Blue Hour

Blue Hour
Studio album by
Stanley Turrentine with The Three Sounds
ReleasedMarch 1961
RecordedJune 29 & December 16, 1960
StudiosVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz
Length37:30 original LP
84:25 The Complete Sessions
LabelsBlue Note
BST 84057
ProducerAlfred Lion
Stanley Turrentine chronology
Look Out!
(1960)		 Blue Hour
(1961)		 Comin' Your Way
(1961)
The Three Sounds chronology
It Just Got to Be
(1960)		 Blue Hour
(1961)		 Hey There
(1961)

Blue Hour is a collaboration album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and The Three Sounds recorded in 1961 for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkins and Bill Dowdy. The album was reissued in 2000 with an additional disc of unreleased recordings, as Blue Hour: The Complete Sessions (Blue Note 24586).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllmusicStarStarStarStarHalf star
The Penguin Guide to Jazz RecordingsStarStarStar

The album was awarded 4½ stars by Michael Erlewine of Allmusic. The 2000 2CD Reissue was awarded 3 stars and described as "a very relaxed and bluesy release".

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. ↑ "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. March 20, 1961. Retrieved December 16, 2024 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Stanley Turrentine discography accessed January 4, 2010.
  3. 1 2 Dryden, K. Allmusic Review accessed January 4, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Blue Hour". Allmusic.
  5. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1424. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.