Ivan Lins - My Heart Speaks [CD]

Resonance Records

£13.77

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: HCD-1040
Barcode: 0617270123300
Release Date: 15 Sep 2023
Genre: Jazz

 Ivan Lins is one of the most treasured and recorded Brazilian composers in the world, and a melodist with few equals. The winner of four Latin Grammy Awards, Lins has recorded nearly fifty albums since 1970; countless songs, most notably including ‘Madalena’ and ‘Começar de Novo’ (To Begin Again), that have become standards in his country.
 ‘Love Dance’, co-written with his longtime arranger, Gilson Peranzzetta, and lyricist Paul Williams, is Lins’ English language classic. Its performers include Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Mark Murphy, Shirley Horn, Blossom Dearie, Carmen McRae, George Benson, Nancy Wilson, Barbara Streisand, and Quincy Jones, who helped manoeuvre Lins’ US breakthrough in the early 1980s.
 Resonance Records now release the first Ivan Lins studio album in over nine years, ‘My Heart Speaks’, the most extravagantly lush album of Lins’ career. Performing rare gems from his catalogue, the composer is backed by the 91-piece symphony of Tbilisi, capital of the Republic of Georgia. Kuno Schmid, the extraordinarily prolific Los Angeles-based composer and arranger, wrote the orchestral charts. One of Schmid’s fans was his legendary predecessor, Johnny Mandel, who earned one of his five Grammys for an arrangement of Lins’ ‘Velas’, featured on Quincy Jones’ album, ‘The Dude’.
 ‘My Heart Speaks’ holds a feast of discoveries for Lins’ fans. It boasts appearances by Randy Brecker, Dianne Reeves, Jane Monheit, and exciting newcomer, Tawanda, winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. The liner notes, containing extensive commentary by Lins, were written by James Gavin, the acclaimed biographer of George Michael, Peggy Lee, Chet Baker and Lena Horne, and the two-time winner of ASCAP’s Deems Taylor-Virgil Thomson Award for excellence in music journalism.

Tracklisting
Renata Maria - Ivan Lins
The Heart Speaks (Antes E Depois) (English Version) - Ivan Lins feat. Dianne Reeves
Nao Ha Porque (There's No Reason Why) - Ivan Lins
I'm Not Alone (Anjo De Mim) (English Version) - Ivan Lins feat. Tawanda
Congada Blues - Ivan Lins
E Isso Acontece (This Happens) - Ivan Lins
Easy Going - Ivan Lins
Corpos (Bodies) - Ivan Lins
Missing Miles - Ivan Lins
feat. Randy Brecker
Rio (Rio De Maio) (English Version) - Ivan Lins feat. Jane Monheit
Nada Sem Voce (Nothing Without You) - Ivan Lins