Harlequin (album)

Harlequin
Studio album by Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour
Released	1985 (1985)
Recorded	1985
Studio	Starlight Studio, Burbank California
Genre	Jazz
Length	46:38
Label	GRP
Producer	Dave Grusin, Lee Ritenour
Dave Grusin chronology
Banded Together (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.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
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.	"GridLock" (Ritenour)	4:02
9.	"The Bird" (Harvey Mason, Mike Lang)	5:47

Personnel

• Dave Grusin – keyboards, conductor
• Lee Ritenour – guitar
• Ivan Lins – vocals
• Jimmy Johnson – bass
• Abraham Laboriel – bass
• Carlos Vega – drums
• Harvey Mason – drums
• Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
• Alex Acuña – percussion

Charts

Chart (1985)	Peak position
Billboard Jazz Albums	2

External links

• Dave Grusin-Harlequin at Discogs
• Dave Grusin-Harlequin at AllMusic