Around the City

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All Music Guide - Jeff Tamarkin
Eliane Elias has moved further and further into mainstream pop in recent years, and Around the City continues that course. Having begun as a member of the jazz ensemble Steps Ahead, she ventured tentatively into solo recordings in the late '80s, maintaining her solid commitment to jazz while never failing to bridge her adventurous tendencies with the Brazilian traditions that were her birthright. On recent albums she's been redefining herself, shifting from a role as a strictly instrumental musician to building a rep as a vocalist who (singing in both English and Portuguese) accompanies herself on piano and occasionally lets loose with a startling, stunning solo. Jazz and...
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All Music Guide - Jeff Tamarkin
Eliane Elias has moved further and further into mainstream pop in recent years, and Around the City continues that course. Having begun as a member of the jazz ensemble Steps Ahead, she ventured tentatively into solo recordings in the late '80s, maintaining her solid commitment to jazz while never failing to bridge her adventurous tendencies with the Brazilian traditions that were her birthright. On recent albums she's been redefining herself, shifting from a role as a strictly instrumental musician to building a rep as a vocalist who (singing in both English and Portuguese) accompanies herself on piano and occasionally lets loose with a startling, stunning solo. Jazz and Brazil still figure largely into the makeup of her music ("Slide Show," "Chiclete Com Banana"), but sometimes just barely. Elias radically reinterprets Bob Marley's "Jammin'" as a nearly unrecognizable dance tune here, but she reclaims Beck's "Tropicalia" for Brazil -- a natural for Elias to cover, her take is faithful to the original's structure and brings to it a samba touch that Beck could only approximate. Her cover of Tito Puente's (by way of Santana) "Oye Como Va," on the other hand, sticks to the blueprint. Elias is writing more these days, too, to mixed results. "We're So Good," co-penned with co-producer Lester Mendez and songwriter Lauren Christy, sits firmly in Norah Jones territory, waiting for radio to discover it, while the album's two closing numbers, "Another Day" and "Segredos (Secrets), Pt. 2," both written by Elias solo, exude a melancholy bluesiness that confirms her growing talent as a cabaret-style singer/songwriter while leaving the listener with another hint that this artist is undergoing a continuing transformation.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 6/7/2006
  • Label: Tombstone Records
  • EAN: 4988017639962
  • Catalog Number: 31042

Album Credits

Performance Credits
Eliane Elias Primary Artist, Synthesizer, Piano, Hammond Organ, Vocals, fender rhodes, Wurlitzer
Dave Valentin Flute
Paulinho Braga Drums
Randy Brecker Trumpet
Paulinho Da Costa Percussion
Gene Lake Drums
Andres Levin Guitar
Vicente Amigo Acoustic Guitar
Amanda Elias Brecker Hand Clapping
Oscar Castro Acoustic Guitar
Adam Rodgers Guitar
Gilmar Gomes Percussion
Technical Credits
Bob Marley Composer
Dorival Caymmi Composer
Tito Puente Composer
Marc Johnson Audio Production
Buddy Johnson Composer
Lauren Christy Composer
Greg Calbi Mastering
Eliane Elias Composer, Producer
Joe Ferla Engineer
Andres Levin Composer, Producer, Audio Production
Lester Mendez Composer, Producer, Audio Production, Instrumentation
Almira Castilho Composer
Josh Wilbur Engineer
Joe Wohlmuth Engineer
Stephen Ferrera Executive Producer
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