The Spoiler (album)

The Spoiler
Studio album by Stanley Turrentine
Released	End of September 1967[1]
Recorded	September 22, 1966
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:19
Label	Blue Note; BST 84256
Producer	Alfred Lion
Stanley Turrentine chronology

The Spoiler is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, James Spaulding, Pepper Adams, McCoy Tyner, Julian Priester, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Roker with arrangements by Duke Pearson.^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and states "despite some potentially indifferent material, Turrentine is in fine form throughout the date".^[4]

Track listing

"The Magilla" (Duke Pearson) - 6:06
"When the Sun Comes Out" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 6:00
"La Fiesta" (Armando Boza) - 5:05
"Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 7:23
"Maybe September (Theme from the Oscar)" (Ray Evans, Percy Faith, Jay Livingston) - 4:46
"You're Gonna Hear From Me" (André Previn, Dory Previn) - 5:21
"Lonesome Lover" (Billy Eckstine, Max Roach) - 4:38 Bonus track on CD

Personnel

Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone
Blue Mitchell - trumpet
Julian Priester - trombone
James Spaulding - alto saxophone, flute
Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone
McCoy Tyner - piano
Bob Cranshaw - bass, electric bass
Mickey Roker - drums
Joseph Rivera - percussion (tracks 1,3 & 4)
Duke Pearson - arranger

Production

Alfred Lion - producer
Rudy Van Gelder - engineer

References

↑ Billboard Sep 16, 1967
↑ Stanley Turrentine discography accessed January 6, 2010.
↑ Allmusic Review
↑ Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed January 6, 2010.

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[1] Billboard Sep 16, 1967

[2] Stanley Turrentine discography accessed January 6, 2010.

[3] Allmusic Review

[4] Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed January 6, 2010.

Stanley Turrentine
Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Blue Hour (and The Three Sounds, 1960) Look Out! (1960) Stan "The Man" Turrentine (1960) Comin' Your Way (1961) Up at "Minton's" (1961) ZT's Blues (1961) That's Where It's At (1962) Jubilee Shout!!! (1962) In Memory Of (1964) Mr. Natural (1964) Joyride (1965) Rough 'n' Tumble (1966) Easy Walker (1966–69) The Spoiler (1966) A Bluish Bag (1967) The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967) The Look of Love (1968) Always Something There (1968) Another Story (1969) Sugar (1970) Gilberto with Turrentine (with Astrud Gilberto, 1971) Salt Song (1971) The Sugar Man (1971) Cherry (1972) Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine in Concert Volume One (1973) In Concert Volume Two (Freddie Hubbard & Stanley Turrentine album) (and Freddie Hubbard, 1973) Don't Mess with Mister T. (1973) Pieces of Dreams (1974) Have You Ever Seen the Rain (1975) In the Pocket (1975) Everybody Come On Out (1976) The Man with the Sad Face (1976) Nightwings (1977) Tender Togetherness (1981) Straight Ahead (1984) Wonderland (1986)
And Shirley Scott	Hip Soul (session led by Scott, 1961) Hip Twist (Scott, 1961) Dearly Beloved (1962) The Soul Is Willing (Scott, 1963) A Chip Off the Old Block (1963) Never Let Me Go (1963) Soul Shoutin' (Scott, 1963) Blue Flames (joint leaders, 1964) Everybody Loves a Lover (Scott, 1964) Hustlin' (1964) Let It Go (1966) Queen of the Organ (Scott, 1966) Common Touch (1968) Soul Song (1968)
With Max Roach	Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (1959) Quiet as It's Kept (1959) Long as You're Living (1960) Parisian Sketches (1960)
With others	Freedom (Kenny Burrell, 1963–64) Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell, 1963) I'm Tryin' to Get Home (Donald Byrd, 1964) Up with Donald Byrd (1964) With the Tenors of Our Time (Roy Hargrove, 1994) Life Flight (Freddie Hubbard, 1987) Flight to Jordan (Duke Jordan, 1960) Only Trust Your Heart (Diana Krall, 1994) Abbey Is Blue (Abbey Lincoln, 1959) Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann, 1961) Electric Funk (Jimmy McGriff, 1969) Speakin' My Piece (Horace Parlan, 1960) On the Spur of the Moment (Horace Parlan, 1961) The Right Touch (Duke Pearson, 1967) Easy Living/Congo Lament (Ike Quebec, 1962) Comin' On! (Dizzy Reece, 1960) Serenade to a Soul Sister (Horace Silver, 1968) Back at the Chicken Shack (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Midnight Special (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Prayer Meetin' (Jimmy Smith, 1961) A.T.'s Delight (Art Taylor, 1960)

