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ONE WAY Recommends [Issue
#22] Eliane Elias By
Lynne Bronstein
Around the City
(CD
RCA Victor)
You can’t keep from
dancing to Eliane Elias’s Around The City. The Brazilian-born pianist/singer/composer
has made her reputation in jazz with her combination of cool, gentle vocals, and
fiery keyboard work. On this, her 18th album, she balances vocals and instrumentation,
Portuguese and English, covers and original songs. But whatever Elias does, she
makes her own. Her version of Bob Marley’s “Jammin’” turns the familiar reggae
classic into a sultry jazz jam with a dark undertone. She brings Beck’s “Tropicalia”
back to its source sound (the 1960’s soul-jazz movement in Sao Paulo) and aces
the difficult phrasing required for the Brazilian pop favorite “Chiclete Com Banana”
(a literally sticky lyric in Portuguese). Her own contributions include the introspective
title song, the mysterious ode to a neighbor, “A Vizinha do Lado,” and the two-part
“Segredos” (Secrets) on which she lets loose on the ivories. If Jobim’s music
evoked Brazilian days on the beach, Eliane Elias evokes the Brazilian nights,
carefree nights spent under the stars-and you just have to dance to this music.
You can’t keep from
dancing to Eliane Elias’s Around The City. The Brazilian-born pianist/singer/composer
has made her reputation in jazz with her combination of cool, gentle vocals, and
fiery keyboard work. On this, her 18th album, she balances vocals and instrumentation,
Portuguese and English, covers and original songs. But whatever Elias does, she
makes her own. Her version of Bob Marley’s “Jammin’” turns the familiar reggae
classic into a sultry jazz jam with a dark undertone. She brings Beck’s “Tropicalia”
back to its source sound (the 1960’s soul-jazz movement in Sao Paulo) and aces
the difficult phrasing required for the Brazilian pop favorite “Chiclete Com Banana”
(a literally sticky lyric in Portuguese). Her own contributions include the introspective
title song, the mysterious ode to a neighbor, “A Vizinha do Lado,” and the two-part
“Segredos” (Secrets) on which she lets loose on the ivories. If Jobim’s music
evoked Brazilian days on the beach, Eliane Elias evokes the Brazilian nights,
carefree nights spent under the stars-and you just have to dance to this music.
