High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Coltrane for Lovers is a posthumous compilation album by American jazz musician John Coltrane, released January 23, 2001 on Impulse! Records in the United States. Its recordings 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 back up Coltrane`s classic quartet and collaborations with vocalist Johnny Hartman and pianist Duke Ellington.