{"product_id":"stanley-turrentine-easy-walker-blue-note-classic-vinyl-series","title":"Stanley Turrentine - Easy Walker (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEasy Walker is Stanley Turrentine at his most relaxed and soulful, a quartet date from Blue Note's golden years, back in the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series on 180 gram vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCut at Rudy Van Gelder's Englewood Cliffs studio in 1966 and released in 1968, the session pairs the big-toned tenor man with McCoy Tyner, fresh from his landmark years alongside John Coltrane. Bob Cranshaw on bass and Mickey Roker on drums complete a rhythm section that knows exactly when to push and when to lay back, with Alfred Lion producing. The chemistry feels effortless from the first bar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe groove is the whole point. Meat Wave opens with a strutting soul-jazz swagger, and the title track, written by Billy Taylor, glides along with unbothered cool. A warm reading of What the World Needs Now Is Love shows how Turrentine could take a Bacharach and David pop tune and make it sound entirely his own, while Alone Together closes the original program on a more reflective note. Tyner, moving between piano and electric piano, adds sparkle and bite throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePut this on and a Sunday afternoon slows to the right speed. It is soul jazz from a period when Blue Note could barely put a foot wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57307801321777,"sku":"602475807056","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/Stanley_Turrentine-Easy_Walker_Blue_Note_Classic_Vinyl_Series.jpg?v=1793814151","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/stanley-turrentine-easy-walker-blue-note-classic-vinyl-series","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}