1985 studio album by Stanley Turrentine
Straight Ahead is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, his first recording for the Blue Note label since Another Story in 1969, featuring four performances by Turrentine with Jimmy Smith, George Benson, Ron Carter and Jimmy Madison, and two tracks with Les McCann, Jimmy Ponder, Peter Brown, and Gerrick King.[1]
Reception
The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars and states "Great combination of musicians as on earlier cookers, but time has passed — it does not come off. Pleasant enough though, but lacks high spots".[2]
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Track listing
- All compositions by Stanley Turrentine except as indicated
- "Plum" - 6:09
- "A Child Is Born" (Thad Jones) - 8:03
- "Other Side of Time" - 5:25
- "Straight Ahead" - 6:25
- "The Longer You Wait" (Les McCann, Jon Hendricks) - 8:58
- "Ah Rio" - 4:54
- Recorded at Power Play Studios, Long Island City, NY on November 24, 1984 (tracks 5 & 6) and Sigma Sound Studios, NYC on December 7, 1984 (tracks 1-4).
Personnel
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- Freedom (Kenny Burrell, 1963–64)
- Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell, 1963)
- I'm Tryin' to Get Home (Donald Byrd, 1964)
- Up with Donald Byrd (1964)
- With the Tenors of Our Time (Roy Hargrove, 1994)
- Life Flight (Freddie Hubbard, 1987)
- Flight to Jordan (Duke Jordan, 1960)
- Only Trust Your Heart (Diana Krall, 1994)
- Abbey Is Blue (Abbey Lincoln, 1959)
- Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann, 1961)
- Electric Funk (Jimmy McGriff, 1969)
- Speakin' My Piece (Horace Parlan, 1960)
- On the Spur of the Moment (Horace Parlan, 1961)
- The Right Touch (Duke Pearson, 1967)
- Easy Living/Congo Lament (Ike Quebec, 1962)
- Comin' On! (Dizzy Reece, 1960)
- Serenade to a Soul Sister (Horace Silver, 1968)
- Back at the Chicken Shack (Jimmy Smith, 1960)
- Midnight Special (Jimmy Smith, 1960)
- Prayer Meetin' (Jimmy Smith, 1961)
- A.T.'s Delight (Art Taylor, 1960)
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