Sugar (Stanley Turrentine album)

Sugar
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 22, 1970
RecordedNovember 1970 (#1–4)
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
July 18, 1971 (#5)
Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles
GenreJazz, soul jazz, hard bop
Length44:40 original LP
LabelCTI
CTI 6005
ProducerCreed Taylor
Stanley Turrentine chronology
Another Story
(1969)
Sugar
(1970)
The Sugar Man
(1971)

Sugar is an album by jazz tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, his first recorded for the CTI Records label following his long association with Blue Note, featuring performances by Turrentine with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, guitarist George Benson, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Billy Kaye. Pianist Lonnie Liston Smith is added on the title track, organist Butch Cornell and percussionist Pablo Landrum are on the other two tracks. The CD reissue added a live version of the title track recorded at the Hollywood Palladium in 1971 with flautist Hubert Laws, drummer Billy Cobham, percussionist Airto and keyboardist Johnny Smith.