Genre
MPB and jazz-pop. The album exemplifies the sophisticated harmonic construction that distinguishes Lins from his contemporaries — rich chord voicings, subtle metric shifts, and an unusually refined balance between melodic immediacy and jazz complexity — across eleven songs co-written principally with his longtime lyricist partner Vitor Martins, delivered with the warmth and intimacy of his distinctive baritone.
Release
Released in 1977 by Odeon/EMI Brasil. It was Ivan Lins's sixth studio album and marked the beginning of his most celebrated and commercially successful period at EMI, during which he released four consecutive albums between 1977 and 1980.
Production
Produced by Mariozinho Rocha, with Milton Miranda as artistic director and Eduardo Souto Neto as executive producer.
Reception
The album is regarded by critics as one of the finest in Lins's discography and a high point of his EMI period, praised for the consistency of its songwriting and the sophistication of its arrangements. The album was later reissued in Japan by EMI Toshiba in 2002 and included in the Brazilian Grande Discoteca Brasileira series in 2011. The song "Dinorah, Dinorah" was later recorded by George Benson and earned a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Arrangement in 1981.
Ivan Lins
Ivan Guimarães Lins (born June 16, 1945, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian singer, pianist, and songwriter widely regarded as one of the most important composers in the history of MPB and among the most internationally influential Brazilian musicians. A self-taught pianist who graduated in chemical engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro before devoting himself to music, he had his first hit with "Madalena," recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. His sophisticated harmonic language — strongly influenced by jazz and bossa nova — made him the most covered Brazilian artist abroad: his songs have been recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, George Benson, Quincy Jones, Sting, the Manhattan Transfer, and dozens of other international artists. He became the first Brazilian and first Portuguese-language artist to win the Latin Grammy for Album of the Year, for Cantando Histórias (2005). He currently divides his time between Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon.
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