ELIANE ELIAS — Love Stories

Jazz music community with review and forums

ELIANE ELIAS - Love Stories cover
4.00 | 1 rating | 1 review
Buy this album from MMA partners

Album · 2019

Tracklist

1 A Man And A Woman 3:15
2 Baby Come To Me 5:02
3 Bonita 5:52
4 Angel Eyes 5:25
5 Come Fly With Me 5:52
6 The Simplest Things 3:59
7 Silence 4:04
8 Little Boat 5:48
9 The View 4:17
Japanese Bonus Track(Concord Jazz – UCCO-1210, 2019)
10 Incendiando 3:29

Line-up/Musicians

Conductor [Conducted By] – Rob Mathes
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] – Mark Kibble (tracks: 2)
Drums – Celso de Almeida (tracks: 6), Edu Ribeiro (tracks: 1 to 3, 9), Paulo Braga (tracks: 4), Rafael Barata (tracks: 5, 8)
Guitar – Daniel Santiago (tracks: 2), Marcus Teixeira (tracks: 1 to 3, 6, 9), Roberto Menescal (tracks: 8)
Vocals, Piano – Eliane Elias
Bass – Marc Johnson

About this release

Concord Jazz – CJA00140 (US)

Thanks to snobb for the addition and js for the updates

Buy ELIANE ELIAS - LOVE STORIES music

More places to buy jazz & ELIANE ELIAS music

ELIANE ELIAS LOVE STORIES reviews

Specialists/collaborators reviews

No ELIANE ELIASLOVE STORIES reviews posted by specialists/experts yet.

Members reviews

Matti P
Love Stories shows the much awarded Brazilian artist ELIANE ELIAS (b. 1960) in a mature age. She started her recording career in the mid-80's, at first being primarily a pianist. Quite early on Elias has also proved to be a capable band leader, composer, arranger and producer. As a coolly sensual pianist-vocalist she could be compared to Diana Krall. Many albums in her long career have a more or less distinctive Brazilian identity in the use of Portuguese and bossa nova style. This romantic and relatively American-style album is sung almost entirely in English -- 'Little Boat' is bilingual -- but it has bossa vibes to it.

Eliane Elias co-produced the album with her bass-playing husband Marc Johnson and Steve Rodby who's best known as Pat Metheny's bassist (he's not playing here). Guitars and drums are shared by several musicians. Orchestral arrangements are by Rob Mathes. Eliane's voice is still in a very good shape. Like Krall, she's just effortlessly being herself in an understatement approach that can be much more sensual than a more operatic virtuosity.

'A Man and a Woman' originates from the French 1966 film "Un homme et une femme". 'Baby Come to Me', originally recorded by Patti Austin in 1981, is very enjoyable as a smooth jazz version featuring male backing vocals. Equally cute is Antonio Carlos Jobim's 'Bonita' featuring sparse English vocals.

'Angel Eyes' and 'Come Fly With Me' are maybe best remembered as Frank Sinatra numbers. These versions are jazzier in comparison, especially noteworthy is the luxorious piano solo on the latter. Elias and her husband wrote together three songs for this album. 'The Simplest Things' and 'The View' are romantic jazz ballads easy to enjoy. 'Silence' is even in a slower tempo and puts the lush strings shamelessly in the centre.

To say something negative of this finely produced, amicable album, it surely could try to steer a bit further from the Easy Listening music and keep the piano jazz vitality more vibrant (as it does on some pieces). But if you and your sweetheart are looking for openly romantic music with soft and silky arrangements for your tender moments, this is a perfect choice.

Ratings only

No ELIANE ELIAS ratings only posted yet.

Write/edit review

You must be logged in to write or edit review

JMA TOP 5 Jazz ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
A Love Supreme Post Bop
JOHN COLTRANE
Buy this album from our partners
Kind of Blue Cool Jazz
MILES DAVIS
Buy this album from our partners
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Progressive Big Band
CHARLES MINGUS
Buy this album from our partners
Blue Train Hard Bop
JOHN COLTRANE
Buy this album from our partners
My Favorite Things Hard Bop
JOHN COLTRANE
Buy this album from our partners

New Jazz Artists

New Jazz Releases

Solstice Post-Fusion Contemporary
PAOLO RUSSO
Buy this album from MMA partners
Why Not? Eclectic Fusion
ZAKK JONES
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Jazz Online Videos

All I Want For Christmas Is You
DAVID HAZELTINE
js· 1 day ago
Chicken
QUATUOR EBÈNE
js· 2 days ago
Det er en egen lomme
THE LEIF
js· 2 days ago
More videos

New JMA Jazz Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Jazz News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us