Jazz Articles about Eliane Elias

Eliane Elias: Bossa Nova Stories

by Chris May
November 22, 2008

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 ...

Eliane Elias: Something For You: Eliane Elias Sings and Plays Bill Evans

by Dan McClenaghan
March 19, 2008

Everybody digs Bill Evans, the pianist who changed the face of the piano trio in jazz with his Sunday at the Village Vanguard (Riverside Records, 1961) and Waltz for Debby (Riverside Records, 1961). These were the albums that brought a then unheard of level of interaction between the pianist and his trio mates, bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian.Things haven't been the same since. There are countless piano trios that have been influenced by that groundbreaking group.

Eliane Elias: Something [Historic] for You at Dizzy's

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
January 31, 2008

Eliane Elias Dizzy's Club Coca Cola New York, New York Wednesday, January 23, 2008 The other night at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, high above the whirling traffic of Columbus Circle, there was a full moon and a full house as the Eliane Elias Trio played in support of their Bill Evans tribute CD, Something for You (Blue Note, 2008). The innovations of pianist William ...

Eliane Elias: Something for Bill (Evans)

by R.J. DeLuke
January 29, 2008

The brilliant pianist Eliane Elias, who hails from the land of so much beautiful indigenous music, but calls American jazz her first love, has always been touched by the music of Bill Evans. It started at childhood.

“The first that I remember, I was about ten or eleven years old," she says, recalling listening to trio records her mother had around the house. “I was really enchanted by his approach to harmony and also his melodic and lyrical ...

Eliane Elias: Around the City

by Bridget A. Arnwine
September 30, 2006

Eliane Elias is comfortable in her own skin. The pianist/composer learned to play piano in her native Sao Paulo at the age of seven and began transcribing jazz recordings by the age of twelve. For years she worked to introduce herself through her music, relying on her natural proclivity for infusing the music she loves with her cultural self.

Elias has maintained an unyielding commitment as a pianist/composer who just so happens to be a Brazilian female, in an industry ...

Marc Johnson: Shades of Jade

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 5, 2006

Il contrabbassista Marc Johnson conosce bene l'arte di attendere l'ispirazione senza piegarsi alla ignobile fretta dettata dalle strategie di mercato. Questo Shades of Jade arriva dopo un periodo di silenzio quasi sabbatico e celebra in particolar modo un sodalizio importante con la pianista brasiliana Eliane Elias che è certamente la voce principale che emerge dai dieci brani che compongono questo album. Non mancano altri contributi importanti come quelli di Joe Lovano al sax tenore e di John Scofield alla chitarra ...

Eliane Elias: Sings Jobim

by Keiran Smalley
June 19, 2005

What the world needs right now is another CD of Jobim covers, right? Admit it: this isn't the most original idea ever. I am starting to lose count of how many people have covered “Desafinado, and when you consider that Eliane Elias is possessed of a paper-thin voice a la Astrud Gilberto, you have to again wonder. What is the point? Is there anything new to say here?

Well, the good news is that there is a point, and I ...