Common Touch

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{{Infobox album|

| name = Common Touch

| type = Album

| artist = Stanley Turrentine featuring Shirley Scott

| cover = Common Touch.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 1969[https://books.google.com/books?id=xykEAAAAMBAJ&dq=turrentine+Common+Touch&pg=PA94 Billboard Sep 6, 1969]

| recorded = August 30, 1968

| venue =

| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

| genre = Jazz

| length = 39:30 original LP

| label = Blue Note
BST 84315

| producer = Francis Wolff

| chronology = Stanley Turrentine

| prev_title = The Look of Love

| prev_year = 1968

| next_title = Always Something There

| next_year = 1968

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Shirley Scott

| type = studio album

| prev_title = Girl Talk

| prev_year = 1967

| title = Common Touch

| year = 1968

| next_title = Soul Song

| next_year = 1968

}}

}}

Common Touch is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine featuring Shirley Scott recorded for the Blue Note label in 1968 and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, Jimmy Ponder, Bob Cranshaw and Leo Morris.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/stanley-turrentine/catalog/#blue-note-bst-84315 Stanley Turrentine discography] accessed January 8, 2010. The CD reissue added one bonus track recorded in a different session and originally released on Ain't No Way (LT 1095, 1980). The other four tracks may be found on the CD reissue of Easy Walker.

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r156766|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed January 10, 2010.

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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow, awarded the album 3 stars and states "Although not essential (no one seems to sweat much and none of the tempos are above a slow-medium pace), this lazy date has its pleasurable moments".Yanow, S. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r156766|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed January 7, 2010.

Track listing

All compositions by Stanley Turrentine except as noted

  1. "Buster Brown" - 5:25
  2. "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan) - 5:55
  3. "Lonely Avenue" (Doc Pomus) - 8:07
  4. "Boogaloo" (Shirley Scott) - 6:25
  5. "Common Touch" - 6:21
  6. "Living Through It All" - 7:17
  7. "Ain't No Way" (Carolyn Franklin) - 11:03 Bonus track on CD

Recorded on May 10, 1968 (7) and August 30, 1968 (1-6).

Personnel

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