Stanley Turrentine, Do You Have Any Sugar? - 1h 1m 29s

Tracks & Durations

1. Keep on Keepin' On	5:01
2. Do You Have Any Sugar?	5:21
3. Stuff You Gotta Watch	6:16
4. Far Too Little Love	5:42
5. Pause to Wonder	4:31
6. Favorite Heart	5:36
7. Calling You	5:28
8. Back In The Day	7:43
9. 2 RBs	4:43
10. Monte Cristo	4:49
11. Bar Fly	6:11

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Review

The title of tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine's Do You Have Any Sugar? refers to Turrentine's now-classic composition from the 1970s, as well as to his justly famous sweet tone. But unfortunately for straightahead jazz fans, it could also refer to the overly saccharine-sweet nature of the album, much of which is awash in layers of synthesizers and satiny-smooth vocalizing that may delight smooth-jazz fans at the expense of Turrentine's more traditional jazz audience. Turrentine himself is in good form, his playing warmly full-bodied and intensely lyrical, and his sidemen are topnotch. Bassist Ray Brown, pianist Joe Sample, and drummer Harvey Mason (the drummer on Herbie Hancock's famed Head Hunters) are heard to great effect on "Back in the Day," "2 RBs," and "Far Too Little Love" (a rewrite of Duke Ellington's "In a Sentimental Mood" that is somewhat questionably credited here to producer Steven Boyd and Chuck Hoover). But the rest of the tracks, with their ever-present banks of creamy synthesizer tones and pop-R&B vocalizing from Niki Haris, push the album more toward a smooth-jazz audience. --Ezra Gale

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