Harlequin

Keyboardist Dave Grusin and guitarist Lee Ritenour collaborate here to combine Brazilian influences with studio precision. The title track acts as a focus point, merging jazz ideas with the rhythmic warmth of bossa nova.

Coming out during the mid-eighties fusion boom, the album displays the technical polish associated with GRP Records. It remains a representative work of the label aesthetic, emphasizing a smooth sound that defined their output for a decade.