Harlequin (Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour album)

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Harlequin
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Studio album by
Released1985 (1985)
Recorded1985
Studio
Genre Jazz
Length46:38
Label GRP
Producer
  • Dave Grusin
  • Lee Ritenour
Dave Grusin chronology
Night-Lines
(1984)
Harlequin
(1985)
Cinemagic
(1987)
Lee Ritenour chronology
Banded Together
(1984)
Harlequin
(1984)
Earth Run
(1986)

Harlequin is a collaborative studio album by American pianist Dave Grusin and American guitarist Lee Ritenour, released in 1985 through GRP Records. The album reached No. 2 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart, and earned a 1986 Grammy Award for Best Arrangement on an Instrumental for "Early A.M. Attitude". Harlequin also earned Grammy nominations for Best Engineered Recording, Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals, and Best Pop Instrumental Performance. In 1988, Perri sisters sampled Grusin's “The Bird” into their track called “The Flight”, from their album “The Flight” under Zebra Records, that song was produced by Michael J. Powell.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Harlequin" (Ivan Lins, Vítor Martins)4:40
2."Early A.M. Attitude" (Dave Grusin)4:58
3."San Ysidro" (Lee Ritenour)4:57
4."Before It's Too Late" (Lins, Martins)5:16
5."Silent Message" (Dave Grusin)6:07
6."Cats of Rio" (Don Grusin)5:15
7."Beyond the Storm" (Lins, Martins)5:36
8."Grid-Lock" (Ritenour)4:02
9."The Bird" (Harvey Mason, Mike Lang)5:47

Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (1985)Peak
position
US Jazz Albums ( Billboard ) [1] 2

References

  1. "Dave Grusin US albums chart history". AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-03-09.