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Dearly Beloved is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott and Roy Brooks.

Reception.

The AllMusic review by Steve Leggett gave the album 4 stars and stated:” Scott and Turrentine ended up working together on some 15 albums for the Blue Note, Atlantic, Prestige, and Impulse labels before the decade ended, but this one, for all practical purposes, got the ball rolling on their creative collaborations, and it remains one of Turrentine’s finest Blue Note outings.”

Track listing:
“Baia” (Ary Barroso) – 5:32
“Wee Hour Theme” (Turrentine) – 4:42
“My Shining Hour” (Arlen, Mercer) – 6:52
“Troubles of the World” (Traditional) – 5:15
“Yesterdays” (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 8:50
“Dearly Beloved” (Kern, Mercer) – 7:13
“Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You” (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 6:20

Personnel:
Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone
Shirley Scott – organ
Roy Brooks – drums

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Released: February 1962
Recorded: June 8, 1961
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Length: 44:44
Label: Blue Note
BST 84081
Producer: Alfred Lion