This 1970 album finds Stanley Turrentine in a quartet setting, re-embracing a harder-swinging, soul-jazz sound that he had largely left behind for his previous few releases.
- The album was recorded on April 22-24, 1970, at Van Gelder Studios with Rudy Van Gelder engineering.
- It was the first album Turrentine recorded for Creed Taylor's newly formed CTI Records after leaving Blue Note.
- The title track, "Sugar," became one of Turrentine's signature tunes and a jazz radio staple.
Stanley Turrentine is a tenor saxophonist from Philadelphia, known for his expressive playing that bridges jazz and soul. By 1970, he had transitioned to more commercially oriented soul-jazz and funk LPs for Blue Note, but "Sugar" marked a return to his earlier, harder-swinging quartet format on the newly formed CTI label.
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