Straight Ahead | ||||
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Released | 1985 | |||
Recorded | November 24 & December 7, 1984 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Blue Note | |||
Producer | Stanley Turrentine | |||
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Straight Ahead is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, released in 1985 on Blue Note Records. [1] This album peaked at No. 10 on the US Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart. [2]
Straight Ahead was Turrentine's first album on Blue Note since 1969's Another Story . Artists such as Jimmy Smith, George Benson, Ron Carter, Jimmy Madison, Les McCann, and Jimmy Ponder appear on this album. [1]
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Michael Erlewine of AllMusic, in a 3/5 star review, wrote "Great combination of musicians as on earlier cookers, but time has passed — it does not come off. Pleasant enough though, but lacks high spots". [3]