Sweet Rain

Sweet Rain
Studio album by Stan Getz
Released Last week of July 1967[1]
Recorded March 21 and 30, 1967
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length 37:29
Label Verve
V6-8693
Producer Creed Taylor
Stan Getz chronology
Voices
(1966)Voices1966		 Sweet Rain
(1967)		 What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David
(1968)What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David1968

Sweet Rain is a jazz album by Stan Getz, released on the Verve record label in 1967.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey states that Sweet Rain is "one of Stan Getz's all-time greatest albums," and "the quartet's level of musicianship remains high on every selection, and the marvelously consistent atmosphere the album evokes places it among Getz's very best. A surefire classic."[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Track listing

  1. "Litha" (Chick Corea) – 8:30
  2. "O Grande Amor" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes) – 4:44
  3. "Sweet Rain" (Mike Gibbs) – 7:12
  4. "Con Alma" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 8:06
  5. "Windows" (Corea) – 8:57
Recorded on March 21 (Tracks 1-3) and March 30 (Tracks 4-5), 1967.

Personnel

Musicians

Additional personnel

  • Producer – Creed Taylor
  • Engineer – Rudy van Gelder
  • Cover photograph – Tom Zimmerman
  • Director of engineering – Val Valentin
  • Original liner notes – Johnny Magnus

Chart performance

YearChartPosition
1967 Billboard 200 195[3]
1967 Billboard Jazz Albums 5[3]

References

  1. ↑ Billboard July 22, 1967
  2. 1 2 Huey, Steve. "Sweet Rain – Stan Getz | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Sweet Rain – Stan Getz | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
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