It Only Happens Every Time

It Only Happens Every Time is a 1977 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra with singer Monica Zetterlund in Helsinki and Stockholm and released by EMI in Europe and by Inner City Records in the US.

It Only Happens Every Time
Studio album by Monica Zetterlund, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra
Released	1978
Recorded	1977 August, Helsinki/Stockholm
Genre	Jazz
Label	EMI/Inner City
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra chronology
Live in Munich (1976) It Only Happens Every Time (1977) Body and Soul (1978)
Monica Zetterlund chronology
Hej, man! (1975) It Only Happens Every Time (1977) Ur Svenska Ords Arkiv (1982)

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Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

LP side A:

1. "It Only Happens Every Time"
2. "Long Daddy Green"
3. "Silhouette"
4. "He Was Too Good To Me"

LP side B:

1. "The Groove Merchant"
2. "Love To One Is One To Love"
3. "Happy Again"
4. "The Second Time Around"

Personnel

• Monica Zetterlund – vocals
• Thad Jones – flugelhorn
• Mel Lewis – drums
• Harold Danko – piano
• Rufus Reid – bass
• Jerry Dodgion – saxophone, flute
• Ed Xiques – saxophone, flute, clarinet
• Rich Perry – saxophone, flute, clarinet
• Dick Oatts – saxophone, flute, clarinet
• Pepper Adams – saxophone
• Frank Gordon – trumpet
• Earl Gardner – trumpet
• Jeff Davis – trumpet
• Larry Moses – trumpet
• Earl McIntyre – trombone
• John Mosca – trombone
• Clifford Adams – trombone
• Billy Campbell – trombone