Turrentine Dies
>
> By BETH GARDINER
> Associated Press Writer
>

> NEW YORK (AP) - Stanley Turrentine, a jazz saxophonist whose hit

[Mike Pierce]

What can I say; was there a saxophonist anywhere more together than
Stanley Turrentine? He and Eddie Harris were my first influences and
now they're both gone. It's a sad day. Turrentine could play anything
and still stay within himself. I especially dug his turnarounds and, of
course, his pure soul. God bless ya Stanley.

Peace Mike Pierce

[Mark Rybiski]

Stanley, Bless your soul, God knows you blessed mine from the first
time I heard you on a CTI label album in the early '70's. What a huge
loss the world of music and saxophone have incurred from your passing.
Here's to one of the great ones and master of the tenor saxophone. Your
soulful expression was so damn deep. Here's to the real "Mr. T."

[Paul Lindemeyer]

He was the only saxophonist whose music could make my admittedly
tone-deaf mother say,
"I love his tone." If that isn't soul, what is?

> Jazz Saxophonist, Turrentine Dies
>
> By BETH GARDINER
> Associated Press Writer
>
> NEW YORK (AP) — Stanley Turrentine, a jazz saxophonist whose hit
> ``Sugar'' established him in the popular mainstream and influenced
> musicians in
> many other genres, died Tuesday. He was 66.

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