Eliane Elias - Dance Of Time marks Brazilian Jazz pianist, singer, songwriter, composer's 24th album. Released on the Concord Music Group label, this outstanding 12-track release has already earned two Latin Grammy® nominations for Best Latin Jazz Album and Best Engineered Album. The album celebrates the music that influenced Eliane Elias while growing up in Brazil, as well as the 100th anniversary of samba, so put on your dancing shoes and get ready for romance with this spectacularly brilliant release sung in English and Portuguese.
Eliane
Elias - Dance Of Time
Eliane
Elias - Dance of TIme: O
Pato, You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me, Copacabana, Coisa Feita, By Hand
(Em Mãos), Sambou, Little Paradise, Speak Low, Samba De Orly, Na Batucada Da
Vida, An Up Dawn, Not To Cry (Pra Não Chorar)
Personnel: Eliane Elias - vocals, piano, Marcus Teixeira - acoustic guitar
(tracks 1-3, 5-10), Conrado Goys -
electric guitar (track 4), Marcelo
Mariano - electric bass (tracks 1-10), Edu
Ribeiro - drums (tracks 1-3, 5-10), Celso
de Almeida - drums (track 4), Marivaldo dos Santos - percussion (tracks 2, 3, 9), Gustavo di Dalva - percussion (2, 3,
9). Special Guests: Amilton Godov -
piano (track 11), João Bosco -
vocals, guitar (track 4), Mark Kibble
- background vocals (tracks 3, 5, 8), Mike
Mainieri - vibraphone (tracks 2, 7), Randy
Brecker - flugelhorn (track 8), Toquinho
- vocals (track 9, 12), guitar (track 12)
Eliane Elias - Dance Of Time was produced by Eliane Elias, Marc
Johnson, and Steve Rodby on the Concord
Music Group label, and like her previous Made in Brazil release, it was
recorded in Brazil. All songs arranged by Eliane Elias, with background vocals
arranged by Mark Kibble on tracks 3, 5, and 8.

Eliane Elias
Born in
São Paulo, Brazil, Eliane Elias started playing the piano at the age of seven,
and her immense talent helped launch her international music career. Moving to
the United States in 1981, her albums have skyrocketed to critical acclaim. As
a note of point, her 2015 album, Made In Brazil, also released on the
Concord Music Group label, earned her a Grammy®
award for Best Latin Jazz Album, and a Latin
Grammy® nomination for Best Engineered Album.
Dance Of
Time, released in 2017 on the Concord
Music Group label, has earned two Latin Grammy® nominations for Best Latin
Jazz Album and Best Engineered Album. The Dance
Of Time release opens with the lively 1960 song, O Pato, written by Jayme Silva and Neuza Teixeira, that had me
dancing the samba around the room listening to Eliane's fabulous vocals singing
in Portuguese with its catchy piano rhythm, Edu Ribeiro laying down the beat on drums, and Marcelo Mariano on electric bass (who plays on all tracks from 1-10),
and Marcus Teixeira layering in
acoustic guitar.
Track two,
the 1932 song, You're Getting To Be A
Habit With Me written by Harry Warren and Al Dubin has Eliane singing in
English. Joining Eliane and Marcelo
Mariano are Marivaldo dos Santos and Gustavo di Dalva on percussion, and special guest Mike Mainieri on vibraphone, which gives the song its flair
Copacabana, written in 1944 by João de Barro and
Albert Ribeiro, is a Brazilian classic, has a lovely piano and scat intro that
leads to the full band playing interspersed with vibrant piano segments and
Eliane singing in English and Portuguese that make it a standout and beckons an
invitation to travel to Rio de Janeiro to experience its famous beach with its
enchanting lyrics. Playing with Eliane on this track is Marcus Teixeira on acoustic guitar, Edu Ribeiro on drums, Marivaldo
dos Santos and Gustavo di Dalva on
percussion, with special guest Mark
Kibble adding background vocals.
The rhythm
continues with an up-tempo sambo beat with Coisa
Feita, which translates from Portuguese to English as something done or a done
deal, written by João Bosco, Aldir Blanc, and Paulo. Joining Eliane is Conrado Goys on electric guitar, Celso de Almeida on drums, and special
guest João Bosco singing in
Portuguese and playing guitar.
Next up, Eliane
Elias shows off her composing talent with the lovely song, By Hand (Em Mãos), which is a stunning composition. Joining Eliane
on this track is Marcus Teixeira on
acoustic guitar (who also plays on tracks 6 - 10), Edu Ribeiro comes back on drums (and remains for tracks 6 - 10),
and special guest Mark Kibble adds
background vocals.
We went to
Jazz
at Lincoln Center on November 3, 2017 where Eliane Elias was
performing a special program: From Bill
Evans to Brazil. One of the songs she performed was Sambou Sambou written by João Donato in 1965, which was fabulous, and
listening to the recorded version recalled images of Eliane at the piano
playing with a clear vibrancy and contagious energy. Joining Eliane are Marcus Teixeira, Marcelo Mariano, and Edu
Ribeiro.
Slowing the pace, Eliane segues into her elegant composition Little Paradise, with gorgeous piano and
Eliane singing in English. She continues with the slow, sexy, and sultry, 1943
song, Speak Low by Kurt Weill and
Ogden Nash, which has a drum intro by Edu
Ribeiro, which slides into special guest
Randy Brecker on flugelhorn, joined by Eliane on piano.
Samba De Orly written
by Toquinho, Vinicius de Moraes, and Chico Buarque in 1970, picks up the samba
rhythm again and is a calling card for Rio de Janeiro. Stunning piano
interludes make this a standout along with the vocals of special guest Toquinho, and Gustavo di Dalvo on percussion.
Na Batucada Da Vida by Ary
Barroso and Luiz Peixoto is another highlight of the release, with Eliane
singing in Portugese. Once again, Eliane Elias works her magic with her lively
and up-tempo, An Up Dawn, with its
catchy samba rhythm and Elaine scatting her way through this piece, with
special guest Amilton Godoy on
piano.
The
release takes the listener down gently closing with the Toquinho and Eliane
Elias song, Not To Cry (Pra Não Chorar),
a lament with its slow and easy pace with Eliane on piano, and Toquinho on guitar, and both singing in
Portuguese. Eliane notes, "the song was initially composed by Toquinho in 1978
and entitled "Eliane," but it was unfinished. When I reminded him of the tune,
Toquinho was thrilled. We finished the song. He wrote all of the lyrics, which
are nostalgic as they talk about the times we were together with Vinicius,
rehearsing, touring and living a life in music and art."
While
you may not be able to hop on a plane and head to Brazil, with Eliane Elias: Dance Of Time, you can
take a musical journey any time you desire, just close your eyes and slide into
the hypnotic samba beat.
Until next time, keep enjoying the music!
For
information on Eliane Elias and upcoming tour dates, please visit the website: www.ElianeElias.com
Listen to
a teaser of Dance Of Time: http://elianeelias.com/discography/dance-of-time/
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