Love Dance is a jazz standard written in 1980 by Gilson Peranzzetta and Ivan Lins with English lyrics by Paul Williams. It was first recorded by George Benson in 1980 and released around 1980–81, with Ivan Lins later issuing his own version in 1981. The song has since been covered by many great singers, including Sarah Vaughan, Barbra Streisand, Nancy Wilson, and Carmen McRae, and has become one of the most recorded tunes in contemporary music. It sits in the jazz and Brazilian songbook, inviting Latin jazz interpretations, such as the intimate 2020 duet by Dan Costa and Ivan Lins recorded in Lisbon during the pandemic. The tune has appeared on various albums, including Winters In Summer (2011) by Gilson Peranzzetta with Pinky Winters, and is linked to Ivan Lins’s broader discography that includes the early Portuguese version Lembrança from the early 1980s.
