About This Song
About "Theme From "The Sand Pebbles" (And We Were Lovers)" by The Howard Roberts Quartet
Roberts reimagines the 'Sand Pebbles' theme as a jazz-guitar reverie. The romance of 'And We Were Lovers' is rendered in warm, woody tones—nostalgic but never saccharine. Beneath the melody's sweep, a quiet melancholy lingers, like a tide pulling away from shore.