This song is beautifully sung by Eliane accompanied by guitarist Teixeira, drummer Celso de Almeida and bassist/co-producer Marc Johnson.Įliane delivers a duo setting of Dorival Caymmi’s tunes in the track titled “Bahia Medley.” Though born in São Paulo, she says she’s always had a love affair with Bahia, where “some great songwriters came from and where the people are generally calmer, more laid back.” The album cover photo was taken in Bahia. Another of Eliane’s favourites is the melody-rich “Marina,” composed by celebrated Brazilian musician Dorival Caymmi. She opens the album romantically with a gently swinging take on the Carlos Lyra-Moraes song “Você e Eu” (“You and I”). On Quietude, Eliane states the material she chose to record owes less to her relationship with the composers and more to her relationship with the songs themselves. In her solo career, she dedicated two albums to him, both as a vocalist and pianist. She enjoyed a special relationship with Jobim. A child piano prodigy, she broke into the performing world at age 17 by touring with Vinicius de Moraes. In many ways, Eliane’s embrace of these Brazilian compositions ranging from legends Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim to Dorival Caymmi and Roberto Carlos marks an expressive return to home. “I’m glad that I had saved this previously unreleased recording of ‘Tim-Tim Por Tim-Tim” and that Oscar’s beautiful playing is included in this guitar-centric album.” And then there’s her longtime colleague, the great guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves, who passed away in 2013. She also includes the guitarist Lula Galvão who’s considered to be the current master of Brazilian acoustic guitar. This album makes me feel good, at peace and relaxed and I hope that listeners feel the same,” she says.Įliane enlists three marvellous guitarists for Quietude, including Marcus Teixeira who has been recording with her since her GRAMMY-winning 2015 album Made in Brazil. “I like to make music that I personally would like to hear. The vocalist-guitarist duo brings the authentic tradition, but in a very personal and expressive way through Eliane’s harmonic approach as revealed in these arrangements. The piano takes a lower profile with her intoxicating, intimate singing prevailing often with acoustic guitar support in a swinging bossa nova sensibility. How befitting today’s nomination falls on the same day of the release of her 2nd single “Você e Eu (You and I),” from her highly-anticipated new bossa nova album Quietude coming out on Candid Records October 14th.Ī showcase of Eliane’s sensuous Portuguese vocals, Elias returns to her Brazilian roots on Quietude. “Thank you! Congratulations to all fellow nominees!” “I’m honoured and thrilled to receive a Latin GRAMMY ® nomination for Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album of the Year with my dear colleagues Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés,“ stated Eliane. "Stephanie is a quiet girl, but very strong inside," says her instructor.Today, internationally celebrated virtuoso pianist, vocalist, composer and arranger Eliane Elias received a 2022 LATIN GRAMMY® nomination for Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album for MIRROR MIRROR, her masterpiece GRAMMY® winning piano duets album with Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés. "She doesn't speak much in lessons." With her years of experience in teaching young children, Fiorito found the way to reach Stephanie - by engaging her in story-telling. To learn the three-movement piano concerto by composer Nicolai Silvansky, Fiorito said that she told Stephanie "to go home and tell a story while the music is moving, then write the story down on paper." "I needed to reach her soul," says the instructor. "She made a wonderful story for the concerto. It's about a bunny rabbit that wanted to be in the woods and gets lost. The mother goes to look for him and finds him. So, each part of the music she was telling herself the story, and at the concert she played the music through in 7 to 8 minutes."įiorito is now teaching Stephanie Chopin's Polonaise. "It's very loving, caring, feeling music because the music is all about love," she says. "This is the problem with small children who are getting advanced in technique - we are forced to give them pieces that are above their emotional level. I have to communicate with her in a way that she understands," the instructor adds.Ĭhang says of Fiorito, "Her teaching has led my daughter into the world of classical music, weaving Bach and Mozart into her dreams. We are very lucky to find a teacher like her for Stephanie."īut there are physical challenges for such a little girl playing such big music. There's the footstool to support her feet to reach the raised pedals.
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