Marc Johnson, Eliane Elias – Swept Away (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Marc Johnson, Eliane Elias – Swept Away (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:30 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Double-bassist Marc Johnson, pianist Eliane Elias, drummer Joey Baron and saxophonist Joe Lovano are a stellar quartet who have released their latest album, Swept Away. The music is sensuous, poetic and engaging. The album features compositions by Elias which range from the easy-flowing “B Is For Butterfly” to the romantic “Moments.” Johnson dazzles with his evocative “Midnight Blue”.

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Eliane Elias – I Thought About You (A Tribute To Chet Baker) (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eliane Elias – I Thought About You (A Tribute To Chet Baker) (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:47 minutes | 1017 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz

I Thought About You (A Tribute To Chet Baker) is the sultry pianist/vocalist’s sophomore album for Concord Jazz. The renowned musician wraps her acclaimed jazz and bossa nova style around classics associated with iconic jazz trumpeter, Chet Baker. Elias interprets classics including “I Thought About You,” “You Don’t Know What Love Is,” “Let’s Get Lost,” “That Old Feeling” and much more. She is joined by Steve Cardenas, Rafael Barata, Victor Lewis, Marivaldo dos Santos, Marc Johnson, Randy Brecker and Oscar Castro-Neves.

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Eliane Elias – Music From Man Of La Mancha (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Eliane Elias – Music From Man Of La Mancha (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:29 minutes | 605 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz

Music From Man of La Mancha is a 1964 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion, and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman’s non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes and his 17th-century masterpiece Don Quixote.

The original 1965 Broadway production ran for 2,328 performances and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The musical has been revived four times on Broadway, becoming one of the most enduring works of musical theatre. The principal song, “The Impossible Dream”, became a standard.

Eliane previously recorded these tracks at the request of the original composer, Mitch Leigh, Guest artists are talented and GRAMMY Award-winning jazz artists Marc Johnson (bass), Satoshi Takeshi (drums), Manolo Badrena (percussion), Eddie Gomez (bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums).

“Pianist Eliane Elias follows her Latin Grammy win for 2017’s magnificent Dance of Time with this set of tunes from the iconic musical Man of La Mancha. During the mid-’90s, Elias was approached by Mitch Leigh, the Tony-winning composer of her musical; he’d followed her career and greatly admired her work. Accompanied by Neil Warner, arranger for the original musical, he commissioned the pianist to rearrange songs from the show. Elias was given complete freedom to choose which songs she wished to record. She hired two rhythm sections: One featured drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Eddie Gomez; the other bassist Marc Johnson, drummer Satoshi Takeishi, and master percussionist Manolo Badrena (who plays with both groups). Elias and her sidemen recorded nine songs live in studio. Unfortunately, the completed album was shelved due to contractual issues and seemed doomed to obscurity. Leigh passed in 2014 and never saw its release. Concord rescued the album and added it to their catalog some 23 years after recording.

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Eliane Elias – Mirror Mirror (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eliane Elias – Mirror Mirror (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:49 minutes | 866 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Candid

Singer/Pianist Eliane Elias to Release New Album “Mirror Mirror” with Chick Corea And Chucho Vald’es on Sept. 10th, 2021

Multi GRAMMY(R) winning pianist/singer/composer Eliane Elias’ latest album MIRROR MIRROR on Candid Records is a lifelong musical dream come true-an extraordinary piano duet recording of Eliane with the late legendary jazz great Chick Corea, and famed Cuban pianist Chucho Vald’es. While her highly successful recordings have predominantly featured her alluring voice and piano mastery, the piano has always been her first love and working with these two incredible icons was a rare opportunity to record in a two-piano setting, something she hasn’t done in many years.

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Eliane Elias – Love Stories (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eliane Elias – Love Stories (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:39 minutes | 924 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz

Since moving to the United States in 1981, it was only in 2015 with Made in Brazil and again in 2017 with Dance of Time that Eliane Elias returned to her native Brazil to record the two albums. The São Paulo singer-pianist-composer’s strength lies in transporting the listener to the seductive atmospheres of Brazil, even when the repertoire is rather well-known… very well-known in fact. With this aptly named Love Stories, Elias showcases her skills not only as a brilliant jazz pianist and sensual singer but also as an arranger, composer and producer! Sung almost entirely in English, this 2019 vintage blends three original pieces with seven covers of hits from the golden age of bossa nova and the sixties, popularized by the likes of Antonio Carlos Jobim or Frank Sinatra. Despite this, Love Stories is not an excessively nostalgic record. This collection of love songs exhibits the timeless grace of songs from the 20th century by Jobim with the great arranger Claus Ogerman. And with the very popular (maybe too popular?) compositions, such as the theme from Francis Lai’s film Un homme et une femme, Eliane Elias once again succeeds in fascinating us. Subtlety, vulnerability, finesse, refinement and grace: the Paulista demonstrates why these words are so often attached to her name.

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Eliane Elias – Dance Of Time (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eliane Elias – Dance Of Time (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:40 minutes | 1020 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz

Two years after seducing fans with her GRAMMY-winning Made in Brazil (Best Latin Jazz Album), Eliane was back in the studios in New York and her native Brazil to work on Dance of Time. Eliane’s style of samba owes a great deal to choro, a slower, jazz and tango influenced style of samba that emerged in the 1930s. It extended range of instruments and beyond the traditional percussion, guitar, and cavaquinho (a miniature guitar with a sound like a picked banjo) to take in the piano, flugelhorn, and trumpet.

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Eliane Elias – Made In Brazil (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eliane Elias – Made In Brazil (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:44 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz

Pianist/singer/songwriter Eliane Elias is known for her distinctive and immediately recognizable musical style which blends her Brazilian roots and her sensuous, alluring voice with her virtuosic instrumental jazz, classical and compositional skills.

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Eliane Elias – Quietude (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eliane Elias – Quietude (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:34 minutes | 724 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Candid

Hot off her 2022 GRAMMY win for Best Latin Jazz Album, Mirror Mirrorwith Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés, superstar pianist, singer, composer and arranger Eliane Elias returns to her Brazilian bossa nova roots with her forthcoming album Quietude. A luscious collection showcasing her alluring vocals with her virtuosic instrumental jazz and piano mastery, the recording features songs by such legendary composers as Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Dorival Caymmi along with Dori Caymmi who joins her on vocals for the closing track of the recording

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