Pepper Adams
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not release.
Albums as leader	Baritones and French Horns/Dakar (John Coltrane, 1957) Critics' Choice (1957) Pepper Adams Quintet (1957) The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams (1957) The Pepper-Knepper Quintet (and Jimmy Knepper, 1958) Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963) Mean What You Say (Thad Jones, 1966) Encounter! (1968) Ephemera (1973) Julian (1975) Twelfth & Pingree (1975) Baritone Madness (1977) Reflectory (1978) Be-Bop? (and Barry Altschul, ) The Master (1980) Urban Dreams (1981) California Cookin' (1983) Conjuration: Fat Tuesday's Session (1983) Generations (and Frank Foster, 1985) The Adams Effect (1985)
Co-led/ with Donald Byrd	10 to 4 at the 5 Spot (1958) Off to the Races (1959) Byrd in Hand (1959) At the Half Note Cafe (1960) Motor City Scene (1960) Out of This World (1961) Chant (1961) The Cat Walk (1961) Royal Flush (1961) The Creeper (1967)
With The Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra	Opening Night (1966) Presenting Thad Jones/Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra (1966) Presenting Joe Williams and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, the Jazz Orchestra (1966) Live at the Village Vanguard (1967) The Big Band Sound of Thad Jones/Mel Lewis featuring Miss Ruth Brown (1968) Monday Night (1968) Basle, 1969 (1969) Consummation (1970) Suite for Pops (1972–75) Thad Jones/Mel Lewis and Manuel De Sica (1973–74) Live in Tokyo (1974) Potpourri (1974) New Life (1975–76) Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra with Rhoda Scott (1976) Live in Munich (1976) It Only Happens Every Time (1977)
With others	Hello There, Universe (Mose Allison, 1970) The Big Sound (Gene Ammons, 1958) Groove Blues (Gene Ammons, 1958) Blue Gene (Gene Ammons, 1958) Theme Music from "The James Dean Story" (Chet Baker, 1956) Chet (Chet Baker, 1958–59) Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) Cubicle (Walter Bishop Jr., 1978) MCMLXX (Ray Bryant, 1970) Double Cross (Hank Crawford, 1967) Mr. Blues Plays Lady Soul (Hank Crawford, 1969) Help Me Make It Through the Night (Hank Crawford, 1971–72) Muses for Richard Davis (1969) Ridin' High (Maynard Ferguson, 1967) Soul Street (Jimmy Forrest, 1958) Four on the Outside (Curtis Fuller, 1978) Red's Good Groove (Red Garland, 1962) Live at the Village Vanguard (Dizzy Gillespie, 1967) Creole Cookin' (Bobby Hackett, 1967) Wild Horses Rock Steady (Johnny "Hammond" Smith, 1971) The Prophet (Johnny "Hammond" Smith, 1972) Luminescence! (Barry Harris, 1967) Bull's Eye! (Barry Harris, 1968) Poly-Currents (Elvin Jones, 1969) Merry-Go-Round (Elvin Jones, 1971) Showcase (Philly Joe Jones, 1959) I/We Had a Ball (Quincy Jones, et al, 1965) Kenton with Voices (Stan Kenton, 1957) Our Mann Flute (Herbie Mann, 1960–66) Journey (Arif Mardin, 1973) Dusty Blue (Howard McGhee, 1960) Blues & Roots (Charles Mingus, 1959) The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus, 1994) A Sure Thing (Blue Mitchell, 1962) Boss Horn (Blue Mitchell, 1966) Heads Up! (Blue Mitchell, 1967) Get Those Elephants Out'a Here (The Mitchells: Whitey, Red & Blue Mitchell & André Previn, 1958) Poppin' (Hank Mobley, 1957) The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (1959) The Cooker (Lee Morgan, 1958) Standards (Lee Morgan, 1967) More Blues and the Abstract Truth (Oliver Nelson, 1964) Dedication! (Duke Pearson, 1961)/Minor Mishap (Freddie Hubbard, 1961) Honeybuns (Duke Pearson, 1965) Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band (Duke Pearson, 1967–68) Now Hear This (Duke Pearson, 1968) Blue Odyssey (Houston Person, 1968) Pony's Express (Pony Poindexter, 1962) Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers (1957) Portrait of Shorty (Shorty Rogers, 1957) Pretty for the People (A.K. Salim, 1957) Black Widow (Lalo Schifrin, 1976) I Want a Country Man (Dakota Staton, 1973) Roots (Idrees Sulieman, 1957) Man Bites Harmonica! (Toots Thielemans, 1958) Mister Mysterious (Mickey Tucker, 1978) The Spoiler (Stanley Turrentine, 1966) Blues for Easy Livers (Jimmy Witherspoon, 1965–66) Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1966)

