I take lessons with Kristen Strom, probably best known for being in San Francisco’s Nuclear Whales sax quartet, and she has a lot of funny stories from her life as a musician. On Wednesday I turned to Stanley Turrentine’s “Sugar” to practice for a performance next week and she told me about how Turrentine’s dad made little Stanley play only one note per day for a while. Probably not too much fun to do that, but it helped him get an incredible sound on all the notes. I got a tape with “Sugar” on it when I was about 12 years old and have always liked that song. Lately I’ve been working on transcribing Turrentine’s solo on Midnight Special from the album with Jimmy Smith.