Coltrane for Lovers is a compilation album featuring recordings by American jazz saxophonist-composer John Coltrane, released posthumously on January 23, 2001, by Impulse! Records. Its tracks were recorded during December 1961 to April 1963 at engineer Rudy Van Gelder's recording studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The first in the Verve for Lovers series by Verve Records, the album contains eleven of Coltrane's romantic ballads recorded during his early years with Impulse! Records. The songs feature Coltrane's classic quartet and collaborations with vocalist Johnny Hartman and pianist Duke Ellington. The recordings compiled for Coltrane for Lovers initially received criticism for Read more on Last.fm.
