Sweet Rain Explained

Sweet Rain
Type:	Album
Artist:	Stan Getz
Cover:	Sweet Rain.jpg
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
Producer:	Creed Taylor
Prev Title:	Voices
Prev Year:	1966
Next Year:	1968

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]

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

• Stan Getz – tenor saxophone
• Chick Corea – piano
• Ron Carter – bass
• Grady Tate – drums

Additional personnel

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

Charts

Chart (1967)	Peak position
US Top LPs (Billboard)^[3]	195
US Jazz LPs (Billboard)^[4]	5

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=HygEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Stan+Getz+Sweet+Rain+8693&pg=PA41 Billboard July 22, 1967
2. Web site: Sweet Rain – Stan Getz | AllMusic . Steve . Huey . allmusic.com . 20 July 2011.
3. Web site: Sweet Rain – Stan Getz | Awards | AllMusic . allmusic.com . 27 October 2013.
4. Web site: Sweet Rain – Stan Getz | Awards | AllMusic . allmusic.com . 27 October 2013.