Chip Off The Old Block

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SKU: 69630
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‘A Chip Off The Old Block’ is a quintet session including Stanley Turrentine’s then wife, Shirley Scott on Hammond.  It was recorded on 21st October 1963.  Trumpeter Blue Mitchell shares the horn frontline duties with tenor man Stanley Turrentine.  Regular Turrentine drummer Al Harewood is joined by Earl May on bass to complete the rhythm section. The five tunes are all songs composed or associated with Count Basie.  Basie’s rousing ‘One O’clock Jump’ is a suitably optimistic opener.  Both Mitchell and Turrentine go with the flow created by the compelling rhythm. It is a typical ‘Basie’ style piece.  ‘Midnight Blue’ – not the Kenny Burrell tune – composed by trumpeter Neal Hefti (long-time associate of Basie) is both blue and very late night.  ‘Blues In Hoss’ Flat’ is infectious yet basic in its approach.  The standard ‘Spring Can Hang You Up The Most’ is the type of ballad that suits Turrentine’s dreamy approach. The second Hefti composition is ‘Cherry Point’.  It is a mid-tempo groove that breezes along driven by some fine Hammond playing and understated drum work from Harewood. On ‘A Chip Off The Old Block’, Turrentine pays tribute to the legendary Count Basie and does so with reverence and in doing so shows a lighter, less bluesy side to his own musical persona.

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