Tommy Turrentine
Tommy Turrentine
Top Songs
| 1 | Blues For J.P. | ||
| 2 | Two, Three, One, Oh! | ||
| 3 | Too Clean | ||
| 4 | Long As You're Living | ||
| 5 | Time's Up |
Albums
Dec 1959 • 7 songs
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Biography
Stanley Turrentine's older brother, Tommy, had a parallel career for awhile. His most significant early gigs were with Benny Carter (1946), Earl Bostic (1952-1955), and Charles Mingus (1956), in addition to big band work with Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, and Count Basie. Turrentine received some recognition playing next to his brother during a well-documented stint with Max Roach (1959-1960). In the early '60s he recorded his lone session as a leader (for Time) and appeared on dates led by Horace Parlan, Jackie McLean, Sonny Clark, Lou Donaldson, and Stanley Turrentine, be...