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Eliane Elias: San Francisco, CA, September 16. 2011
by Grahame "Buzz" Ware
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 ...
Continue ReadingEliane Elias: Light My Fire
by Bruce Lindsay
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 ...
Continue ReadingEliane Elias: New York, NY, June 2, 2011
by Ernest Barteldes
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 ...
Continue ReadingEliane Elias: Plays Live
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Continue ReadingEliane Elias: Bossa Nova Stories
by Andrew Velez
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 ...
Continue ReadingEliane Elias: Bossa Nova Stories
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
This terrific recording by Eliane Elias salutes the 50th anniversary of bossa nova in a number of explicit ways. For one thing, it contains the three most famous tunes by its most famous composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim ("Girl from Ipanema," “Desafinado," and “Chega de Saudade,"), where Elias paraphrases his familiar piano solos; for another, the generous use of strings is a nod to Jobim's classic albums with arranger Claus Ogerman. “It's a part of the sound," Elias explains, “and it ...
Continue ReadingEliane Elias: Bossa Nova Stories
by Chris May
For most people, bossa nova began in 1962, the year tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's album Jazz Samba (Verve, 1962) and 45rpm pull “Desafinado" stormed up the pop albums and singles charts. That fall, “Desafinado" sold approaching 500,000 copies and by the year's end America had gone bossa nova crazy. But in its birthplace, Brazil, bossa nova emerged round about 1958, and 2008 has been declared the music's 50th anniversary. The year has seen a rash of bossa nova releases, some ...
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