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It Could Only Happen with You

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Released
  
1974

Artist
  
Duke Pearson

Label
  
Blue Note Records

Length
  
34:07

Release date
  
1974

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
February 13 & April 10, 1970

Similar
  
Duke Pearson albums, Jazz albums

It Could Only Happen with You is the final album by American pianist and arranger Duke Pearson featuring performances recorded in 1970 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1974.

Contents

Reception

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.

Track listing

  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 A & R Studio, New York City on February 13 (track 8) & April 10 (tracks 1-7), 1970

    • Personnel

  • 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)

    • Songs

    1Gira - Girou (Round And Round)7:20
    2Hermeto5:42
    3Lost In The Stars3:29

    References

    It Could Only Happen with You Wikipedia
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