🎷 AotW: CTI Stanley Turrentine: The Baddest Turrentine (CTI Records CTI 6048)

Stanley Turrentine: The Baddest Turrentine

CTI Records CTI 6048
Released 1974

A1: Sugar / 10:00​

A2: Salt Song / 7:10​

B1: Speed Ball / 6:35​

B2: Don't Mess with Mister T. / 9:50​

Reissued on CD in 1990 as
The Best of Stanley Turrentine
with revised track list
Epic Associated ZK 45478

1. Sugar 10:00
2. Gibraltar 11:19
3. Storm 9:03
4. Speed Ball 6:37
5. Cherry 5:07
6. Don't Mess With Mister T. 9:49
7. Pieces Of Dreams 7:28
8. Leavin' West 15:51

Epic Associated CD reissue​

Amazon product ASIN B0000026X4

https://www.discogs.com/master/418132-Stanley-Turrentine-The-Baddest-Turrentine

https://www.discogs.com/master/1365955-Stanley-Turrentine-The-Best-Of-Stanley-Turrentine

 

[Rudy]

I bought this bad album on vinyl back in my Colorado record crawl. Only four songs, but they are all favorite cuts from his albums. Sad downside to this record is that it has that awful compression CTI was using on some of their records at the time, giving the records an unfortunate "AM radio" sound. (Recent CD and high-res remasters, and some of the recent vinyl reissues, go back to a master tape that doesn't have the compression, and they sound so much better.)

"Salt Song" still remains one of my all-time favorite Turrentine tracks. Probably because it's composed by Milton Nascimento, and Deodato put a nice backdrop of strings behind the group.