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| | Sings Jobim | | | Music Artist : | | Eliane Elias | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Blue Note Records | | Release Date : | | 1998-07-28 | | Store Price : | | $11.94 | | Artistopia's Price: $10.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Girl from Ipanema
2. One Note Samba
3. Jazz 'n' Samba
4. She's a Carioca
5. Looks Like December
6. Desafinado
7. Falando de Amor
8. Song of the Jet (Samba Do Avião)
9. Felicidade
10. For All of My Life
11. How Insensitive
12. Forgetting You
13. Pois É
14. Once I Loved
15. Modinha
16. Caminhos Cruzados
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 A whisper in your ear
Submitted on: 2009-02-23 |
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This is a superb interpretation of Jobim's work. Most everything is done in her quiet, breathy soft-spoken singing style. And although her singing is not perfect, her emotion and mood is just perfect. Listening to her sing on headphones, "Once I loved" and "How insensitive" transport you to a Sao Paolo dusk, as a beautiful woman whispers in your ear, telling you a story, and occasionally brushing her lush lips on the edge of your ear. It makes you want to turn your head and find out how lush those lips are.
Its that good. |
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 Smoky, Masterful
Submitted on: 2008-06-05 |
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Elaine Elias redoes Jobim SO WELL. Just the thing to play when you're a bit down or having dinner with your baby, and every song sounds fresh every time you play it. And the piano playing is sublime.
GET THIS ALBUM. |
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Pianist? YES! Singer? --HARDLY!
Submitted on: 2007-10-29 |
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Whoever told Ms. Elias that she should sing MUST have been pulling
her lovely leg. While no one who knows music, esp. jazz, would
question her instrumental chops, singing should be left to those
whose years of training and dues-paying performance work has
resulted in audience-worthy renditions of great and memorable
tunes.
Hasn't anyone noticed that the American Idol wannabe's, when they
flunk their auditions, will argue tooth-and-nail that they are
"great singers"? They don't have the talent to become recorded
singers. Neither does Ms. Elias, despite her pianistic expertise. |
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 That annoying little buzz . . .
Submitted on: 2007-03-16 |
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| Elias' strength here--as in all her albums--is her keyboard work; very few match her command of the instrument, her intensity, fluency and arranging of the Jobim songbook. Notwithstanding the superb blending with her accompanists, her vocals are the most disappointing. Were this a purely instrumental CD, this would be an easy A+. Sounding more tentative than confident, the vocals are barely audible, and at times, incoherent, making this a frustrating listen for me--like the gnats that ruin an otherwise marvelous summer picnic, I keep swatting at the vocals! The two exceptions being the guitar/vocal interplay with Castro-Neves on "Falando de Amor" and "One Note Samba." Otherwise, musicianship is what carries the album: fine accompaniment, great arrangements, forgettable vocals! |
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Exellent music to make love by...
Submitted on: 2006-01-03 |
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| This is a romantic album! Elias' vocals are smooth, and her piano playign skills are second to none on a jazz level. These are fine verisons of bossa novas classics. Her piano and vocals both swing, yet so gently. Great music! |
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