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Stanley Turrentine's 1966 soul jazz classic finds a deep, bluesy groove that doesn't let up from start to finish. Joining him are trumpeter Blue Mitchell, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams, alto saxophonist James Spaulding, and drummer Mickey Roker.
"Every phrase, every word is attacked with an energy that commands respect. But beware, this young woman could take on the sweetest forms of a melancholy ballad and manage to achieve tenderness. At Last! Is one of the key soul albums of the early 1960's."
"Snowy Beach" is a journal entry documenting a trip through America, a blotter paper of contradictions: snowy beaches, cold shoulders. "These times are changing / made it to a Snowy Beach / relearned who I’m supposed to be."
Where I'm Coming From has all the hallmarks of Prestige Records at it's finest, with an all-star cast of sidemen who brought down Rudy Van Gelder's studio with electrifying grooves from top to bottom.
It was preceded by the single "Over You," a #5 UK hit that also provided the band with a rare entry on Billboard's Hot 100 at #80. Flesh + Blood also included covers of The Byrds' "Eight Miles High" and Wilson Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour."
The XX unique make-up is an inadvertent second nature marriage of 2009's urban/guitar tribes, in one corner fluttering new wave indebted reverberation, in the other, plumes of post-dubstep sub-bass and figuratively, their defining core of rich R&B vocals.