Stanley Turrentine – Comin’ Your Way (2020 Blue Note Tone Poet Vinyl LP)

Recorded on January 20, 1961 at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Comin’ Your Way captures Stanley Turrentine at his most soulful and confident. Long buried in the Blue Note vaults before finally surfacing, this Tone Poet Series edition restores one of the saxophonist’s most satisfying sessions — a warm, swaggering set that bridges hard bop and soul-jazz with ease.

Joined by his brother Tommy Turrentine on trumpet, Horace Parlan on piano, George Tucker on bass, and Al Harewood on drums, Turrentine leads a band locked into the kind of groove only Rudy Van Gelder could capture. You can hear the room breathe — every cymbal flicker, every horn swell, glowing through the studio’s legendary acoustics.

The album opens with My Girl Is Just Enough Woman for Me, all charm and drive, while Fine L’il Lass and Thomasville simmer with that unmistakable Blue Note heat. Turrentine’s tone turns tender on Someone to Watch Over Me, before closing with Stolen Sweets — equal parts swing and smile.

With cover design by Reid Miles and photography by Francis Wolff, the packaging is as iconic as the music itself. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl, mastered from the original tapes, and housed in a Stoughton tip-on gatefold, this Blue Note Tone Poet edition feels as close as you can get to being in the room with the band.

For fans of Stanley Turrentine vinyl, hard bop and soul-jazz collectors, Comin’ Your Way is both a rediscovery and a revelation — classic Blue Note craftsmanship, revived in perfect form.