Genre
MPB and jazz-pop. A Noite draws on samba, choro, and Brazilian folk alongside the jazz-inflected pop that defines the EMI period, with harmonica contributions from Mauricio Einhorn adding a distinctive tonal colour to several songs.
Release
Released in 1979 by Odeon/EMI Brasil, on a gatefold LP with a cardboard inner sleeve containing lyrics and credits. It was Ivan Lins's seventh studio album.
Production
Produced by Mariozinho Rocha, with Eduardo Souto Neto as artistic producer. All arrangements and conducting by Gilson Peranzzetta, who also played electric piano, accordion, and piano throughout. Ivan Lins contributed piano, acoustic guitar, clarinet, and lead vocals.
Reception
A Noite was warmly received as a continuation and consolidation of the artistic direction established with Somos Todos Iguais Nesta Noite (1977). AllMusic praised the EMI years as Lins's most commercially and artistically productive period. The album was reissued multiple times and remains a favourite among collectors of 1970s Brazilian music.
Ivan Lins
Ivan Guimarães Lins (born June 16, 1945, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian singer, pianist, and songwriter, the most covered Brazilian artist abroad and one of the most internationally influential composers in the history of MPB. A self-taught pianist and chemical engineering graduate, he had his first hit with "Madalena," recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. His distinctive harmonic language — at once refined and accessible, shaped by jazz, bossa nova, and samba — earned him a global following spanning jazz and pop. Among the artists who have covered his songs are Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, George Benson, Quincy Jones, Sting, the Manhattan Transfer, Patti Austin, and Barbra Streisand. His album "Dinorah, Dinorah," from Somos Todos Iguais Nesta Noite, won a Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Arrangement in 1981 as recorded by George Benson; "Velas" won the same prize in 1982 as recorded by Quincy Jones; and in 2004 Sting won the Grammy for Best Pop Male Vocal Performance with Lins's "She Walks This Earth." His Cantando Histórias (2005) made him the first Brazilian artist to win the Latin Grammy for Album of the Year. He divides his time between Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon.
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