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Blue Hour is a collaboration album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and The Three Sounds recorded in 1961 for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkins and Bill Dowdy. The album was reissued in 2000 with an additional disc of unreleased recordings, as Blue Hour: The Complete Sessions (Blue Note 24586).

Track listing:
Original LP:

“I Want a Little Girl” (Murray Mencher, Billy Moll) – 7:03
“Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You” (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) – 5:20
“Blue Riff” (Gene Harris) – 6:26
“Since I Fell for You” (Buddy Johnson) – 8:46
“Willow Weep for Me” (Ann Ronell) – 9:55

Bonus tracks on Blue Hour: The Complete Sessions CD 2:

“Blues in the Closet” (Pettiford) – 5:00
“Just in Time” (Comden, Green, Styne) – 5:40
“Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You” [Alternate Take] – 5:33
“Where or When” (Hart, Rodgers) – 7:00
“Blue Hour” (Gene Harris) – 5:14
“There Is No Greater Love” (Jones, Symes) – 8:24
“Alone Together” (Dietz, Schwartz) – 4:40
“Strike up the Band” (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:24

Recorded on December 16, 1960 (original LP & CD 2 tracks 1–3) and June 29, 1960 (CD 2 tracks 4–8).

Personnel:
Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone
Gene Harris – piano
Andrew Simpkins – bass
Bill Dowdy – drums

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Released: March 1961
Recorded: June 29 & December 16, 1960
Studio: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Length: 37:30 original LP
84:25 The Complete Sessions
Label: Blue Note
BST 84057
Producer: Alfred Lion