| Sugar | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Stanley Turrentine |
| Cover: | Sugar (Stanley Turrentine album).jpg |
| Released: | November 22, 1970[1] |
| Recorded: | November 1970 (#1–4) Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs July 18, 1971 (#5) Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles |
| Genre: | Jazz, soul jazz, hard bop |
| Length: | 44:40 original LP |
| Label: | CTI CTI 6005 |
| Producer: | Creed Taylor |
| Chronology: | Stanley Turrentine |
| Prev Title: | Another Story |
| Prev Year: | 1969 |
| Next Title: | The Sugar Man |
| Next Year: | 1971 |
Sugar is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, his first recorded for the CTI Records label following his long association with Blue Note, featuring performances by Turrentine with Freddie Hubbard, George Benson, Ron Carter, and Billy Kaye with Lonnie Liston Smith added on the title track and Butch Cornell and Richard "Pablo" Landrum on the other two tracks on the original release.[2] The CD rerelease added a live version of the title track recorded at the Hollywood Palladium in 1971.
The album is one of Turrentine's best-received and was greeted with universal acclaim on release and on subsequent reissues. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars and states "If jazz fans are interested in Turrentine beyond the Blue Note period — and they should be — this is a heck of a place to listen for satisfaction".[3] The All About Jazz review by David Rickert states "Seldom does a group of musicians click on all levels and rise into the stratosphere, but this is one such record, a relic from a time when jazz was going through growing pains but still spawning some interesting projects. Turrentine was one of the lucky few who made his crowning achievement during this time".[4]
All compositions by Stanley Turrentine except as indicated.