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Blue Hour

1961 studio album by Stanley Turrentine with The Three Sounds

This article is about the jazz album. For other uses, see Blue hour (disambiguation).

Blue Hour is a collaboration album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and The Three Sounds recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkins and Bill Dowdy.[2] The album was reissued in 2000 with an additional disc of unreleased recordings, as Blue Hour: The Complete Sessions (Blue Note 24586).[3]

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The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the 2000 2CD Reissue 3 stars and describes it as "a very relaxed and bluesy release".[3] The original album was awarded 4½ stars by Michael Erlewine of Allmusic.

Track listing

Original LP

  1. "I Want a Little Girl" (Murray Mencher, Billy Moll) – 7:03
  2. "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) – 5:20
  3. "Blue Riff" (Gene Harris) – 6:26
  4. "Since I Fell for You" (Buddy Johnson) – 8:46
  5. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 9:55

Bonus tracks on Blue Hour: The Complete Sessions CD 2:

  1. "Blues in the Closet" (Pettiford) – 5:00
  2. "Just in Time" (Comden, Green, Styne) – 5:40
  3. "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" [Alternate Take] – 5:33
  4. "Where or When" (Hart, Rodgers) – 7:00
  5. "Blue Hour" (Gene Harris) – 5:14
  6. "There Is No Greater Love" (Jones, Symes) – 8:24
  7. "Alone Together" (Dietz, Schwartz) – 4:40
  8. "Strike up the Band" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:24

Recorded on December 16, 1960 (original LP & CD 2 tracks 1–3) and June 29, 1960 (CD 2 tracks 4–8).

Personnel

Production

References

  1. [1]
    Billboard Mar 20, 1961
  2. [2]
    Stanley Turrentine discography accessed January 4, 2010.
  3. [3]
    Dryden, K. Allmusic Review accessed January 4, 2010.
  4. [4]
    Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1424. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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