OCT 16-19 | 2025-26 SEASON
Oct 18 - Oct 19, 2025
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
Ivan Lins reigns as the preeminent Brazilian composer of his generation, on par with icons including Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil and Antônio Carlos Jobim. He celebrates the music from his recent recording project My Heart Speaks with these two nights of magic.
Ever since legendary jazz diva Elis Regina turned Lins’s “Magdelana” into a standard in 1970 he’s occupied a singular niche among his Brazilian peers when it comes to crafting songs with sumptuously irresistible jazz harmonies.
A gifted pianist, vocalist and pop star in his own right, Lins is the only Brazilian artist to ever win a Latin GRAMMY for album of the year (for 2004’s Cantando Histórias). But in jazz circle’s he’s best known as a major contributor to the repertoire as the composer of tunes recorded by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Shirley Horn, Dianne Reeves, Patti Austin, Eliane Elias, Barbra Streisand, and Quincy Jones, who helped Lins crossover to U.S. audiences in the early ‘80s. Terence Blanchard was so smitten with his music that he collaborated with Lins on the dreamy 1996 album The Heart Speaks.
Performing with an international cast top jazz musicians on a night dedicated to his acclaimed 2023 Resonance Records album My Heart Speaks, Lins interprets his own songbook with unforgettable sensitivity and Brazilian soul.
Ivan Lins is the preeminent Brazilian composer of his generation, on par with icons including Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. His first SFJAZZ performance in over a decade celebrates his newest album, My Heart Speaks.
Arguably the best Brazilian song writer since Antônio Carlos Jobim.
los angeles times on ivan lins
Arguably the best Brazilian song writer since Antônio Carlos Jobim.
los angeles times on ivan lins
Personnel
Ivan Lins piano
Others TBA
Lins is the genius of lyrical music in Brazil, a magician with harmony... on the same par as Gershwin, Kern, Rodgers and Hart, as well as Debussy and Ravel.
Herbie Mann
Personnel
Ivan Lins piano
Others TBA
Lins is the genius of lyrical music in Brazil, a magician with harmony... on the same par as Gershwin, Kern, Rodgers and Hart, as well as Debussy and Ravel.
Herbie Mann
Watch & Listen
Ivan Lins
The Heart Speaks
Ivan Lins
Renata Maria
Ivan Lins
The Heart Speaks
Ivan Lins
Renata Maria