For Lovers

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Chet Baker/John Coltrane/Stan Getz (Sax): Chet Baker; Bob James (piano); Gary Burton (vibraphone); Duke Ellington, Herbie Hancock, Joao Gilberto, Oscar Peterson, Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bill Evans . Personnel: Chet Baker (vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn); John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Joao Gilberto (vocals, guitar); Johnny Hartman, Astrud Gilberto (vocals); Everett Barksdale, Allen Hanlon, Willard Suyker, Herb Ellis, Jim Hall, Jimmy Raney, Kenny Burrell (guitar); Gloria Agostini (harp); Harry Glickman, Lewis Eley, Julius Held, Leo Kruczek, Dave Mankovitz, Ralph Hollander, Gerald Tarack, Sidney Edwards, Morris Stonzek, Louis Haber, David Nadien, Raoul Poliakin, Paul Gershman, Harry Lookofsky (violin); Bernard Zaslav (viola); Charles McCracken , Harvey Shapiro (cello); Henry Freeman, Wilford Holcombe, Seldon Powell, Leon Cohen, Alan Ross (reeds); Jerome Richardson (woodwinds); James Buffington (French horn); Gerard Gustin, Duke Ellington, Duke Jordan, Hank Jones , Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Oscar Peterson, Raymond Fol, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bill Evans , Bobby Scott (piano); George Devens, David Carey (vibraphone); Jack Jennings, Frank Isola, Connie Kay, Charlie Rice, Elvin Jones, Jean-Louis Viale, Grady Tate, Bert Dahlander, Joe Hunt , Milton Banana, Roy Haynes, Sam Woodyard, Candido Camero (drums); Artie Butler, Bobby Rosengarden (percussion). Liner Note Author: Al Young. Recording information: A&R Studios, New York, NY (12/12/1952-02/14/1968); Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA (12/12/1952-02/14/1968); New York, NY (12/12/1952-02/14/1968); Pathe-Magellan Studio, Paris, France (12/12/1952-02/14/1968); Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (12/12/1952-02/14/1968). Illustrator: Amelie Hazard. Photographers: Paul J. Hoeffler; Chuck Stewart. Arrangers: Claus Ogerman; Jimmy Mundy; Richard Evans . The 2005 box set For Lovers: Chet Baker/John Coltrane/Stan Getz brings together all three of the Verve For Lovers compilations into one bargain-priced anthology. While these collections are by no means definitive, career-spanning representations of each artist's recorded output, they are superb single-disc productions perfectly suited for relaxing and romantic afterglow situations. While all three of these musicians could play swinging, uptempo jazz, they were also all universally acclaimed ballad players. As both a trumpeter and singer, Baker (a West Coast cool jazz icon) was especially well suited to playing warm lyrical ballads such as "You're Mine, You" and "The Touch of Your Lips," both included here. Similarly, Baker's saxophonist counterpart Getz had perhaps his biggest commercial success with his laid-back take on the Brazilian bossa nova songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim, many of which are also featured here. Although primarily remembered for his outre sheets-of-sound period of the late '60s, Coltrane was an adept balladeer with a full-bodied saxophone tone and a commanding sense of harmony, traits he employs here on such standards as "After the Rain" and "They Say It's Wonderful," from his classic 1963 album John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. Also included in this set are such well-loved cuts as Baker's "Everything Happens to Me" and "Easy Living," Getz's orchestral theme to the movie Alfie and "If Ever Would I Leave You, and Coltrane's "In a Sentimental Mood" and "Soul Eyes." Ultimately, while die-hard fans will want to seek out the original albums these tracks were culled from, casual listeners in the mood for some stylish, urbane, and classic romantic jazz can't go wrong with For Lovers. ~ Matt Collar