Stanley Turrentine: "Gibraltar" (from the album "Salt Song").

This is a prime example for what the All Music Guide calls "Slow Burning Funk", a typical Cti Song. Taken from the "Salt Song"-Album, highlightes are Ron Carter with a simple but effective earworm bassline, Eric Gale with a beautiful, subtle (but waaay too short) guitar solo (he's getting a better exposure on the next track, "I told Jesus") and of course Turrentine. Airto Moreira provides (as usual on Cti) spare percussion. The Album features (like most Cti releases) a lush string orchestra, this time with arrangements from Deodato Read the annotations from Doug Paynes excellent website for more information. The link is in the comment section. More from Turrentine's Cti-records later on this blog.