I just bought the new Eliane Elias CD " Around the City".Being a fan of brazilian music after living 3 years in Sao Paulo 22 years ago, I was looking for some Ivan Lins records and I came across Eliane "Dreamer" CD, which is excellent. I went to Tower Records yesterday to get the new Metheny/Meldhau CD, and I came across this new Eliane's work. I can't stop listening to it !!!!, especially tracks 3 and 5. The sound quality is very good. She's joined by some outstanding musicians like Marc Johnson, Randy Brecker, Paulinho da Costa, Vicente Amigo (one of Pat Metheny's favorite) among other well renowned artists. The CD contains a whole bunch of different musicals styles, some bossa-nova (Tropicalia), pop (Around the City), flamenco (Silde Show) even a nice version of "Oye como va". I highly recommend this CD, and all others Eliane Elias works. She'll probably remind some of you of Diana Krall. Enjoy it!!!.
