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This article is about the album. For the video game character, see Ganyu (Genshin Impact). For the song, see Sweet Rain (Wolf Howl Harmony song).

Sweet Rain
Cover, featuring Getz and a woman
Studio album by
Stan Getz
ReleasedLast week of July 1967[1]
RecordedMarch 21 and 30, 1967
StudioVan Gelder, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length37:29
LabelVerve
V6-8693
ProducerCreed Taylor
Stan Getz chronology
Voices
(1966) 		Sweet Rain
(1967) 		What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David
(1968)

Sweet Rain is a jazz album by Stan Getz, released on the Verve record label in 1967. It features the tenor saxophonist in a quartet setting with Chick Corea, who was just 25 at the time, on piano; Ron Carter on bass; and Grady Tate on drums.[2]

Repertoire

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The album is bookended by two Corea originals, "Litha" and "Windows". Corea had first recorded both of them the previous year, the former on his debut album, Tones for Joan's Bones, and the latter with Mercer Ellington under the title "Uph" and then with Hubert Laws for the album Laws' Cause, which wasn't released until 1969. Corea subsequently recorded "Windows" a number of other times.[3] The title track, by Michael Gibbs, "become a standard after Getz's tender treatment here".[4] The program is rounded out with performances of "O Grande Amor" by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with whom Getz had collaborated on his most famous album, Getz/Gilberto, and Dizzy Gillespie's "Con Alma". Jazz critic Ted Gioia called this an "excellent recording" of the Gillespie jazz standard, with "the contrasting and evolving rhythmic conceptions of the different members of the band. ... Getz thrives in this labyrinth, delivering a poised, fluid solo."[5]

Reissues

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Verve Records originally released the album on compact disc in 1983.[6] A remastered version in digipak format appeared in 2008.[7] Both CD editions feature only the original five tracks from the 1967 LP.

Reception

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The AllMusic review by Steve Huey states that Sweet Rain is "one of Stan Getz's all-time greatest albums" and that it's "his first major artistic coup after he closed the book on his bossa nova period, featuring an adventurous young group that pushed him to new heights in his solo statements." Huey also writes, "The neat trick of Sweet Rain is that the advanced rhythm section work remains balanced with Getz's customary loveliness and lyricism. Indeed, Getz plays with a searching, aching passion throughout the date .... Technical perfectionists will hear a few squeaks on the LP's second half (Getz's drug problems were reputedly affecting his articulation somewhat), but Getz was such a master of mood, tone, and pacing that his ideas and emotions are communicated far too clearly to nit-pick. Corea's spare, understated work leaves plenty of room for Getz's lines and the busily shifting rhythms of the bass and drums, heard to best effect in Corea's challenging opener 'Litha.'" Huey concludes, "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."[4]

Gioia, in his History of Jazz, calls the album "a major musical statement", on which Corea was already "a mature piano stylist and composer", with "a clean, sharply articulated piano sound, a mix of modal and impressionist harmonies, and a driving on-top-of-the-beat rhythmic feel".[8]

Steve Wyzard's retrospective review for Jazz Music Archives says, "Sweet Rain would do nothing less than epitomize Stan's 'sound' for the rest of his career: smaller ensembles, unassuming formats, and the wistful, ethereal tones that only he could produce. ... [E]veryone is given ample soloing space, with Stan soaring above it all."[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarStar[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz RecordingsStarStarStarHalf star[9]

Track listing

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  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

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Musicians

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Additional personnel

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Charts

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Chart performance for Paradise State of Mind
Chart (1967) Peak
position
US Top LPs (Billboard)[10] 195
US Jazz LPs (Billboard)[10] 5
Chart (2024) Peak
position
Croatian International Albums (HDU)[11] 20

References

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  1. ^ Billboard July 22, 1967
  2. ^ a b Wyzard, Steve. "Stan Getz – Sweet Rain (Review)". jazzmusicarchives.com. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  3. ^ "Chick Corea Discography". jazzdisco.com. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  4. ^ a b c Huey, Steve. "Sweet Rain – Stan Getz | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  5. ^ Gioia, Ted (2012). The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. Oxford University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4.
  6. ^ Sweet Rain. Stan Getz Quartet. Verve. PS 15054. 1993.
  7. ^ Sweet Rain. Stan Getz Quartet. Verve. V6-8693. 2008.
  8. ^ Gioia, Ted (1997). The History of Jazz. Oxford University Press. pp. 287 & 368. ISBN 0-19-512653-X.
  9. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 546. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  10. ^ a b "Sweet Rain – Stan Getz | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  11. ^ "Lista prodaje 39. tjedan 2024" (in Croatian). HDU. September 16, 2024. Archived from the original on October 2, 2024. Retrieved October 2, 2024.