Made in Brazil is a 2015 studio album by Brazilian jazz pianist Eliane Elias and the first of her albums in thirty years to be recorded in her home country, Brazil. The album earned Elias a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album

Eliane Elias arrived in New York as a jazz prodigy ready to take on the world she knew from listening to records in her native Sao Paulo. And she did. The first female instrumentalist to make the cover of Downbeat magazine, and a five-time Grammy nominee, Elias was signed to Blue Note Records early in her career and now records on Concord. Her last album, 2013's Chet Baker tribute I Thought About You, went to no. 4 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. Why now, and why not before? I haven´t made an album in Brazil since I moved to New York in 1981. I was playing jazz, and then with the years I started bringing more Brazilian music into the recordings. I had musicians I worked with here like Oscar Castro-Neves. After Oscar passed away, I was on a trip to Brazil, and I said it would be really great to do an album here in my hometown, in Sao Paulo. I wrote all the material there.

Producer – Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson (2), Steve Rodby. Recorded By – Rodrigo de Castro Lopes. Recorded By – Bryan Pugh, Dave Stoller, Steve Rodby. Take 6 appears courtesy of Take 6 Records, Inc. Ed Motta appears courtesy of Dwitza Music Amanda Brecker appears courtesy of Universal Japan Marc Johnson appears courtesy of ECM Records.

Album · 2015 · 12 Songs. Eliane Elias, Bob Brookmeyer & The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra.

If you've never been to Brazil, consider Eliane Elias as a goodwill ambassador with Made In Brazil. It is a triumphant return for the pianist/vocalist to her native land to record her first album there since relocating to the United States in 1981. There is a delicacy to how Elias chooses and approaches the material. There is no genuflecting to pop music as there was on Light My Fire (Concord, 2011).

Eliane Elias (Portuguese: ; born 19 March 1960) is a Brazilian jazz pianist, singer, composer and arranger. She has won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album (2016) and the Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album (2017). Multi-Grammy Award-winning artist and artist on several worldwide jazz and Brazilian music charts, Eliane Elias was born in São Paulo. She started studying piano at age seven, and at age twelve was transcribing solos from jazz masters

In terms of material, Made in Brazil contains six Elias originals plus two Ary Barroso standards, two Roberto Menescal chestnuts, and two Antônio Carlos Jobim world-renowned gems. Elias, who did all the arrangements for the basic tracks, said that she purposely wanted Made in Brazil to incorporate three generations of Brazilian composers. But it s not a retro record, she clarifies. I first heard samples of the songs on this album as part of an NPR radio interview with Eliane Elias. The composition, production, instrumentation and vocals immediately struck me as being warm and very mellow while at the same time being energetic.

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Made in Brazil contains six Elias originals plus two Ary Barroso standards, two Roberto Menescal chestnuts, and two Antônio Carlos Jobim gems. But it’s not a retro record, she clarifies. It’s very contemporary yet with the tradition and authenticity of Brazil; it’s music of the world with Brazilian DNA. ‘Brasil,’ composed in 1939, is a Brazilian anthem, enthuses Elias  . It’s high time more people appreciated her exceptional talent and this album may just help do that. Eliane Elias’s previous album on this site. Related Topics:Brazil Eliane Elias Jazz.