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Eliane is on the cover of Swing journal
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"Something for You" received the "Best Vocal Album of the Year" award for 2007 in Japan ( Swing Journal ) Received the Gold Disc Award 2007 ( Japan ) Eliane is the cover of JAZZIZ Magazine (March issue) . Log on to http://www.jazziz.com/ to read the story. Eliane is also featured in Jazztimes and Down Beat Magazines this month. In early 2007, Eliane re-signed with Blue Note Records/EMI – the company that had been her musical home for sixteen years, and for more than a dozen recordings! Her most recent cd, "SOMETHING FOR YOU: ELIANE ELIAS SINGS AND PLAYS BILL EVANS" is a tribute to the artistry of piano legend Bill Evans. The cd contains newly discovered Evans' works never before recorded. For more information, please click on Biography and on Liner Notes. LONDON TIMES REVIEW (live concert) 4/24/08
Eliane Elias at Ronnie Scott’s, W1 Clive Davis
Some people would prefer to make claims for the grandiose Brad Mehldau, but in terms of swing and emotional subtlety Eliane Elias’s trio is very hard to beat at the moment. (I leave the great Ahmad Jamal out of the equation, as he is clearly in a league of his own.) Her work has reached new depths in recent years. The turning point, perhaps, was the unfussy set of Jobim vocals she recorded about a decade ago. Since then, Elias has grown in confidence as a singer. It’s a sign of her growing appeal that the “house full” sign was on display for her opening night at Ronnie Scott’s. The Brazilian did not disappoint. She and her partners – the bassist Marc Johnson and the drummer Adam Nussbaum – are at the top of their form right now. Even some alarming creaking noises from the house piano in the closing stages could not derail one of the most explosive performances I have heard in the past year. The ghost of Bill Evans loomed large – naturally enough, as he was the subject of Elias’s recent tribute disc, Something for You. That most gentle of pieces Waltz for Debby was dispatched with absolute authority, and the trio shifted to warp speed on a miraculous treatment of You and the Night and the Music. Nussbaum’s playing, in particular, was a master class in controlled aggression. Earlier, Elias had reprised that alternative Brazilian national anthem Chega de Saudade. My only complaint about the performance of Jobim’s Fotografia – a beautiful song that never quite gets played as often as it deserves – was that Elias sang it in English first, and added part of the Portuguese lyrics almost as an afterthought. But on such a satisfying night, that is the smallest of quibbles.
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