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ELIANE ELIAS

Love Stories

Concord Jazz

Taking in the recent loss of João Gilberto, trying to put his pervasive influence and incalculable contributions into perspective, seems just a little bit. The São Paulo-reared pianist, vocalist, and composer includes only one song associated with the bossa nova patriarch, Roberto Menescal and Ronaldo Bôscoli’s “O Barquinho (Little Boat),” but her 27th album is an extended riff on the sumptuously becalmed orchestral bossa sound forged by arranger Claus Ogerman on 1967’s epochal and Gilberto’s 1977 masterpiece . Working most mostly in English, Elias seems to sigh rather than sing.

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