Never Let Me Go (Stanley Turrentine album)

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Never Let Me Go
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Studio album by
ReleasedLate November-early December 1963 [1]
RecordedJanuary 18, 1963 (#6, 8)
February 13, 1963 (#1–5, 7)
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length45:31
Label Blue Note
BST 84129
Producer Alfred Lion
Stanley Turrentine chronology
Jubilee Shout!!!
(1962)
Never Let Me Go
(1963)
Soul Shoutin'
(1963)

Never Let Me Go is the eighth album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, Major Holley, Ray Barretto and Al Harewood, with Sam Jones and Clarence Johnston replacing Holley, Barretto and Harewood on two tracks. [2]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and calls it "massive and bright, saturated in deep soul and blues... It's a stunner". [5]

Track listing

All compositions by Stanley Turrentine except where noted.

  1. "Trouble" (Harold Logan, Lloyd Price) - 5:58
  2. "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog, Billie Holiday) - 3:56
  3. "Sara's Dance" - 6:14
  4. "Without a Song" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) - 5:28
  5. "Major's Minor" (Shirley Scott, Turrentine) - 6:21
  6. "Never Let Me Go" (Scott) - 4:55
  7. "You'll Never Get Away from Me" (Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne) - 6:08
  8. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 6:31 Bonus track on CD

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. Billboard Dec 7, 1963
  2. Stanley Turrentine discography accessed January 5, 2010.
  3. Allmusic Review
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1424. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed January 5, 2010.