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 playing. Besides that, the tone, the sonority that he had on the piano."
Longtime AAJ Contributor R.J. DeLuke spoke with Elias about her new album, Something for You (Angel, 2007), which pays tribute to the late Evans, unearthing lost treasure and the recording process.
Check out Eliane Elias: Something for Bill (Evans) at AAJ today!
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