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With its mix of pop covers and jazz material, The Look of Love could be considered a typical Turrentine album from the late '60s. What sets this and a few other of his Blue Note titles apart, though, are the full yet tasteful string and band arrangements by jazz flügelhorn player and composer Thad Jones. With his flexible phrasing and muscular tone, Turrentine dives into the lush arrangements, especially on the sweeping rendition of Burt Bacharach's "Look of Love." Other pop selections bring mixed results: The plodding arrangement on "McArthur Park" garners a lukewarm response from Turrentine, while the tender settings for "Emily" and another Bacharach number, "This Guy's in Love With You," elicit the kind of velvety vaporous tone and sincere romantic phrasing Turrentine usually killed with on ballads. More upbeat, straight-ahead material like "A Beautiful Friendship" and the blues swinger "Blues for Stan" keep the date well balanced and set the table for some masterful Turrentine solos. Again, special mention should be made of Thad Jones who, along with Oliver Nelson (Nancy Wilson's Welcome to My Love in particular) and Duke Pearson, supplanted the usual syrupy arrangements found on "cross-over" dates with intelligent, complimentary charts. Turrentine certainly appreciated it, as evidenced by his strong work here. Purists who usually cringe at late-'60s jazz dates like this (yes, there is a Beatles cover here) might be pleasantly surprised. For those who feel Bacharach and Jimmy Webb provide fine material for jazz, then The Look of Love is a must.
© Stephen Cook /TiVo
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Jimmy Buffington, French Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Burt Bacharach, Composer - Hal David, Composer - George Duvivier, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Grady Tate, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Duke Pearson, Producer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Stanley Turrentine, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Burrell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Snooky Young, Flugelhorn, AssociatedPerformer - Benny Powell, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
John Lennon, ComposerLyricist - Paul Mccartney, ComposerLyricist - Duke Pearson, Producer - Stanley Turrentine, MainArtist
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Jule Styne, ComposerLyricist - Duke Pearson, Producer - Stanley Turrentine, MainArtist - Donald Kahn, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Duke Pearson, Producer - Stanley Turrentine, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Jimmy Buffington, French Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Burt Bacharach, Composer - Hal David, Composer - George Duvivier, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Jimmy Nottingham, Flugelhorn, AssociatedPerformer - Grady Tate, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alfred Lion, Producer - Duke Pearson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Stanley Turrentine, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Burrell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Snooky Young, Flugelhorn, AssociatedPerformer - Benny Powell, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Vince Hill, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Jimmy Webb, Composer - Duke Pearson, Producer - Stanley Turrentine, MainArtist
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Duke Pearson, Producer - Tommy Wolf, ComposerLyricist - Stanley Turrentine, MainArtist
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - JOHNNY MANDEL, ComposerLyricist - Duke Pearson, Producer - Stanley Turrentine, MainArtist
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
John La Touche, ComposerLyricist - Duke Pearson, Producer - Vernon Duke, ComposerLyricist - Stanley Turrentine, MainArtist
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Charlie Chaplin, ComposerLyricist - Duke Pearson, Producer - Stanley Turrentine, MainArtist
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Album review
With its mix of pop covers and jazz material, The Look of Love could be considered a typical Turrentine album from the late '60s. What sets this and a few other of his Blue Note titles apart, though, are the full yet tasteful string and band arrangements by jazz flügelhorn player and composer Thad Jones. With his flexible phrasing and muscular tone, Turrentine dives into the lush arrangements, especially on the sweeping rendition of Burt Bacharach's "Look of Love." Other pop selections bring mixed results: The plodding arrangement on "McArthur Park" garners a lukewarm response from Turrentine, while the tender settings for "Emily" and another Bacharach number, "This Guy's in Love With You," elicit the kind of velvety vaporous tone and sincere romantic phrasing Turrentine usually killed with on ballads. More upbeat, straight-ahead material like "A Beautiful Friendship" and the blues swinger "Blues for Stan" keep the date well balanced and set the table for some masterful Turrentine solos. Again, special mention should be made of Thad Jones who, along with Oliver Nelson (Nancy Wilson's Welcome to My Love in particular) and Duke Pearson, supplanted the usual syrupy arrangements found on "cross-over" dates with intelligent, complimentary charts. Turrentine certainly appreciated it, as evidenced by his strong work here. Purists who usually cringe at late-'60s jazz dates like this (yes, there is a Beatles cover here) might be pleasantly surprised. For those who feel Bacharach and Jimmy Webb provide fine material for jazz, then The Look of Love is a must.
© Stephen Cook /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:37:52
- Main artists: Stanley Turrentine
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Blue Note Records
- Genre: Jazz
© 1968 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
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