TURRENTINE, STANLEY. Jazz saxophonist ( in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). He came from a musical family: his father, Thomas, Sr., played saxophone with the Savoy Sultans in the 1930s. As a child he studied violoncello but changed to tenor saxophone, taking his first lessons from his father. He began playing professionally when he was seventeen with
Lowell Fulson
(1951) and thereafter played with various groups, including
Ray Charles
(1952),
Tadley (Tadd
) Dameron) Dameron...