Blue Mitchell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Big 6 (1958) Get Those Elephants Out'a Here (with Red and Whitey Mitchell, 1958) Out of the Blue (1959) Blue Soul (1959) Blue's Moods (1960) Smooth as the Wind (1960–61) A Sure Thing (1962) The Cup Bearers (1962) Step Lightly (1963) The Thing to Do (1964) Down with It! (1965) Bring It Home to Me (1966) Boss Horn (1966) Heads Up! (1967) Collision in Black (1968) Bantu Village (1969) Blue Mitchell/Soul Village (1971) Vital Blue (1971) Blues' Blues (1972) The Last Tango = Blues (1973) Graffiti Blues (1973) Many Shades of Blue (1974) Stratosonic Nuances (1975) Funktion Junction (1976) African Violet (1977) Mapenzi (1977) Stablemates (1977) Summer Soft (1977)
With Lou Donaldson	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1952) The Time Is Right (1959) Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967) Midnight Creeper (1968) Say It Loud! (1968) Everything I Play Is Funky (1970) Pretty Things (1970)
With Philly Joe Jones	Together! (with Elvin Jones, 1961) Drums Around the World (1959) Showcase (1959) Advance! (1978) Drum Song (1978)
With Sam Jones	The Soul Society (1960) The Chant (1961) Down Home (1962) Something in Common (1974–77) Changes & Things (1977)
With Jimmy McGriff	The Worm (1968) Step 1 (1968) A Thing to Come By (1969) Electric Funk (1969)
With Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away (1959) Finger Poppin' (1959) Horace-Scope (1960) Doin' the Thing (1961) The Tokyo Blues (1962) Silver's Serenade (1963) Song for My Father (1963–64)
With Stanley Turrentine	A Chip Off the Old Block (1963) In Memory Of (1964) Rough 'n' Tumble (1966) The Spoiler (1966) A Bluish Bag (1967) The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967) The Sugar Man (1971)
With others	Portrait of Cannonball (Cannonball Adderley, 1958) Back to the Tracks (Tina Brooks, 1960) Street Singer (Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean, 1960) My Kind of Jazz (Ray Charles, 1970) True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Silver Blue (with Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Dolo! (Dolo Coker, 1976) California Hard (Dolo Coker, 1976) Junior's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1961) Filthy! (Papa John Creach, 1972) Red's Good Groove (Red Garland, 1962) Green Is Beautiful (Grant Green, 1970) Soul Mist! (Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1966) Homecoming! (Elmo Hope, 1961) Montara (Bobby Hutcherson, 1975) The Soul Brotherhood (Charles Kynard, 1969) The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968) Rakin' and Scrapin' (Harold Mabern, 1968) Jazz Blues Fusion (John Mayall, 1971) Ten Years Are Gone (John Mayall, 1973) Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann, 1961) Can't Hide Love (Carmen McRae, 1976) Capuchin Swing (Jackie McLean, 1960) Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1960) Hi Voltage (Hank Mobley, 1967) Captain Buckles (David "Fathead" Newman, 1970) Opus De Don (Don Patterson, 1968) Oh Baby! (Big John Patton, 1965) Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960) Images (Sonny Red, 1961) Good Move! (Freddie Roach, 1963) Takin' Care of Business (Charlie Rouse, 1960) Open House (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Plain Talk (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (Sonny Stitt, 1962) Soul Time (Bobby Timmons, 1960) Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick, 1963) The Caribbean Suite (Harold Vick, 1966) Spectrum (Cedar Walton, 1968) The Electric Boogaloo Song (Cedar Walton, 1969) Beyond Mobius (Cedar Walton, 1976) Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1966)