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Eliane Elias: I Thought About You: A Tribute to Chet Baker

Read "I Thought About You: A Tribute to Chet Baker" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 23, 2013

It is tempting to consider Chet Baker hommages like Jeff Baker's excellent Baker Sings Chet (OA2, 2004) or John Proulx's sublime Baker's dozen: Remembering Chet Baker (MAXJAZZ, 2009) superior to the real item. So fractured is our picture of Baker that our full appreciation of him is clouded by his extra-musical proclivities. But it is not exactly that. Baker's vibratoless trumpet and vocals, as well as, his limited technical abilities are acquired tastes, but once acquired are generally rewarding to ...

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Marc Johnson - Eliane Elias: Swept Away

Read "Swept Away" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 22, 2013

La pianista Eliane Elias è nota da tempo sui palcoscenici internazionali, a cominciare dalla sua collaborazione con i leggendari Steps Ahead all'inizio degli anni '80. Dalla bossa nova con cui è cresciuta ai tanti album da leader, sia come pianista che cantante, l'artista brasiliana ha saputo consolidare le proprie credenziali anche grazie ai numerosi dischi incisi per la Blue Note. Dopo la sua partecipazione in Shades of Jade (ECM) del contrabbassista e compagno di vita Marc Johnson, Swept Away rappresenta ...

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Eliane Elias: San Francisco, CA, September 16. 2011

by Grahame "Buzz" Ware
September 28, 2011

Eliane Elias Yoshi's San Francisco, CA September 16, 2011 Sometimes you can never anticipate a peak experience. Oh, sure there can be plenty of expectation and great intentions but when it comes, you're blown away and gone. This is what happened at Yoshi's, San Francisco, where Eliane Elias came as advertised, and then much, much more. Elias is beautiful, mature, innocent and vivacious with thick natural blond hair, and she's one helluva a composer and ...

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Eliane Elias: Light My Fire

Read "Light My Fire" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
August 28, 2011

In a career that spans around 30 years and over 20 albums, singer and pianist Eliane Elias has come to epitomize a cool, sophisticated jazz sensibility, especially on the bossa nova songs of her native Brazil. On Light My Fire, she set out to extend the range of styles and grooves in her music and, in so doing, mixes Brazilian music with a couple of jazz standards and one or two famous pop and rock songs. The ...

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Eliane Elias: New York, NY, June 2, 2011

by Ernest Barteldes
June 16, 2011

Eliane EliasDizzy's Club Coca-ColaNew York, NYJune 2, 2011 Pianist/vocalist Eliane Elias opened her set at New York's Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, in celebration of Light My Fire (Concord, 2011) with “Ladeira," a Gilberto Gil-penned instrumental samba with a very syncopated drive. The tune was more like a warm-up, where her solid band--drummer Rafael Barata, percussionist Marivaldo Santos, acoustic guitarist Rubens de La Corte and bassist Marc Johnson--seemed to stretch its muscles for what was to ...

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Eliane Elias: Plays Live

Read "Plays Live" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 27, 2011

Quando un pianista o una pianista (come in questo caso) può sedersi sullo sgabello avendo come partner il bassista Marc Johnson e il batterista Joey Baron, state certi che l'occasione non andrà sprecata. Se poi il bassista è anche il partner nella vita, tanto meglio. La pianista brasiliana Eliane Elias conferma l'assunto precedente in questo bel concerto al Bimhuis di Amsterdam di fine maggio 2002 che dopo tanti anni viene pubblicato dalla Blue Note. Il repertorio è piuttosto convenzionale e ...

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Eliane Elias: Bossa Nova Stories

Read "Bossa Nova Stories" reviewed by Andrew Velez

by Andrew Velez
January 21, 2009

I thought I never needed to hear another version of “The Girl from Ipanema." Ever. Herewith my appreciation to Eliane Elias for proving me wrong. Bossa nova turns 50 this year, hearkening back to Brazil in 1958, when guitarist Joao Gilberto recorded Jobim and de Moraes' seminal “Chega de Saudade." Characterized by samba-derived rhythms and soft-spoken, non-vibrato vocals, a movement was launched that blended Brazilian sounds with jazz and classical European harmony. There could hardly be a ...