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Stanley Turrentine

American tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 5, 1934, and has explored a variety of jazz styles in a career associated with the Blue Note and CTI Records labels. Son of a saxophonist and younger brother of trumpeter Tommy Turrentine (1928-1997), he studied cello before turning to saxophone at the age of eleven. He made his debut in the rhythm'n'blues groups of Lowell Fulson with Ray Charles (1950-1951), whom he accompanied the following year, Earl Bostic (where he replaced John Coltrane in 1953) and pianist Tadd Dameron, with his br...