Dreamer

Eliane Elias
Label: RCA
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Audio CD
Release date:4th May 2004

Studio ^{Audio CD}	$6.29

Studio ^{Audio CD}

$6.29

Track Listing

1. Call Me
2. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
3. Photograph (Fotografia)
4. Movin' Me On
5. So Nice (Samba de VerÃ£o)
6. That's All
7. Tangerine
8. Dreamer (Vivo Sonhando)
9. Time Alone
10. Doralice
11. House Is Not a Home

Album Description

Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. BMG. 2008.

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On Dreamer, SÃ£o Paulo-born, Manhattan-based pianist Eliane Elias performs bossa novas and brush-stroked ballads by North and South American composers from Johnny Mercer to Antonio Carlos Jobim. This project is a sort of musical homecoming for Elias, who once worked with bossa nova pioneer Vinicius de Moraes. Elias's pretty pianisms complement her breathy Portuguese/English contralto, especially on the '60s hit "Call Me," "Photograph (Fotografia)," and "So Nice (Samba de VerÃ£o)." Elias's two compositions, "Movin' Me On" and "Time Alone," can be considered smooth-jazz-friendly, but the Bahia bounce of "Doralice"--where Elias quotes Stan Getz's well-known tenor solo--and her instrumental rendering of Burt Bacharach's "A House Is Not a Home" are highlights of this masterpiece of soft syncopation. Rob Mathes's elegant, Claus Ogerman-style string arrangements enhance the mood. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

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