It Could Only Happen with You

The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 4 stars stating "Duke Pearson followed the conventions of the time and cut a smooth, commercially-oriented jazz album that made allusions to traditional and contemporary pop, hard bop, soul-jazz and bossa nova... Although the record is a pleasant artifact of its time, it's a rather sad, undistinguished way to close out Pearson's career.[2]

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

1. "Gira, Girou (Round and Round)" (Milton Nascimento) – 7:20
2. "It Could Only Happen with You" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Louis Oliveira, Ray Gilbert) – 3:35
3. "Book's Bossa" (Walter Booker, Cedar Walton) – 6:35
4. "Hermeto" (Hermeto Pascoal) – 5:35
5. "Lost in the Stars" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 3:27
6. "Stormy" (Buddy Buie, J. R. Cobb) – 3:35
7. "Emily" (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) – 4:00

• Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs NJ on February 13 (track 8) & April 10 (tracks 1-7), 1970

• Duke Pearson - piano, electric piano
• Burt Collins, Joe Shepley (tracks 1-7) - trumpet
• Kenny Rupp - trombone
• Hermeto Pascoal - flute, guitar, bass (tracks 1-7)
• Jerry Dodgion (track 8). Al Gibbons (tracks 1-7) - alto saxophone, alto flute
• Frank Foster - tenor saxophone (tracks 1-7)
• Lew Tabackin - tenor saxophone, flute (track 8)
• Bob Cranshaw - bass, electric bass (tracks 1-7)
• Ron Carter - bass (track 8)
• Mickey Roker - drums
• Flora Purim - vocals (tracks 1, 2 & 6)