Brazilian native pianist/singer/composer Eliane Elias brings her Trio to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola for five nights. Featuring Eliane Elias, piano/vocals; Marc Johnson, bass; Rafael Barata, drums. Elias is known for her distinctive and immediately recognizable musical style which blends her Brazilian roots, her sensuous, alluring voice with her impressive instrumental jazz, classical and compositional skills.

More info can about Elias can be found on her website.

Eliane’s new album Bossa Nova Stories was released this past summer in Japan and Europe. It debuted at #1 on the French Charts and remained #1 for three consecutive weeks. It was also the #1 Best Selling Jazz Vocal Album in Japan, May-June 2008 (Swing Journal). The CD is a celebration to the 50th Anniversary of the Bossa Nova and features her vocals accompanied by a stellar rhythm section and strings recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London.

As a guest artist she has appeared on performances and recordings with Joe Henderson, James Taylor, Michael Franks, Mingus Dynasty, Andy Summers, the Grammy winning Brecker Bros’ Out of the Loop, Earl Klugh, Toots Thielemans’ The Brasil Project, Ivan Lins, Denyce Graves, Steps Ahead, Calle 54, and Marc Johnson’s Shades of Jade on ECM Records, an instrumental recording she co-produced and contributed many of her own original compositions. Shades of Jade received the Danish Music Award as Best Foreign Release in March 2006.

Ms.Elias was featured in the Thelonious Monk Institute’s televised Second Annual “Celebration of America’s Music” at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, four times on Marion McPartland’s NPR “Piano Jazz”; the JVC Festival with Sting, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Caetano Veloso at Lincoln Center in New York, the televised Piano Grand, a Gala celebration for the 300th Anniversary of the piano in Washington DC. hosted by Billy Joel, and the BBC Jazz Orchestra to name a few.

Ticket Cost:
$20.00-$35.00 plus $10.00 minimum

More information about Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola can be found here.

Location:
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Jazz at Lincoln Center
33 West 60 Street, Floor 11
New York, NY 10023
www.jalc.org

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