Eliane Elias: Light My Fire – review

(Concord) This album from São Paulo's Eliane Elias is more orthodox than Emily Saunders's, but it's delivered with effortless musicality and idiomatic variety. Elias has dominated this territory since the 1980s as a vocalist and a postbop pianist. There are plenty of guests, including Elias's former husband Randy Brecker on trumpet and a vivacious Gilberto Gil. Gil appears on the conversational, vigorous Aquele Abraco (a reflection on his and Caetano Veloso's imprisonment by Brazil's military r...

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