| Eliane Elias: Piano,vocal
Marc Johnson: Acoustic bass
Adam Nussboun: Drums
Pianist / singer / songwriter, Eliane Elias is known for her distinctive and immediately recognizable musical style which blends her Brazilian roots, her sensuous, alluring voice with her impressive instrumental jazz, classical and compositional skills. Her performing career began in Brazil at age seventeen, working with Brazilian singer/songwriter Toquinho and the great poet Vinicius de Moraes who was also Antonio Carlos Jobim's co-writer/lyricist. In 1981 she headed for New York and in 1982 landed a spot in the acclaimed group Steps Ahead. Her first album release was a collaboration with Randy Brecker entitled Amanda in 1984. Shortly thereafter her solo career began, spanning over eighteen albums to date; fifteen on Blue Note Records and three on RCA Victor Group. In her work Elias has documented dozens of her own compositions, her outstanding piano playing and arranging, and beautiful vocal interpretations. All of her recordings have garnered a great deal of praise from the critics and all have topped the Billboard and Jazz Radio charts.
In 1988 she was voted Best New Talent by the jazz critics poll of JAZZIZ magazine.
Together with Herbie Hancock in their duet, she was nominated for a Grammy in the "Best Jazz Solo Performance" category for her 1995 release, "Solos and Duets". This recording was hailed by Musician Magazine as "a landmark in piano duo history."
In the 1997 Downbeat Readers Poll, her recording "The Three Americas" was voted Best Jazz Album. Eliane Elias was named in five other categories: Beyond Musician, Best Composer, Jazz Pianist, Female Vocalist, and Musician of the Year.
Her 1998 release "Eliane Elias Sings Jobim" was number one vocal record in Japan's music charts for over three months and awarded the Best Brazilian Album in Jazziz Critics Poll of 1999.
Moreover, as a testament to the quality of her writing, the renowned Danish Radio Big Band has performed and recorded Elias' compositions arranged and conducted by the legendary Bob Brookmeyer. The CD recording of this project is called Impulsive and was released on Stunt Records. IMPULSIVE received a Grammy nomination for "Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album" in 2001.
In the same year, Calle 54, the highly acclaimed documentary film by Oscar winning Spanish director Fernando Trueba, featuring Ms. Elias' performance of "Samba Triste " also received a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album.
In 2002 Ms. Elias recorded with opera sensation Denyce Graves. For this recording, The Lost Days, Eliane arranged two Brazilian classical pieces and wrote an original composition especially for Ms. Graves entitled Haabia Tupi.
Considered one of the great interpreters of Jobim s music, Ms.Elias' has been featured on many concert tributes to Jobim and recorded two albums solely dedicated to the works of the compos er, Plays Jobim and Sings Jobim. In 2002 Ms. Elias signed to RCA Music Group/Bluebird label and released Kissed by Nature . Her second recording for the label, DREAMER , released in 2004 , is a fresh mix of tunes from the American Songbook, Brazilian Bossa Novas and two new originals, all sung in English and Portuguese, supported by a full orchestra . DREAMER received the "Gold Disc Award "and was voted Best Vocal Album in Japan in 2004. It reached #3 on the Pop Charts in France and #4 on the Billboard charts in the USA.
Ms. Elias' most recent cd "AROUND THE CITY" released on RCA Victor in August 2006, merges bits of Bossa Nova, with shades of pop, jazz ,latin and rock and roll. AROUND THE CITY features Ms. Elias' vocals and songwriting in collaborations with producers Andres Levin and Lester Mendez as well as fresh takes on pop classics such as Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va" and Bob Marley's "Jammin".
As a guest artist she has appeared on performances and recordings with Joe Henderson, James Taylor, Michael Franks, Mingus Dynasty, Andy Summers, the Grammy winning Brecker Bros'. Out of the Loop, Earl Klugh, Toots Thielemans Brazil Project , Denyce Graves, Steps Ahead,Calle 54, and most recently, Marc Johnson's "Shades of Jade" on ECM Records, an instrumental recording she co-produced and contributed many of her own original compositions. "Shades of Jade" received the Danish Music Award as Best Foreign Release in March 2006. Ms.Elias was featured in the Thelonious Monk Institute's televised Second Annual "Celebration of America's Music" at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, the JVC Festival with Sting, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Caetano Veloso at Lincoln Center in New York, the televised Piano Grand , a Gala celebration for the 300th Anniversary of the piano in Washington DC. to name a few. |
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