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Article: Live Review

TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival 2009

by Alain Londes
July 10, 2009

TD Canada Trust Toronto International Jazz Festival Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 26-July 5, 2009 The TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival enjoyed its 23rd edition this year with a structure similar to that of recent years. The Mainstage concerts in front of City Hall were a nightly focal point as well ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Vaughn Wiester / Doncaster Jazz Orchestra / Kluvers Big Band / Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2009

Vaughn Wiester's Famous Jazz Orchestra Dreams Come True COJazz 2009 If you're going to dream, you may as well dream big, in glorious Technicolor with stereophonic sound. As Vaughn Wiester knows, there are times when Dreams Come True. Wiester's vision of leading his own big band is a ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Blue Note at 70

by Joel Roberts
February 14, 2009

No label in jazz can match the history and legacy of Blue Note Records. Since its founding in New York in 1939 by German emigre Alfred Lion, Blue Note has been associated with an amazing assortment of jazz luminaries including Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Jimmy Smith, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, ...

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Article: Album Review

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 ...

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News: Recording

Eliane Elias Releases New Album on Blue Note Records

January 14, 2009

Released this week via Blue Note/EMI in celebration of the 50th anniversary of bossa nova, the New York-based Eliane Elias pays tribute to the music of her homeland on her 21st recording, Bossa Nova Stories; a sublime 14- song collection that captures the cool and alluring spirit of bossa nova. Recorded at London’s historic Abbey Road ...

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Something For You: Eliane Elias Sings and Plays Bill Evans

By Eliane Elias

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: You and the Night and the Music; Here's Something for You; A Sleepin' Bee; But Not for Me; Waltz for Debby; Five; Blue in Green; Detour Ahead; Minha (All Mine); My Foolish Heart; But Beautiful/Here's That Rainy Day; I Love My Wife; For Nenette; Evanesque; Solar; After All; Here's Something for You (intro).

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Bossa Nova Stories

By Eliane Elias

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: he Girl From Ipanema; Chega De Saudade; The More I See You; They Can't Take That Away From Me; Desafinado; Estate (Summer); Day In Day Out; I'm Not Alone (Who Loves You?); Too Marvellous For Words; Superwoman; Falsa Baiana; Minha Saudade; A Ra (The Frog); Day By Day.

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Article: Album Review

Eliane Elias: Bossa Nova Stories

Read "Bossa Nova Stories" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
December 12, 2008

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 ...

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Eliane Elias: Bossa Nova Stories

Read "Bossa Nova Stories" reviewed by Chris May

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 ...

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News: Music Industry

The New Yorker's 100 Essential Jazz Albums

May 15, 2008

While finishing “Bird-Watcher," a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector. First, I asked Schaap to assemble the list, but, after a ...