The story behind puzzle No. 36
Stanley Turrentine · Sugar · CTI · 1970
Ten minutes of slow, bluesy groove. Sugar was Stanley Turrentine's own tune and one of the biggest records of his career.
Turrentine recorded Sugar in November 1970 at Rudy Van Gelder's studio for Creed Taylor's CTI label. The title track runs just over ten minutes, and the album became one of his greatest commercial successes.
The band was stacked: Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, George Benson on guitar, Lonnie Liston Smith on electric piano, and Ron Carter on bass.
Turrentine grew up in Pittsburgh's Hill District in a musical family. As a young man he joined Earl Bostic's band in 1953, replacing John Coltrane. He was married to organist Shirley Scott, and the two recorded together often through the 1960s.
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Play Chitlins con Carne, puzzle No. 37, to hear Turrentine seven years earlier.
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