Eliane Elias
Eliane Elias [ Elian elias ] ( born March 19, 1960 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian pianist, singer and composer.
Life and work
At the age of six, she began playing the piano: Your mother was a classical pianist with a passion for jazz. Having already started with 12 years ago, to make transcriptions of jazz pianists and 15 years were at the music school she visited even lessons she began at age 17, perform self-composed jazz pieces. Musical influences in jazz were for them Bud Powell, Art Tatum and Bill Evans. She toured with guitarist Toquinho and Vinícius de Moraes. On a European tour in 1981 and was encouraged during a vacation in Paris by Eddie Gomez, to go to New York. After an album with Steps Ahead and then with her husband Randy Brecker, which was named after their daughter Amanda, she began in 1986 to work even as a bandleader with his own groups. This year, her debut album was released Illusions ( Denon ), followed by Crosscurrents 1987. After several successful albums (including a duet with Herbie Hancock ) began in 1989 to Eliane Elias Plays Jobim also to sing what she is doing successfully since then also. Since their first records under his own name is clearly their profile based on entirely independent arrangements of standards. In 1994 she took part in Joe Henderson's Double Rainbow Jobim Tribute Album: With The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim.
She is married to bassist Marc Johnson, with whom she also plays in his own trio.
An album of Bob Brookmeyer with their compositions ( Impulsive! ), played by the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra was nominated for a Grammy in 2001.