Stanley Turrentine - Do You Have Any Sugar? (1998)

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Artist: Stanley Turrentine
Title: Do You Have Any Sugar?
Year Of Release: 1998
Label: Concord Vista[CCD-4862-2]
Genre: Jazz, Soul Jazz
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 61:28
Total Size: 353 MB(+3%) | 145 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. Kepp On Keepin' On
02. Do You Have Any Sugar
03. Stuff You Gotta Watch
04. For Too Litle Love
05. Pause To Wonder
06. Favorite Heart
07. Calling You
08. Back In The Day
09. 3 RBs
10. Monte Cristo
11. Bar Fly

personnel :

Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone
Niki Harris - vocals
Mike Miller - guitar
Rick Braun - trumpet
Andy Martin - trombone
Kei Akagi, Joe Sample - piano
Steven Boyd, Greg Phillinganes - keyboards
Ray Brown, Abe Laboriel - bass
Harvey Mason - drums, percussion, drum programming
Alex Acuna - percussion

Stanley Turrentine still has a sweeter sound than any other saxophonist, even at the age of 65. It's a joy to hear him play, even when the material is a little faceless and the sound is a little too smooth, as it is on Do You Have Any Sugar? Since Turrentine is a fine musician, there are moments to cherish scattered throughout the record -- the spare, soulful ballad "Far Too Little Love" or the R&B groove of "Back in the Day" or the bluesy "2 RBs," for instance -- but it often veers too close to smooth jazz territory, especially when vocalist Niki Harris takes the center stage; she is a fine vocalist, but the style of the music becomes too close to crossover jazz whenever she's on the scene. And that's the main problem with Do You Have Any Sugar?: Every time it begins to recall prime-period Turrentine, it drifts away into glossy urban crossover jazz. Aficionados will delight in certain phrases he turns out -- he remains an excellent saxophonist, after all -- but the album overall makes little impact.~Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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