Oi! If you wanted to take a musical journey to Brazil, I can’t think of a better line-up of talent than Ivan Lins, Dianne Reeves, New York Voices, Romero Lubambo, Lee Ritenouer, Dave Grusin, Luciana Souza, Paulinho Da Costa, Grégoire Maret and Chico Pinheiro. That’s precisely who is on the bill for Wednesday night’s Journey to Brazil at the Hollywood Bowl.
Ivan Lins, who will play with both his quartet and his big band, is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and the composer of multiple film scores. His songs have been performed by such artists as Barbra Streisand, Ella Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones, Sarah Vaughan, Chucho Valdés, Betty Carter, Nancy Wilson, Kenny Burrell, Toots Thielemans, Manhattan Transfer, and George Benson.
Lins recently joined Dianne Reeves for a concert of Brazilian music in San Francisco. Reeves is working on an album of all Brazilian music.
He also worked on a project called Harlequin where he provided vocals for this 1985 GRP Records release by Grusin and Ritenour. The latter is opening the show with his World of Brazil project.
Of particular interest in that group is vocalist Luciana Souza whose most recent album was The Book of Longing which found her performing with Chico Pinheiro (and Scott Colley.) She has also performed with Romero Lubambo.
In other words, everyone on this stage seems to have worked with everyone at some point in their career. I happen to know that there will be a Lins/Grusin/Ritenouer reunion as part of Wednesday night’s show.
Bring your caipirinhas, your cangas and your carioca spirit and have a great time. Aproveitem!
Read our interview with Ivan Lins here.
For tickets go here.
Photo of Ivan Lins courtesy of Arc Artists.